Seat Complete Tech Lead

General Motors • Warren, MI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role is categorized as hybrid. The selected candidate will be expected to work on-site at the Warren Tech Center at least three days per week, or as otherwise determined by the hiring leader. This role is not eligible for relocation assistance. At General Motors, our product teams are redefining mobility. Through a human-centered design process, we create vehicles and experiences that are designed not just to be seen, but to be felt. We’re turning today’s impossible into tomorrow’s standard —from breakthrough hardware and battery systems to intuitive design, intelligent software, and next-generation safety and entertainment features. Every day, our products move millions of people as we aim to make driving safer, smarter, and more connected, shaping the future of transportation on a global scale. About the Role: This position is a key role within the Seat Complete Team, it offers an exciting opportunity to coach/mentor a talented group of seat complete engineers. In addition to coaching and mentoring the team through challenging technical issues, the candidate will help develop future organizational vision and develop / implement tools. The candidate should be comfortable with ambiguity and be able to provide direction with incomplete information. A deep knowledge of seat development, integration & validation is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science - Engineering
• Extensive experience in seat system development with demonstrated levels of outstanding performance.
• Demonstrated sub system expertise in structures, foam, trim covers, head restraints, lumbar systems, heat and heat/vent/cool systems, occupant detection systems, airbag deployment technologies, CLAs, haptic systems, etc.
• Detailed knowledge of seat performance requirements including global regulatory requirements and design best practices.
• Demonstrated early product development to launch expertise and capability
• Demonstrated ability to coach and lead internal and external resources
• Thorough understanding of seat system requirements and trade offs
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills – able to build effective coalitions
• Ability to break down complex issues into understandable pieces
• Ability to explain technical issues in simple terms
• Demonstrated ability to “deal with ambiguity” while driving timely decision making toward issue resolution
• Demonstrated people leader skills to motivate and empower employees to enable optimized levels of performance and execution.
• Ability to manage a multitude of assignments, program deliverables and launches strategic with high levels of composure and effective implementation.
• Strong design and manufacturing background to coach and guide engineers in developing robust design solution from a product manufacturing/assembly standpoint.
• Experience in developing Design Best Practices / Lesson Learned to support 100% virtual validation
• Able to coach engineers in using our engineering tools (product design and Design for Manufacturing/Assembly tools) or able to identify new tools to support 100% virtual validation
• Leverage Benchmarking / voice of the customer to define best in class execution for our products
• Familiar with GD&T, DFMEAs, PFMEAs, KCDS

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree
• RED-X problem solving skills for subsystem and vehicle performance.
• DFSS Master BB

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and integration of highly complex and large scope program with multiple rows of seats with varying scope.
• Coordinate integration and tradeoff decisions between seat systems to optimize the overall seat enterprise cost while ensuring program requirements are achieved.
• Provide technical leadership for overall seat performance and associated tradeoffs for comfort, crashworthiness, SSTS performance, cost, mass, etc.
• Collaborate with supplier engineers, internal technical resources, vehicle program teams, purchasing, design studio on design solutions while ensuring alignment to program and SMT objectives.
• Lead the development and maintenance of the program seat system, seat components and integration DFMEAs.
• Coordinate, track, manage and optimize enterprise piece and tooling costs for a complex large scope seat development activity.
• Lead focused problem solving efforts on significant cost/quality/warranty issues on seat programs.
• Leverage program specific learnings to expand the overall GM seat system knowledge base by demonstrating outstanding problem solving skills and knowledge management
• Demonstrate exemplary commitment to customer focused product development
• Utilize DFSS methodologies to insure robust design development and trade off management.

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior