The Role: GM Defense is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Vehicle Performance Manager to join the engineering team . This role is critical to ensuring our products meet the performance and safety requirements of our global customers. We are looking for a dynamic leader who thrives in fast-paced environments, demonstrates initiative, and excels at working across cross-functional teams to deliver winning products. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with a “roll-up-the-sleeves” mentality and a passion for leading complex efforts from concept to product delivery. In this role you’ll guide, develop, and inspire a group of development and system safety engineers in the ambiguous and dynamic GM Defense spac e. What You’ll Do: Adapt GM vehicle development and system safety processes for defense projects Guide vehicle performance balance across integration groups to assure winning products Provide direction and prioritization in areas of System Safety, Energy, Vehicle Dynamics, NVH, Driveability and overall vehicle performance and ensure that integration is on time for p roject requirements Champion performance technology, system safety , and innovation execution Develop and maintain strong partnerships with VDDV , Vehicle Performance , and System Safety organization . Responsible for Vehicle Technical Specs and the Development and Validation to requirements. Lead Vehicle Development fleet usage and counts within annual budget allocation Estimate workload requirements for future projects and aligning resources to support execution Lead vehicle buy off rides with vehicle performance status and issue list Adhere to all safety precautions and requirements, and treat safety as the top priority during all work activities Provide vehicle performance and system safety execution communication to leadership as “Single Voice” for vehicle performance and system safety to Vehicle Chief Engineer. Support demonstration activities for customers, partners, and media Travel as