Engineering Group Manager, Chassis Controls

Description

The Role:

Our Vehicle Mechatronic Embedded Controls (VMEC) team within GM’s Software and Services organization is responsible for developing, deploying, and releasing control software and calibrations that truly control the whole vehicle. Be it internal combustion engines, hybridized drive units & transmissions, high voltage batteries, or chassis & thermal management, the exciting challenge of inventing new methods to control the world’s best mechatronic systems is never ending.
We currently have multiple opportunities in the Chassis Controls organization within VMEC to be an Engineering Group Manager leading a team of engineers responsible to execute a specific area of embedded development including control software design, development and deployment, or system calibration, system test and validation. These teams work cross functionally with product, systems, and program teams to ensure all pieces come together to successfully release quality products on time to support our broad vehicle product portfolio.

In this people leader role, as well as having responsibilities for specific areas of technology, you will help develop and lead strategic action plans to support business goals for our inclusive future as we reinvent ourselves from auto manufacturer to a tech company ! The heart of this position is to embrace agile practices that will enable you to grow your team's capability for the future with a focus on speed, quality, and safety. You will be using the agile concepts to empower your team to innovate and grow technology.

Your technical leadership will be at the strategic direction level with responsibilities for execution. You will help develop and lead strategic action plans to support business goals for our inclusive future with industry-leading chassis controls performance that elevate our customer’s driving experience.
Are you ready to identify and lead staffing initiatives for a work team, conduct regularly scheduled group meetings, communicate GM policies and procedures, leadership and safety messages, and craft specific to function communication on vision and strategy ? Are you in? #EVerybodyIn. #IWorkForGM

What You’ll do:

Enable self-organizing, self-managing teams to deliver product on-time with quality executions in an agile environment.

Help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement

Implement and support agile principles and practices, identifying and eliminating impediments, and facilitating flow

Mentor, coach, and develop employees and their careers

Establish and monitor budget for responsible activities

Execute resource planning for required activities

Model and foster GM's Core Values and Winning Behaviors

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or a related technical degree

Minimum of 7 years of professional engineering/technical experience

Minimum of 5 years of engineering experience related to embedded control system, calibration, related hardware, and/or safety critical system development

Demonstrated technical background in chassis controls and/or vehicle dynamics

Demonstrated results in successful project execution

Excellent multi-functional communication and leadership skills - able to get multiple teams moving in the same direction

Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity while driving timely decision making

Possess a valid driver’s license and the ability to operate test vehicles

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Skills)

Master of Science in Engineering and/or Master of Business Administration

Master of Science in Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, Mechatronic, Aerospace, Systems or Software Engineering with emphasis in Controls or Robotics

Experience in chassis controls development

Leadership experience developing or utilizing industry standards

Leadership experience in safety compliance of embedded systems

Leadership of teams of engineers responsible for developing or testing embedded control systems or related hardware in an agile environment

Demonstrated ability to: achieve results through effective teamwork, lead numerous projects with different focal areas to successful completion, and manage and measure work through metrics, data, and results

Experience managing a global team that is geographically dispersed

Working knowledge of embedded controls development tool set – (e.g. IBM Rational Tool Suite, Jira/Jama, Git ecosystem, MATLAB-Simulink, ETAS)

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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