Job Description
Work Arrangement
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. The successful candidate is expected to report to Warren, Michigan or Milford, Michigan three times per week, at minimum.
The Role
GM Defense (GMD) is a dynamic and growing organization within General Motors. Within GMD, the Integrated Product Support (IPS) organization is responsible for delivering aftersales and sustainment support to defense customers worldwide, ensuring customer satisfaction, mission readiness, and long term business growth.
The Service Engineering Lead, ISV (Infantry Squad Vehicle) is a people leader role with responsibility for leading a service engineering team supporting the GM Defense ISV program. This leader will have 4 to 7 direct reports and will be accountable for building team capability, setting priorities, establishing operating plans, owning service engineering process development, and delivering service engineering outcomes across service readiness, field issue resolution, design for serviceability, contract deliverables, and customer support execution.
This role will own service engineering process development for the ISV program and work cross functionally with production engineering and other stakeholders to ensure incoming production engineering data is complete, accurate, and available to support all required contract deliverables (CDRLs). The role will also own the customer relationship with U.S. Army customers, ensuring strong communication, responsiveness, issue resolution, and follow through throughout the product lifecycle.
This leader must be comfortable operating in ambiguity, moving with urgency, and making sound decisions across fast moving products and support environments. They will work across engineering, production engineering, program management, quality, supply chain, field support, and customer stakeholders to resolve issues, shape service strategy, ensure contract deliverables are met, and build a scalable support model for growing ISV vehicle populations in the field.
What You Will Do
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of 4 to 7 service and sustainment engineers supporting the GM Defense ISV program and related service engineering activities.
- Set team goals, roles, priorities, and execution plans aligned to annual objectives, product milestones, launch readiness, and customer commitments.
- Own talent outcomes for the team, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, development planning, succession planning, recognition, and employee engagement.
- Build and scale service engineering capability to support the GM Defense ISV program as vehicle deliveries increase and support requirements expand.
- Lead service strategy for the ISV program, with focus on readiness, maintainability, diagnostics, field supportability, and contract deliverables.
- Serve as the voice of service in product development forums, design reviews, architecture discussions, and change control processes, driving strong design for serviceability outcomes.
- Create and oversee operational plans for service engineering process development and ISV activities including:
- Service parts identification and release
- Technical manuals and service procedures
- Diagnostics, service tools, and service programming
- Field issue triage, escalation, and corrective action coordination
- Technical guidance and service communications
- Maintainability and supportability requirements
- Determine resource needs, assign work across the team, remove roadblocks, and ensure the team is focused on the highest impact deliverables.
- Lead cross functional resolution of complex technical, quality, reliability, and readiness issues, especially in fast moving and ambiguous environments.
- Use data, field feedback, warranty trends, test findings, and customer insights to identify emerging risks and prioritize corrective actions.
- Partner with product engineering, production engineering, quality, suppliers, program management, and functional leadership to ensure durable solutions, complete incoming data, and strong field performance.
- Provide clear, executive ready communication on risks, recommendations, progress, and recovery plans across multiple job areas.
- Act as the senior service engineering interface for internal leadership and the primary customer relationship owner for U.S. Army customers, building trust and ensuring strong responsiveness and follow through.
- Drive continuous improvement in service engineering processes, field support response, technical content quality, CDRL execution, and readiness execution.
- Foster a team culture grounded in accountability, inclusion, urgency, collaboration, and safe escalation of risks and concerns.
Your Skills and Abilities (Required Qualifications)
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Automotive Technology, or a related technical field.
- Demonstrated experience leading a technical team within a larger function and delivering results through others in a complex environment.
- People leadership experience with direct responsibility for hiring, coaching, performance management, employee development, and team results.
- Experience supporting military, government, or mission critical vehicle programs.
- Experience with integrated product support, serviceability of design, sustainment engineering, or field diagnostics in a defense or regulated environment.
- Experience supporting launch and service readiness for new vehicle platforms or related variants.
- Experience with service engineering process development, technical data integration, service strategies, and support solutions for military or mission critical vehicle programs.
- Experience building or scaling technical teams and operating models in a growing business environment.
- Experience serving as a primary service engineering leader or escalation point for a product line, platform, or customer.
- Experience with technical publications, service documentation, diagnostics authoring, or service programming strategy.
- Experience working across suppliers, systems engineering, production engineering, quality, and functional leadership in a complex technical environment.
- Active Secret U.S. Security Clearance as of the first day of work.
Why This Role Matters
This role is critical to ensuring the GM Defense ISV program is supportable, maintainable, ready for the field, and able to meet required contract deliverables as the vehicle population grows. The Service Engineering Lead will shape both the team and the service engineering processes needed to support customer deliveries, strong field performance, and long term sustainment success. This leader will own the relationship with U.S. Army customers and coordinate across production engineering and other cross functional stakeholders to ensure required data flows into CDRL execution and customer support.
This position requires eligibility to access classified information at the Secret U.S. Security Clearance level for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. The successful candidate must have eligibility to access classified information at that level.
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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}.
The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
The position is subject to export control restrictions and requires the successful candidate to be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, asylee or refugee).
