General Motors

Supplier Quality Engineer - Capacity and Launch Specialist

General Motors • $90K — $110K *
Warren, MI 48089In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years in advanced manufacturing, industrial engineering, quality or engineering
  • Strong understanding of capacity calculation, installation, and validation
  • Experience troubleshooting line performance and launch execution
  • Ability to develop executable recovery plans with suppliers
  • Demonstrated project management skills including issue tracking
  • Strong communication skills for technical concepts

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a subject matter expert on supplier capacity and launch execution
  • Visit suppliers to identify gaps and build corrective action plans
  • Assess alignment of manufacturing capacity with production requirements
  • Analyze various aspects of supplier capacity and performance
  • Support run-at-rate preparation and execution for suppliers
  • Educate and coach SQEs on capacity fundamentals
  • Act as a technical resource for the SQE organization
  • Manage priorities and documentation across multiple supplier issues

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with in-office requirement three times a week
  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Access to a network of experienced peers and professionals in manufacturing
  • Hands-on problem-solving experience with diverse suppliers
Full Job Description
Job Description

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren, Michigan three times per week, at minimum.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced supplier-facing manufacturing expert to support supplier capacity readiness, run-at-rate execution, and practical problem solving across the supply base. This is an individual contributor role for someone who understands how manufacturing capacity is planned, installed, launched, and validated in the real world, and who can use that experience to help suppliers recover, improve, and succeed.

This person will serve as a consultant and technical expert to our Supplier Quality team. They will work directly with suppliers that are experiencing capacity or launch challenges, help identify detailed root causes and resolutions, and support successful run-at-rate execution. They will also help strengthen the technical capability of our SQEs by sharing practical knowledge, coaching on capacity fundamentals, and serving as a trusted resource across the team. This role requires strong project management discipline, technical credibility, and the ability to step into a variety of situations with minimal direction.

What You'll Do
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on supplier capacity planning, line installation, launch execution, and run-at-rate readiness
  • Visit suppliers with capacity or execution issues and work hands-on with them to identify detailed gaps, build corrective actions, and drive practical resolution plans
  • Assess whether installed manufacturing capacity aligns with awarded volumes, process assumptions, and production requirements
  • Analyze supplier capacity calculations, line rates, station performance, constraints, labor assumptions, and installed equipment readiness
  • Support suppliers through run-at-rate preparation and execution, including issue identification, containment, recovery planning, and follow-through to closure
  • Educate and coach SQEs on how capacity is calculated, validated, installed, launched, and sustained
  • Act as a technical resource for the broader SQE organization on capacity planning, throughput risk, and supplier manufacturing execution
  • Provide backfill support for other team members as needed across supplier-facing responsibilities
  • Support incoming calls and issue triage related to SQMS and team support activities; direct system knowledge is not required on day one and can be learned
  • Use sound project management practices to organize work, manage priorities, document actions, and drive closure across multiple supplier issues at once


Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years in advanced manufacturing, industrial engineering, quality or engineering or related field
  • Strong working knowledge of how capacity is calculated, justified, installed, launched, and validated in production environments
  • Experience troubleshooting line performance, bottlenecks, staffing assumptions, equipment readiness, throughput constraints, and launch execution issues
  • Ability to work directly with suppliers to develop detailed, credible, and executable recovery plans
  • Demonstrated project management skills, including follow-up, coordination, issue tracking, timing discipline, and action closure
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical manufacturing concepts to both experts and non-experts


What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Significant experience in supplier-facing manufacturing, industrial engineering, advanced manufacturing, launch, or operations roles within automotive or a comparable high-volume manufacturing environment
  • Direct experience helping a supplier or manufacturing operation prepare for and pass run-at-rates
  • Experience with major automotive OEM or Tier 1 supplier launches
  • Background in industrial engineering, advanced manufacturing engineering, launch engineering, or technical project leadership
  • Experience with line balancing, cycle time analysis, labor modeling, equipment integration, and manufacturing readiness reviews
  • Experience training, coaching, or mentoring others on manufacturing capacity and launch execution topics
  • Familiarity with supplier quality processes and manufacturing risk evaluation
  • Experience supporting plant, supplier, or launch issue escalations in fast-paced environments


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

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General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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Size
157,000 employees
Market Cap
$46.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1908
5 Year Trend
-3.2%
Revenue
$122.4 billion
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