Cost Optimization Engineer

About the Role

As General Motors continues to expand its portfolio towards its Zero, Zero, Zero vision, ensuring vehicle profitability is paramount. The Cost Optimization Engineer will focus on all aspects of cost reduction for propulsion subsystems. This role involves leadership, coordination, and management of all Propulsion Engineering cost reduction ideas through conceptualization, feasibility assessment, business case development, and execution. It requires a high level of independent judgment, initiative, creativity, and organization. Collaboration with key internal cross-functional peers is essential, including product engineering, purchasing and supply chain, vehicle and propulsion program teams, global joint venture partners in China, and supplier partners.

This position offers regular interaction with technical experts and leadership across various functions, exposure to the entire portfolio of next-generation vehicle programs, and the opportunity to work with leading-edge automotive experts and technologies.

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (expected to report to the office three times per week or other frequency dictated by the business).

Key Responsibilities

• Work with Benchmarking, ECT’s, Vertical Teams, and suppliers to generate the cost reduction and profitability idea pipeline.
• Lead cost reduction workshops.
• Streamline idea vetting, business case development, and determination of implementation timing.
• Seek appropriate support, escalate implementation roadblocks, and monitor execution to the plan.
• Support ECT meetings for relevant commodities.
• Track and report performance to targets to the leadership team.
• Occasional travel to supplier facilities for enhanced collaboration and support of engineering / purchasing teams.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Propulsion subsystems
• Cost reduction
• Profitability
• Conceptualization
• Feasibility assessment
• Business case development
• Execution
• Independent judgment
• Initiative
• Creativity
• Organization
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Product engineering
• Purchasing and supply chain
• Vehicle and propulsion program teams
• Global joint venture partners
• Supplier partners
• Technical experts
• Leadership
• Benchmarking
• ECT’s
• Vertical Teams

Qualifications

The text does not explicitly list formal qualifications, but implies a need for expertise in the areas mentioned in "Requirements & Tech Stack".

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.

Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.