P100854 Plant Vehicle Engineer, SUV General Assembly

Plant Vehicle Engineer, SUV General Assembly

Looking for a hands-on Plant Vehicle Engineer, SUV General Assembly to support General Assembly launch readiness, production quality, and continuous improvement for vehicle configurations released as Open Air, Fastback, and Squareback.

This role supports plant execution of SUV content across structure, restraints, interior, and exterior components, helping ensure each configuration can be built repeatedly to product intent in a manufacturing plant environment.

This role serves as the engineering link between the manufacturing plant, Design & Release Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Suppliers, Production, Safety, Vehicle Integration, Service, and other cross-functional teams. The position focuses less on new component design and more on protecting product intent in General Assembly, resolving production and integration issues, and improving build quality in production.

This role does not own production release of SUV content. It is responsible for identifying build and integration issues, supporting root cause analysis, protecting safety-critical and quality requirements, and driving plant-side issue resolution in partnership with Design & Release Engineering and the broader manufacturing organization.

Education and Experience:

• 5+ years of related automotive engineering, manufacturing engineering, launch, quality, plant vehicle engineering, General Assembly, vehicle integration, SUV, or similar experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or related technical field preferred; equivalent hands-on automotive launch, manufacturing, or product engineering experience will be considered.
• Experience supporting vehicle development and launch, with an understanding of the product lifecycle from concept through production ramp and mass production.
• Experience with General Assembly build execution, variant complexity, structure, restraints, interiors, exterior components, closures, sealing, roof systems, or SUV configurations preferred.

What You Get To Do:

SUV General Assembly Support:

• Support the launch and ongoing production of Open Air, Fastback, and Squareback SUV configurations in a General Assembly environment.
• Serve as the Plant Vehicle Engineering point of contact for SUV-related production and vehicle integration issues across structure, restraints, interior, and exterior components.
• Help ensure General Assembly processes maintain product design intent, safety requirements, quality standards, craftsmanship expectations, and configuration requirements.
• Support plant readiness for SUV content, station execution, build sequence, repair methods, inspection standards, and launch issue closure.

Production Issue Resolution:

• Investigate, diagnose, and resolve production issues related to SUV installation, fit/function, craftsmanship, sealing, water leaks, wind noise, squeaks/rattles, trim fit, roof/closure interfaces, second-row seating and restraints, fasteners, and component interfaces.
• Lead or support root cause analysis, containment, corrective action development, break point coordination, and validation of permanent fixes.
• Analyze production data, audit findings, repair trends, teardown feedback, supplier concerns, and plant feedback to identify risks, trends, and improvement opportunities.

Launch, Change & Cross-Functional Support:

• Partner with Design & Release Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Production, Suppliers, Safety, Vehicle Integration, and Service teams to resolve plant and vehicle-level concerns.
• Support engineering change implementation, prototype/pilot builds, break point coordination, plant readiness, issue tracking, containment, readiness reporting, and lessons learned.
• Participate in Design for Manufacturing and Assembly reviews, PFMEA input, control plan reviews, station readiness reviews, and related product/process improvement activities.

Documentation & Process Improvement:

• Review and support production documentation, including work instructions, inspection standards, quality alerts, repair procedures, and related process documentation.
• Support issue tracking, change management, quality…