Plant Vehicle Engineer, SUV General Assembly

Warsaw, Indiana

We are 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, ensuring 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Review and support production documentation, including work instructions, inspection standards, quality alerts, repair procedures, and related process documentation.
• Support issue tracking, change management, quality systems, deviation/waiver processes, containment documentation, and production break point control.
• Drive continuous improvement actions that reduce defects, improve first‑time quality, minimize rework, and strengthen production robustness for SUV configurations.

• Improve first‑time quality for Open Air, Fastback, and Squareback SUV configurations.
• Reduce rework, repair loops, and recurring production issues across structure, restraints, interior, and exterior SUV content.
• Improve launch readiness through effective build support, issue tracking, station readiness, and configuration‑specific closure discipline.
• Improve containment effectiveness and accelerate issue resolution through clear triage, documentation, breakpoints, and validation.
• Strengthen feedback loops between the plant, Design & Release Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Production,…