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LAYIQ - Staff Lead Rear Seat Structures Engineer at General Motors

Lead the design development and integration of highly complex and large scope programs with multiple seat structure configurations.
Coordinate integration and tradeoffs between seat structures and seat systems to optimize the overall enterprise cost while ensuring program requirements are achieved
Provide technical leadership for overall seat structures and seat assembly performance and associated tradeoffs for comfort, crash worthiness, cost, mass, etc.
Identify and lead introduction of innovative core products, coordinate Advanced Technical Work and exploratory projects
Driving Lessons Learned behavior of the team to be responsible for their own knowledge management
Coordinate SI engineers, internal technical resources, vehicle program teams, purchasing, design staff on design solutions while ensuring alignment to program and SMT objectives.
Lead the development and maintenance of the program seat CCC and CMS seat structures, integration in seat system and integration DFMEAs
Ensure virtual validation successfully completed before tooling kick off
Coordinate, track, manage and optimize enterprise piece and tooling costs for a complex large scope seat development activity
Lead focused problem-solving efforts on significant cost/quality/warranty issues on seat programs
Leverage program specific learnings to expand the overall GM seat system knowledge base by demonstrating outstanding problem-solving skills and knowledge management
Demonstrate exemplary commitment to customer focused product development
Utilize DFSS methodologies to insure robust design development and trade off management.
Responsible for working with the team in closing issues in Problem Resolution and Tracking System to support programs milestones
Support DRE’s and Technical Specialists in: Creating interface control documents
Supplier prequalification, tooling kick off and launch support
Problem Solving and Warranty reduction
Prevent Repeat Defects
Components Strategy Planning and Competitiveness
Commodity Quality Chain process
Updating and maintaining best practice
Grow technical capability of component DRE’s by coaching and mentoring DFSS and OPEX projects.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications): Bachelor of Science – Engineering
Extensive experience in seat structures and system development with demonstrated levels of outstanding performance in communication, organizational and planning capabilities.
Experience in building strong relationships through strategic project work with regional and global engineering partners.
Demonstrated sub system expertise in structures, foam, trim covers, plastic components, head restraints, lumbar systems, heat and heat/vent/cool systems, occupant detection systems, airbag deployment technologies, CLAs, haptic systems, etc.
Detailed knowledge of seat performance requirements including regulations and best practices
Demonstrated early product development to launch expertise and capability
Demonstrated ability to coach and lead internal and external resources
Thorough understanding of seat system requirements and trade offs
Excellent cross-functional communication skills – able to build effective coalitions.
Ability to break down complex technical issues into simple terms for multiple audiences
Demonstrated ability to “deal with ambiguity” while driving timely decision making toward issue resolution
Ability to navigate in the global environment, understanding diversity, equity and inclusion

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