Lead Industrial Engineer

Overview

Lead Industrial Engineering activities and serve as a subject matter expert for manufacturing processes and engineering tools, partnering with global plant and engineering teams to improve safety, quality, delivery, productivity, cost, and process standardization.

What you'll do

• Lead process planning, line balancing, work combination analysis, time studies, ergonomics assessments, and shop-floor process improvements.
• Support new product launches, plant expansions, assembly line setup, and existing-plant optimization.
• Develop and standardize industrial engineering documents, including standardized work, job element sheets, work combination tables, time studies, process schematics, and material and information flow diagrams.
• Create and maintain manufacturing layouts, bills of material, bills of process, bills of equipment, and related process documentation.
• Analyze data, prepare reports, and communicate recommendations to engineering, manufacturing, and leadership teams.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for Industrial Engineering tools and manufacturing applications, including user support, access coordination, issue resolution, system enhancements, and knowledge management.
• Lead continuous improvement, productivity, cost-reduction, automation, and waste-reduction initiatives; guide macros and digital solutions that improve efficiency.
• Facilitate cross-functional reviews, drive critical issues to closure, and represent business needs in technology and process initiatives.
• Coach and develop engineers through training, mentoring, technical guidance, and capability-building plans.
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards, operating procedures, labor requirements, and site policies.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Automotive, or Production Engineering.
• 10+ years of Industrial Engineering experience, preferably in automotive manufacturing.
• Experience with shop-floor operations, line balancing, takt-time changes, new product development, plant expansion, and manufacturing process planning.
• Working knowledge of lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, ergonomics, structured problem solving, and continuous improvement.
• Experience with manufacturing planning, product lifecycle management, manufacturing execution, or related engineering systems.
• Proficiency with engineering and productivity software, data analysis, and VBA-based automation.
• Technical leadership and subject matter expertise.
• Project planning, estimation, reporting, and governance.
• Data-driven problem solving and decision-making.
• Change leadership, continuous improvement, and innovation.
• Stakeholder management and communication across global teams.
• Coaching, mentoring, collaboration, and influencing.
• Strategic planning, workload management, and independent execution.

Nice to have

• Postgraduate qualification in Industrial Engineering.
• Knowledge of electric vehicle manufacturing, Industry 4.0, design for manufacturing and assembly, failure mode and effects analysis, and production routing.
• Leading cross-functional teams in a unionized manufacturing environment.
• Delivering standardized solutions across multiple plants or regions.
• Achieving measurable improvements in productivity, cost, process automation, or operational excellence.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Work arrangement: Hybrid, reporting to the office four times per week or other frequency dictated by the business.
• General Motors does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.