Plant Vehicle Engineer - SUV General Assembly

About the role

My client is an innovative American automotive manufacturer focused on redefining affordable electric mobility. They are developing a new generation of purpose-built electric vehicles with an emphasis on simplicity, modular design, and customer customisation. They are looking for a Plant Vehicle Engineer - SUV General Assembly to join their expanding team on a Contract basis. The role will be based in Warsaw, Indiana USA.

Job Description

Our Client is 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.

Qualifications & Skills

• 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, interior.

Success Factors

• 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, Suppliers, and Service.