Engineering System Analyst – GM Defense

Job Description

Job Description Summary

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Global Technical Center Warren three times per week at minimum or other frequency dictated by the business.

GM Defense (GMD) is a dynamic and exciting growth opportunity within General Motors! Within GMD the Engineering Operations team is leading efforts to build engineering systems tools and processes which support our service of government customers across the GMD portfolio of products.

The Engineering System Analyst GM Defense supports this mission by designing and maintaining data reporting and application solutions that enable reliable visibility to schedule cost and readiness status across GM Defense programs. You will integrate data from multiple systems develop dashboards and reports and streamline key processes so teams can make faster evidence-based decisions in support of customer commitments.

The Engineering System Analyst GM Defense will collaborate with GMD-internal stakeholders including Engineering Engineering Ops and the Digital & Business Operations teams to design data flows build analytic assets and configure tools (e.g. Power BI SharePoint Power Apps/Power Automate) that reduce manual work and improve data quality and transparency.

What Youll Do:

• Engage with GM Defense stakeholders to understand operational challenges and define IT/analytics requirements that support program readiness cost management and schedule adherence.
• Design and implement data integrations and pipelines that connect information from engineering manufacturing supply chain and financial systems into trusted analytic datasets.
• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports that provide clear visibility to:
  • Bill of Material (BOM) quality
  • Production build schedule attainment
  • Material availability
  • Engineering and product configuration changes
  • Program milestone achievement
• Support BOM and configuration quality initiatives by designing data structures reports and workflows that highlight gaps before production lock points.
• Help identify and retire technical debt in legacy tools (e.g. Excel/Accessbased schedules local macros onprem reports) and migrate them to governed supportable platforms (Power BI SharePoint Power Apps/Power Automate).
• Implement and maintain access security and documentation in alignment with GM policies and GM Defense requirements.
• Produce clear technical and user documentation so that solutions can be supported by both IT and business teams.
• Provide ad hoc analysis and decision support (rootcause analysis scenario modeling metric deepdives) to support continuous improvement Kaizen events and leadership reviews.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science Data/Business Analytics or a related quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• Candidate must either be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen U.S. permanent resident asylee or refugee) or a non-U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required export control authorization.
• Demonstrated experience as a System Analyst BI Developer or similar role working with complex multisystem data.
• Advanced Proficiency with:
  • Python for scripting data transformation automation and advanced analytics.
  • Power Apps Power Automate and SharePoint solutions for workflow automation forms and lightweight applications.
  • SQL / Spark or similar querying languages for building and optimizing data pipelines.
  • Power BI (or comparable BI tools) for interactive dashboards and reports.
  • Databricks or similar data lake technologies for large scale data processing.
• Experience gathering and documenting business and technical requirements translating them into solution designs and user stories.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills including the ability to interpret trends identify data quality issues and develop pragmatic recommendations.
• Proven ability to work with crossfunctional and technical teams manage multiple priorities and deliver highquality work on agreed timelines.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills including documentation and presentation of complex information to nontechnical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Defense industry or government program experience
• Background working with manufacturing logistics or engineering data (e.g. BOMs build schedules material planning change management cost and labor plans).
• Prior involvement in continuous improvement / Kaizen projects focused on analytics or process digitization.

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