Controls Error Proofing Engineer

Job Description

The Error Proofing Engineer is an individual contributor role on the Standards team focused on developing maintaining and improving standardized error-proofing requirements templates and processes that support manufacturing operations across General Motors.

In this role you will help define common requirements support validation strategies improve reusable tools and documentation and provide technical guidance that enables plants and execution teams to implement robust error-proofing solutions. Your work will help prevent mis-builds improve manufacturing quality and support a strong customer experience.

What Youll Do

• Support the development and continuous improvement of error-proofing standards templates and common processes used across manufacturing operations

• Translate Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) and Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) requirements into standardized error-proofing requirements validation criteria templates and documentation for use across programs and plants

• Partner with Vision Engineering Controls Engineering Product Engineering Quality Manufacturing plant teams and external integrators to align standards and support deployment of standard error-proofing solutions

• Support development of Statement of Requirements (SOR) templates design standards controls alignment requirements and implementation guidance for error-proofing systems

• Create and maintain standard templates checklists master lists and documentation related to scanners vision systems human-machine interfaces (HMIs) programmable logic controllers (PLCs) challenge parts and attribute gages

• Maintain and improve standard work templates and supporting documentation used by plant and execution teams

• Provide technical support to plants and execution teams for interpretation and application of error-proofing standards including launch support and issue resolution as needed

• Contribute to validation planning audit readiness process improvement and sustained production support

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Controls Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Industrial Engineering or a related technical field

• 3 to 5 years of manufacturing experience in automotive or other high-volume production environments

• Strong PLC and HMI programming and troubleshooting experience with the ability to support controls-related issue resolution in plant environments

• Hands-on experience supporting plant launches startup activities or production issue resolution

• Working knowledge of error-proofing technologies such as machine vision systems barcode scanners sensors pick-to-light systems tethering solutions torque and tool interlocks and attribute gages

• Experience supporting PFMEA and DFMEA alignment SOR development validation planning and production launch execution

• Ability to work effectively with Product Engineering Quality Manufacturing Engineering Controls Engineering Vision Engineering plant teams and external supplier or integrator partners

• Strong troubleshooting problem-solving communication and project coordination skills

• Experience supporting validation layered audit readiness process improvement and ongoing production support

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GM manufacturing systems and error-proofing processes

• Experience with traceability mapping tool-event configuration or comparable systems used to manage error-proofing traceability

• Experience supporting multiple plant launches or cross-plant issue resolution

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