Generalmotors
Technical Specialist - Thermal System Innovation
Warren, Michigan, United States of America
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About the role
- Technical Specialist - Thermal System Innovation The Thermal System Innovation Technical Specialist is recognized as a subject matter expert in thermal system innovation, strategy development, and future roadmap creation.
- This person should be equally comfortable shaping long-range strategy, facilitating cross-functional technical discussions, supporting advanced concepts, and influencing decisions without direct authority.
- The candidate must hold self and others accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results without compromising integrity, safety, or quality.
Responsibilities
- Develop and drive the thermal innovation roadmap in alignment with subsystem needs, vehicle strategies, customer experience priorities, and long-range technology direction.
- Build strong working relationships with Design Studio, Software and Services, Research and Development, advanced engineering teams, systems teams, and other critical partners to ensure thermal opportunities are identified early and translated into actionable development paths.
- Lead innovation projects that support the thermal roadmap, including future concepts, new methods, and cross-functional technical workstreams needed to strengthen GM leadership in thermal systems.
- Identify where artificial intelligence, automation, and digital workflows can create meaningful value in thermal engineering, then partner with technical experts, analysts, software teams, and tool developers to define, develop, and apply those capabilities more effectively.
- Lead and support benchmarking of competitive thermal systems, integration strategies, customer-facing features, and innovation approaches to identify opportunities for GM to differentiate.
- Support and/or lead cross-functional teams as necessary to ensure innovation concepts are coordinated with vehicle integration, software strategy, system requirements, and execution realities.
- Provide technical direction for trade studies, virtual analysis, concept evaluation, and other structured assessments to support data-driven decisions.
- Drive development of innovation themes from early concept through strategic recommendation, including technical framing, success criteria, risks, dependencies, timing, and implementation paths.
- Help define and mature tools, methods, workflows, and documentation needed to support thermal roadmap execution and improve team effectiveness.
- Develop clear technical narratives, roadmaps, presentations, and review materials for engineering and leadership forums.
Requirements
- This person must be highly motivated, forward-looking, and energized by building what is next.
- They must be comfortable operating in ambiguity, connecting customer needs and competitive insights to engineering opportunities, and helping teams move from concept to useful strategy, tools, and implementation paths.
- The Technical Specialist must use a high degree of independent judgment, technical leadership, creativity, and initiative.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to present technical strategies and recommendations clearly to leadership and cross-functional teams are essential.
- Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment.
Nice to have
- Technical Serve as the technical owner and subject matter expert for thermal innovation roadmap development across future vehicle architectures, customer-facing thermal features, and enabling engineering capabilities.
- Translate future customer needs, competitive trends, technical gaps, and emerging technologies into prioritized thermal strategies, technology themes, and implementation plans.
- Leadership and Communication Influence across organizations to align teams around common thermal innovation priorities and long-range strategic direction.
- Bring together groups with different objectives and perspectives to form shared roadmaps and practical next steps.
- Communicate clearly and effectively in leadership reviews, technical forums, cross-functional discussions, and strategic planning sessions.
Benefits
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- Benefits Overview From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.
Company info
- Overview From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.
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- All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gende
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