2025 Co-Op – Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Job Description

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE.  DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. 

Work Arrangement:  

Onsite: This role is categorized as onsite. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to their assigned plant on a full-time basis.   

What You’ll Do:  

At General Motors we pride ourselves on designing, building and selling the world's best vehicles. We are seeking a new generation of visionaries to help launch bold engineering and business initiatives, and shape new directions for General Motors. As a Manufacturing Quality Engineer Co-Op student, you will gain hands-on career specific experiences to maximize your real-world potential. 

Looking for a position that demonstrates your high level of analytical ability where problems are unusual and difficult? Our culture here at GM cultivates innovative thinking where we like to see things not as they are but as they could be. We also look to put quality and safety at the forefront of everything we do. As a Quality Engineer Co-Op student at GM, you would drive problem solving and resolutions based on data driven solutions to suppliers and internal customers. Your work would involve functioning as a technical liaison between production operations, engineering, suppliers, and supplier quality at a GM manufacturing plant. Responsibilities may include:  

• Interact with production and engineering on part measurement results to part print specifications to assure quality and reliability   

• Ensure effective containment and resolution to identified non-conforming product   

• Communicate emerging issues for responsible components daily to Quality Systems Manager   

• Coordinate repair, rework, and containment activities for identified spills   

• Validate supplier scrap   

• Work with PRR process on supplier related issues   

• Support the PTR Process by running PTR's and evaluating impact on the product / function   

• Support launch activities of new products   

• Support the implementation and effective adherence to all elements within GMS   

Specific physical requirements of the position include the ability to: 

• Walk and stand for prolonged periods of time.  

• Read standardized work instructions, operate machines and tools, and perform quality inspections. 

• Promptly detect and respond to safety instructions, alarms, and signals. 

• Wear personal protective equipment, for example: safety glasses, gloves, hats, ear plugs, and safety shoes. 

• Work in a loud manufacturing environment that is not climate controlled (conditions can be hot or cold). 

• Frequently and repetitively: Bend, twist, kneel, crouch and reach to perform work

• Lift or carry materials weighing up to 15 pounds and periodically carry or lift materials weighing up to 40 lbs.

• Occasionally sit, climb (including ladders and lifts) and drive vehicles and equipment. 

Job Location 

We have opportunities available in the location below for this role.

• Tonawanda, NY 

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