Staff Systems Engineer- Plant Floor Monitoring & Control

Position Summary

Staff Systems Engineer – Plant Floor Monitoring & Control at General Motors

Job Description

The Staff Systems Engineer leads the design, development, and sustainment of applications used for Plant Floor Monitoring & Control across GM manufacturing plants in North America. You will provide architectural direction, set and steward standards for GE CIMPLICITY solutions (or equivalent SCADA platforms), and ensure robust, maintainable integrations with data platforms, historians, and enterprise applications. Pair hands-on coding and automation with cross-functional leadership to deliver scalable capabilities that improve uptime, usability, deployment velocity, and data quality across plants.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support plant floor monitoring and control applications, balancing legacy sustainment with modernization and standardization.
• Architect and evolve SCADA solutions (e.g., GE CIMPLICITY), including point and alarm modeling, screen and navigation patterns, classes and attributes, global scripts, access models, high availability, and upgrade / migration execution.
• Define sustainable connectivity patterns for PLC communication using industrial protocols; establish channel / device / tag standards, optimize performance, and govern configuration and security.
• Collaborate on environment management and validation for plant deployments; drive repeatable buildout, configuration-as-code, and automated verification.
• Partner with reporting and data teams to implement reliable data integration, including SQL Server development, interfaces to plant-floor historians, and operational reporting enhancements.
• Develop and optimize synchronous and asynchronous integrations using REST, messaging, and industrial data connectors; improve performance, resilience, and fault handling.
• Troubleshoot and resolve software issues in both new and legacy systems; perform root-cause analysis and proactive remediation of code quality, security, and usability concerns.
• Automate unit, integration, and end-to-end testing; promote testable architectures, quality gates, and continuous delivery of small, safe changes.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, code reviews, and approvals to ensure alignment with GM standards and industry best practices; create clear technical documentation for designs and user guidance.
• Contribute to roadmap definition, estimation, and incremental delivery; communicate status and risks transparently, and coordinate with plant stakeholders to align with production schedules.
• Participate in on-call rotation and support planned downtime windows, including off-hours / holidays as needed to protect manufacturing schedules.

Required Qualifications

People Skills

Preferred Qualifications

Company Vehicle

Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note : program participants are required to purchase / lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

Immigration and Relocation

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc). This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week or other frequency dictated by their manager. This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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