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General Motors

Assistant Director, Construction

Warren, MI, United States
Detroit, MI, United States

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Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 21, 2026

Original job description

Hybrid

Warren, Michigan, United States of America

Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Full time

JR-202622753

Job Description

Overview

General Motors Construction is responsible for planning, designing, and executing more than $2B in facility capital projects annually across manufacturing and non-manufacturing facilities. The Assistant Director, Construction is accountable for safe, predictable, and high-quality execution across this complex North American portfolio. The role leads through Construction Group Managers and Project Managers across concurrent projects, with accountability for portfolio priorities and execution performance.

The role owns delivery from design/build contract award through mobilization, field execution, commissioning, turnover, closeout, and warranty. Partnering closely with the Director of Planning, Design, and Engineering and other functional leaders, the Assistant Director converts approved scope and technical direction into successful construction outcomes while balancing Safety, Cost, Schedule, Quality, business continuity, and long-term value.

Note : We are hiring for two Assistant Director, Construction positions that together oversee the North American construction portfolio. One position will have responsibility for Manufacturing and CCA/Distribution construction projects; the other will have responsibility for Non-Manufacturing, Canada, and Mexico construction projects.

Key Responsibilities

Set execution strategy and operating direction

Set the construction strategy, priorities, governance, and operating model for the assigned portfolio in alignment with General Motors’ facility investment priorities.
Lead Construction Group Managers and Project Managers across concurrent projects, with clear operating rhythms, decision rights, and resource plans.
Balance portfolio priorities and intervene when project performance, organizational capacity, or business needs require leadership action.
Hold portfolio leaders accountable for approved commitments, performance, and timely escalation.
Advise senior leaders on capital priorities, delivery strategies, organizational capacity, enterprise trade-offs, and operational risk.

Lead construction delivery and project controls

Oversee design/build contractor delivery from procurement and contract award through construction, commissioning, turnover, closeout, and warranty.
Ensure contractors maintain compliant plans for execution, schedule, cost, safety, quality, risk, and commissioning.
Direct contractor performance, changes, claims, contingency, supplier coordination, operational interfaces, and recovery actions.
Ensure consistent application of project controls for scope, funding, procurement, contracting, change, risk, document control, invoicing, reporting, and closeout.
Maintain accurate project records, performance dashboards, governance reviews, audit readiness, corrective actions, and transparent reporting.

Drive Safety, Cost, Schedule, and Quality outcomes

Enforce General Motors safety requirements, site plans, regulatory compliance, leading and lagging indicators, incident response, and corrective actions.
Control budgets, commitments, forecasts, contingency, payments, changes, claims, and variances; provide clear explanations and recovery recommendations.
Maintain baseline schedules, critical-path visibility, milestones, look-ahead plans, long-lead tracking, and recovery plans.
Enforce quality plans, inspections, testing, nonconformance resolution, punch-list closure, commissioning readiness, and turnover quality.
Identify and mitigate risks related to safety, cost, schedule, quality, permitting, constructability, operations, compliance, and business continuity.

Manage commercial risk and stakeholder partnerships

Serve as a senior construction partner to business leaders, facility operations, Finance, Purchasing, Legal, Audit, Environmental, and other corporate functions.
Partner with Purchasing on sourcing, contracts, supplier performance, and commercial issues; partner with Operations on continuity, shutdowns, commissioning, and readiness.
Coordinate with Legal, Audit, Finance, and Environmental on contracts, claims, controls, funding, compliance, permits, remediation, and sustainability requirements.
Lead relationships with contractors, consultants, equipment providers, suppliers, and other external partners; align stakeholders, secure decisions, and resolve roadblocks.
Provide senior leaders with clear portfolio status, material risks, decisions, forecasts, and recovery recommendations.

Build organizational capability and talent

Lead, coach, and develop Construction Group Managers, Project Managers, and construction professionals through clear expectations, feedback, performance management, and career development.
Build succession depth, strengthen capability, balance workload, and deploy talent to priority needs across the portfolio.
Champion organizational change and use data, lessons learned, technology, and industry practices to improve delivery predictability and reduce rework, claims, and punch-list items.
Foster an inclusive, accountable, collaborative, and safety-focused culture grounded in integrity, continuous learning, and ownership.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, business, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
Fifteen or more years of progressive experience leading complex industrial, manufacturing, commercial, infrastructure, or facilities construction programs.
Demonstrated experience setting strategy, operating direction, performance expectations, and resource plans through project managers, construction managers, and other technical or delivery professionals across multiple complex projects.
Demonstrated experience with design/build delivery, contractor performance, project controls, change management, commissioning, turnover, closeout, and warranty.
Strong knowledge of owner requirements, safety, cost control, scheduling, quality assurance, contracts, claims, delivery models, constructability, risk management, supplier performance, and operational readiness.
Proven financial and commercial judgment, including budgeting, forecasting, contingency, contract strategy, change management, and capital stewardship.
Strong executive communication, negotiation, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and stakeholder-influence skills.
Experience operating in a complex, matrixed organization across multiple sites, regions, functions, and cultures, including cross-border or North American environments.
Demonstrated judgment balancing safety, quality, cost, schedule, compliance, operational continuity, and long-term value when priorities and risks compete.

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced degree or professional credentials such as Professional Engineer, Project Management Professional, or Certified Construction Manager.
Experience leading multi-site or multi-region construction portfolios in complex manufacturing, technology, or facilities environments.
Experience with multiple delivery models, integrated project delivery, digital project controls, or comparable construction technologies.
Experience leading organizational transformation, operating-model change, or capability-building initiatives.

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}.

The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

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. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources (https://search-careers.gm.com/en/working-at-gm/total-rewards) .

Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.

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, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. 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. To learn more, visit How we Hire (https://search-careers.gm.com/en/how-we-hire) .

Accommodations

General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email (Careers.Accommodations@GM.com) us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

We are leading the change to make our world better, safer and more equitable for all through our actions and how we behave. Learn more about:

Our Company (https://search-careers.gm.com/en/working-at-gm/)

Our Culture

How we hire (https://search-careers.gm.com/en/how-we-hire/)

Our diverse team of employees bring their collective passion for engineering, technology and design to deliver on our vision of a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion. We are looking for adventure-seekers and imaginative thought leaders to help us transform mobility.

Explore our global locations (https://search-careers.gm.com/en/locations/)

The policy of General Motors is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status. Additionally, General Motors is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at Careers.Accommodations@GM.com .In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

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Leadership
Procurement
Reporting
Regulatory compliance
Incident response
Inspection
Performance management
Construction management
Change management
Scheduling
Quality assurance
Risk management
Budget management
Forecasting
Communication skills
Negotiation
Problem solving
Conflict resolution
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