IE Summer Intern in Warren, MI

The Role

The Manufacturing Excellence IE Intern will help build and roll out digital tools that improve workforce planning, data usability, and standardized work across GM manufacturing operations.

A main focus is converting existing files and workflows from Microsoft Office tools to Google Workspace. The intern will review current files, protect data integrity and functionality, standardize templates, and document practical ways for teams to use Google Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Drive.

The intern will also support the development and rollout of a new, digitized version of the Global Workbook Manpower Tracking tool. This may include gathering user needs, helping define requirements, supporting solution development, testing functionality and data, preparing user guidance, and assisting with rollout and adoption.

The Team

The Manufacturing Excellence IE team builds scalable processes, standards, and digital solutions that improve the effectiveness of GM manufacturing operations. It works with plant operations, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, information technology, and other cross-functional partners to simplify work, improve visibility into critical information, and support data-driven decisions.

What You'll Do

• Inventory and evaluate existing Microsoft-based files, templates, and workflows targeted for conversion to Google Workspace.
• Convert and standardize selected files in Google Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Drive while keeping data integrity, usability, and appropriate access controls.
• Find ways to simplify spreadsheets, reduce manual work, improve consistency, and set repeatable standards for converted files.
• Assist with requirements gathering, process mapping, and user feedback for the digitized Global Workbook Manpower Tracking tool.
• Support the development, configuration, testing, and deployment of the new manpower tracking solution.
• Create test scenarios, validate outputs, document procedures, and help prepare training or communications for end users.
• Work with plant operations, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, IT, and other stakeholders to resolve issues and make practical improvements.
• Potential project: convert and pilot a prioritized set of legacy workforce-planning files while supporting the launch of the digitized tool and measuring adoption.
• Support data-quality checks, reconciliations, and issue resolution across Global Workbook inputs, workforce-planning data, and reporting outputs.
• Help document current-state processes, standardized work, and plant task inventories, and identify ways to simplify, automate, consolidate, or eliminate non-value-added work.
• Assist with dashboards and analyses of workforce and productivity measures such as manpower utilization, Hours per Unit, Cost per Unit, percent Value Added, and Minutes per Hour.
• Take part in plant and cross-functional working sessions to gather requirements, capture decisions, track actions, and share lessons learned across sites.
• Support pilot and deployment activities, including user-acceptance testing, access and role documentation, training materials, change communications, and post-launch issue tracking.
• Gain exposure to future, launch, and production-support work, including plan-for-every-site reviews, launch readiness, standard-work deployment, and continuous-improvement projects.

Internship Details

This internship is hybrid, with expected on-site presence at the GM Global Technical Center (Cole Engineering Center Tower) in Warren, MI at least three days per week. Candidates must be willing to travel to GM manufacturing facilities as needed. GM will provide a one-time lump-sum taxable stipend to eligible students selected for the 2027 Student Program. Start dates are May 24 and June 14, 2027.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.

About GM

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