Instrumentation & Emissions Technician

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Location: Milford, MI

Posting Date: 08/07/2025

Location: GM Milford Proving Grounds

Number of Openings:  6

Shifts:  Multiple (see breakdowns below) – can do 4, 10 hour days, or 5, 8 hour days.

• 1st Sun-Wed 6AM-4:30PM
• 1st Wed-Sat 6am-4:30PM
• 2nd Sun-Wed 4PM-2:30AM
• 2nd Mon-Fri 2PM-10:30PM
• 2nd Wed-Sat 4PM-2:30AM
• 3rd Sun-Wed 9PM-7:30AM
• 3rd Mon-Fri 10PM-6:30AM
• 3rd Wed-Sat 9PM-7:30AM

Environment: 

Test facility, clean space, lab orientated space, climate controlled, all indoors.

Overview:

The Instrumentation Technician will work in several teams where you will demonstrate your knowledge, skills, and learning abilities with a nominal amount of cross training. More experienced applicants will manage most project responsibilities rather than working on parts of a job and possess the ability to mentor other technicians. Instrumentation & Emissions (I&E) technicians can expect to work in various areas of the lab. This typically involves troubleshooting test cell systems and equipment, calibrating instrumentation, and performing preventative maintenance. The group seeks to minimize downtime to maximize efficiency while driving continuous improvement.

This group supports emission testing for GM.  They own everything in the test cells for emissions, any data acquisition equipment, servicing, maintenance, repairing, testing inside the building. They do all emission testing for GM, globally, any type of vehicle that GM has.  Approved for sale through their building.  They will have the opportunity to see cars from the US and other places they might not normally see, new future technologies, EV range testing, test electric vehicles, see a lot of new things, business is ever changing and growing.

Motivator for this need – combination of backfilling positions and needing the help, they are expecting an increase in workload.

Daily Breakdown:

Instrumentation & Equipment Technicians will work in one or more of the following areas:

• Troubleshooting and repair of all items making up the test cell facility, including drive systems, fuel systems, dynamometers, pumps, heaters, heat exchangers, collecting motor vibration data, filter replacement, installing and calibrating cell transducers, harness and wiring troubleshooting, etc.
• Installation, calibration, set-up, and troubleshooting of exhaust gas emission measurement equipment.
• Equipment preventive and predictive maintenance work
• Start the day checking emails,
• every shift has a team lead, team lead will host a kick off meeting in the morning,
• creates a plan for their shift,
• get a job assignment from their team lead and execute that work,
• they can get help from the team lead if needed during their shift,
• eventually will be able to source their own work and manage themselves.

Examples of a plan for the day - Test cell is down, vehicle had a high emission value for gas, would need to verify operation of equipment, run test to make sure it’s working correctly, check filters, give to another team to test, might be some scheduled maintenance doing different calibration tests, changing filters and fluids, pick up from where the last shift left off.

Interaction level with the team – working with their team lead, might work in pairs or individually depending on the project, 6 total people on the team on 2nd shift.

• Assigned a work order from the Lead Development Engineer.
• Work on the issue until it is complete.
• Record data, report the data and findings
• Work on Emissions for the government
• Prep vehicles for emissions testing and data collection
• Upfitting of electrical components in vehicles
• Put computer stacks, wiring, emissions probes, temperature checks in the vehicles
• Fabrication of the exhaust systems
• Might set the whole vehicle up if something isn’t working and find and fix the issue(s).
• Friday’s is an engineering meeting to go over findings.

Requirements

• Associates Degree or equivalent experience in an electrical-related field (circuit level, machine controls/maintenance, high voltage, commercial electrical, etc.) and/or related certifications
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• 3-5+ years of electrical and/or mechanical hands-on experience and capability
• Welding and fabrication without clear direction.
• Familiarity with any of the kinds of systems mentioned in the paragraph above
• Must be comfortable working on 480VAC and 1000VDC systems, potentially while energized and understand associated risk reduction techniques
• Be able to interpret electrical and mechanical drawings
• Must have broad troubleshooting skills
• Must have a good driving record!  This position involves driving corporate vehicles.