Energy & Emissions Lab Industrial Mechanical Technician

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Location: Milford, MI

Discipline: Equipment Maintenance

Posting Date: 10/27/2025

Energy & Emissions Laboratory Industrial Mechanical Technician

Position:  Energy & Emissions Laboratory Industrial  Mechanical Technician

Location:  GM Milford

Hours: 

Monday through Friday with an opportunity for some overtime on weekends – Saturday/Sunday

• 1^st shift: 6am to 2:30 pm
• 2^nd Shift:2pm – 10:30 pm
• 3^rd Shift:10pm – 6:30am

Possible 4/10 hour days:

• 1^st shift:6am – 4:30pm
• 2^nd shift: 2pm – 12:30am
• 3^rd shift:9pm to 7:30am

Travel:  none.

Number of openings: 4 – new team

Hiring Process:  45 minutes to an hour onsite.  Possible MS Teams.

Timing to hire: Face to face onsite through the week of November 3^rd. Hiring week of November10th or 17th,

Pre-employment physical and good driving record are required.

Purpose:

This job is based in General Motors’ Milford Proving Grounds Energy and Emissions Laboratories. The lab and results it produces are used by GM’s growing team of engineers in support of the vision of a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion.

The Technician reports to the Group Leader of the Engineering Maintenance and Technical Support (EMT) support organization. The EMT team is primarily responsible for specifying, sourcing, engineering, integrating, safely commissioning and developing a robust maintenance model for test equipment within the lab. This role directly affects the quality, durability and performance of vehicles and related products developed by General Motors.

The Technician role is a good fit for a qualified individual who is interested in state-of-the-art technologies and testing methods, system-level integration, and related equipment in a laboratory setting.  Serve as the single point contact to internal and external stakeholders for Engineering Maintenance and Technical support related activities, including day-to-day operations and future planning initiatives.

• Monitor ongoing tasks, providing regular status reports to stakeholders and leadership while proactively identifying and escalating roadblocks when appropriate
• Act as a technical resource to internal and supplier teams in all aspects of Engineering Maintenance and Technical Support
• Ability to create, launch, and execute a preventative equipment maintenance system and related plans for key facility infrastructure supporting testing activities.
• Troubleshooting and repair of laboratory infrastructure specifically supporting the testing activities (process HVAC, machine repair, electrical distribution and plumbing disciplines).
• Maintain awareness of the latest test equipment and technology, including commissioning, safe operating procedures, and maintenance requirements

Day in the Life: 

The Maintenance Technician will receive a lot of hands on training, they will be on the floor wrenching fixing things, mechanical second floor is what the focus of their work will be, fork truck rigging operation

• 60% planned maintenance
• 40% unplanned maintenance (something breaks and they need to troubleshoot it)

Interaction level with the team – the team is about 11 people, facilities team, operations team that runs the testing, service suppliers that are onsite but also very hands on if they need to bring more service people onsite, need to be able to work with all of these key groups

Qualifications:

• Education:
  • Associates Degree
• Experience:
  • Minimum 5 – 7 years truck level experience, not dealership.
• HVAC systems
• Machine Repair - Good with tools – power hand tools
• Computer skills – Outlook, Excel, IBM tools, SharePoint, Slack/Teams
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Maximo as used for Preventive maintenance, planning and execution
• Demonstrated ability to work with a high level of autonomy in a complex environment, managing multiple maintenance events, by establishing priorities and executing with minimal supervision
• Experience with equipment used in Emissions Development and Certification testing (Building and Process)
• Experience utilizing building management systems for diagnosis and troubleshooting overall operation
• Experience working with equipment suppliers and installation contractors
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, where issues are complex in nature
• Ability to read and interpret P&ID/One line/ Electrical and Control diagrams for use in diagnosis and troubleshooting of hardware

Soft Skills:

• Process oriented and detail-driven, able to follow established procedures consistently
• High degree of emotional intelligence.
• Effective communication; written and verbal.
• Good records keeping.

RCO Engineering offers an excellent benefit package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance benefits. We also offer short-term disability and FMLA benefits, a 401(k) match, tuition reimbursement, as well as Bereavement Pay and Jury Duty Pay.

Company Overview

Located in Metro Detroit, RCO Engineering is a leading supplier to the automotive, aerospace and defense industries. As a full service product development partner, RCO offers customers a wide range of services, including production plastic and metal parts, prototype and production seat molds, prototype and production injection molds, a full service aluminum foundry, as well as complete product design and engineering services. Our fully equipped metal fabricating and stamping facility is capable of producing parts, assemblies and subassemblies for most any system. Additionally, RCO is the industry's largest and most trusted seating and soft trim development company, having worked with almost every automotive OEM and numerous aerospace firms.