Time Labor Vehicle Tear Down and Build Technician

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Location: Warren, MI

Posting Date: 10/28/2025

Position:  Time Labor Vehicle Tear Down and Build Technician

Location:  GM Warren Tech Center.

Hours:  6am to 2:30 pm, Monday - Friday

Travel:  none.

Number of openings: 1 due to backfilling a direct hire conversion.

Hiring Process:  2 step.  30 minutes MS Teams with an onsite interview with a tour of the facility.  Applications must include 4 ASE Certifications. 

Timing to hire:

Immediate. November17th.

Pre-employment physical required and driving record verification.

Purpose:

We are looking for an addition to our team who can work on every part of the vehicle-
This role will time the process to take apart and put the vehicle back together and of course optimize the process as they go through the cars.

Business group: This group is responsible for validating the service manuals, service procedures, and  validating repair procedures so service can be performed how the instructions are written.  The goal is to time and optimize the procedures.  This group sees all need vehicles for all of GM service manuals.  The Technician follows a tracker of all of the different procedures, take the car part and put it together.

Motivator for this position – backfill for a few people who have gone direct also want to prepare for more work next year.

Interaction level with the team:                

The team is 9 Technicians.  This is more of a heads down position.  Depending on the project they could be working with other technicians.  There is interaction with the mechanical service development engineers (authors of the service manual) they are onsite at the facility, service integration engineers.

Day in the Life: 

Start the day checking email first thing in the morning to check in on issues.

• refer to tracker file which is a roadmap of tasks that need to be done,
• get the task and complete it, there is a not a set number of items to complete per week, will be doing different special projects not always just normal work (25-30 different procedures to be done every week – when they are busier they are not currently tracking this right now)

Technicians will come up with video clips (!6 per quarter) of better ways to do something or notes/pictures to help the technicians.

 

Qualifications:

• Education:
  • At Least 4 ASE Certifications
  • 2 years experience full vehicle build/assembly
  • Prefer a 2 year Trade School education
• Experience:
  • Specific Responsibilities of this Position:
    • Perform on vehicle Validation of service procedures
    • Identify errors and possible optimizations within service procedures
    • Perform time studies of removal and installation procedures
    • Document validations and time studies
    • Document and communicate project status to leadership as required.
    • Perform special assignments as requested
• Good with tools – power hand tools
• Computer skills – Outlook, Excel, IBM tools, SharePoint, Slack/Teams
• Must be at least 21 years old and have a good driving record

Soft Skills:

• Process oriented and detail-driven, able to follow established procedures consistently
• Thrives in working in a structured environment
• Documentation. Being very literal helps check the accuracy of the manuals
• 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, 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.