GM Opens New IT Innovation Center in Michigan - Approximately 1,500
high-tech jobs to be created
DETROIT – General
Motors is opening an Information Technology Innovation Center in Warren,
Mich., and expects to hire up to 1,500 high-tech employees over the next
several years to support the company’s new approach to IT services.
The GM Michigan
Innovation Center is the second of four planned Innovation Centers in
the United States. GM last month announced the opening of the first
facility in Austin, Texas, where 500 new IT jobs will be created.
“We’re currently
seeking the next generation of game-changers to help us usher in a new
age of automotive innovation at GM,” said GM Chief Information Officer
Randy Mott.
The IT Innovation Centers play a critical role in GM’s overall IT
business strategy. GM is looking to create and deliver IT services with
new capabilities that will help the company improve its performance,
drive down the cost of ongoing operations and increase the level of
innovation delivered to GM customers. To support this approach, GM is
moving to a more in-sourced IT business services model as part of its
overall IT Transformation.
“GM is executing an IT
best practice by insourcing IT services and making them a strategic part
of assuring GM remains a fast-moving leader,” said Rob Enderle,
principal analyst at the Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif. “This is also
one of the best opportunities for IT professionals to work in the
automotive industry.”
Available positions
include software development, project management, database management
and business analysis. GM is recruiting recent college graduates and
experienced professionals for these jobs.
GM recruiters are
visiting U.S. college campuses this fall and participating in local job
fairs targeting IT professionals. For more information and to apply for
one of these positions, potential job candidates should visit
http://www.careers.gm.com/itjobs.
