General Motors is cutting around 500 jobs, which will affect a site in Michigan and another in Georgia, a company spokesman confirmed to WardsAuto.
The automaker will lay off roughly 300 workers at its Georgia innovation center, located in the north Atlanta suburb of Roswell, Kevin Kelly, senior director of corporate news relations, said in an email. The site is expected to close before year’s end.
GM is also cutting around 200 CAD engineering positions at its global technical center in Warren, Michigan. Kelly said those job cuts were effective immediately.
Regarding Roswell, Kelly said GM was unifying technical teams in targeted hubs for better collaboration, which led to the decision to close the Georgia facility.
While at the Warren site, Kelly said the company is restructuring its design engineering team to strengthen its core architectural design engineering capabilities.
“As a result, a number of CAD execution roles have been eliminated,” he said.
The workforce reductions follow GM’s Q3 earnings announcement on Oct. 21, where tariffs caused the automaker’s net income to tumble 57% year-over-year. CEO Mary Barra, said during a call with analysts, that returning GM’s North American operations to its historical 8% to 10% EBIT margins was a priority and part of that strategy was managing the company’s fixed costs, though she didn’t mention headcount reductions.
