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More than 1,200 General Motors engineering jobs are moving to Pontiac and Milford from Detroit, Lansing and Flint over the next two years.
The move is part of broad consolidation of the company's powertrain engineering assets, which historically have been scattered at several sites in Michigan, GM officials said Friday.
When the Powertrain Group is reorganized by the end of next year, the engine technical center in Pontiac on Joslyn Road and the old Pontiac Motor Division headquarters on Pontiac Place on Joslyn Road will begin making room for the new engineers, said Ned McClurg, vice president of engineering for the GM Powertrain Group. The site will have primary responsibility for engine design and preproduction of engine prototypes, GM officials said.
Technical work on emission control and engine calibration will be consolidated at the GM Proving Ground in Milford, while design development work will be focused at the GM Technical Center in Warren.
The moves will require uprooting 600 engineers and technicians in Lansing and another 940 engineers and technicians in Flint and moving them to Pontiac, Milford and Warren.
About 800 engineers from Flint and Lansing will shift to renovated quarters in the Powertrain Group engineering and administrative center on Joslyn Road. The rest, about 750 engineers, will be divided evenly between...