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Sr. Structural Engineer, Construction
General Motors Company · 🇺🇸 Warren, Michigan, United States of America
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What General Motors Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles171 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in MI: $140k–$163k, median $150k. Most were filed at wage level IV (74%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — General Motors Company
The US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description General Motors is seeking a Senior Structural Engineer serves as GM’s owner-side engineering subject matter expert for major commercial, industrial, manufacturing, and workplace capital projects. The role provides technical leadership from front-end planning through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, occupancy, and facility operations when structural matters arise. The Senior Structural Engineer establishes structural requirements and review strategies, interprets applicable codes and GM standards, evaluates designs and technical risks, and supports project teams across multiple delivery models. The role helps teams make safe, constructible, cost-effective, resilient, and sustainable decisions while coordinating with project leaders, planners, architects and engineers, contractors, operations, safety, procurement, and other stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership and Governance • Serve as the GM structural subject matter expert for ICC planning, design, construction, and facility operations, providing technical leadership, recommendations, expectations, and decision support for major capital projects. • Provide independent owner-side technical challenge to proposed designs, deviations, substitutions, recommendations, and execution approaches to confirm technical basis, safety, code compliance, constructability, durability, risk, and business alignment. • Triage structural support requests and establish risk-based review plans, deliverable expectations, hold points, reviewer responsibilities, and decision records based on safety, risk, project impact, urgency, and business need. • Review and interpret structural calculations, drawings, specifications, models, studies, construction documents, and applicable codes to identify gaps, assumptions, quality concerns, constructability issues, and required decisions. Project Planning and Design Support • Engage early in planning studies, preliminary engineering, project initiation, and kickoff to identify structural scope, risks, constraints, interfaces, code considerations, constructability issues, and budget or schedule implications. • Support project leaders and planners with structural studies, conceptual alternatives, class-level estimates, schedules, business cases, VDP activities, and Appropriation Requests. • Lead or support concept reviews and buy-offs covering design intent, structural systems, load criteria, load paths, foundations, framing, existing-building modifications, equipment interfaces, and other critical structural matters. • Support value analysis, value engineering, cost-benefit analysis, design-to-budget decisions, and scope alternatives by evaluating structural implications, lifecycle considerations, risk, resiliency, flexibility, and constructability. Standards, Specifications, and Technical Documentation • Prepare, edit, interpret, and maintain technically rigorous Statements of Requirements and Requests for Proposals, including structural scope, performance criteria, deliverables, safety expectations, testing and inspection requirements, and applicable commercial requirements. • Develop, maintain, and communicate structural design requirements, performance criteria, deliverable expectations, technical assumptions, discipline checklists, specifications, standard details, design guides, templates, and governance documents. • Support stewardship of the General Motors Technical Documents Library and promote consistent application of approved structural standards across projects and sites. • Translate project history, benchmarking, field experience, recurring technical issues, industry practices, emerging technologies, materials, and delivery methods into improvements to standards, scope development, de