General Motors Promotes Mike Trevorrow to Senior Vice President of Global Manufacturing, Deepening Leadership for Future-Forward Operations
General Motors (GM) has announced the appointment of Mike Trevorrow as Senior Vice President of Global Manufacturing, a strategic leadership move aimed at reinforcing the company’s momentum toward advanced vehicle production and innovation integration. The promotion is effective immediately. Trevorrow will assume this elevated role while retaining his current responsibilities as Vice President of Global Manufacturing Engineering, ensuring continuity and tight alignment between manufacturing strategy and product development execution.
With more than four decades of experience in manufacturing operations and engineering, Trevorrow brings unmatched expertise, institutional knowledge, and cross-functional leadership to the position. His elevation comes at a time when GM is accelerating the transformation of its manufacturing footprint to support next-generation vehicles, including electric and software-defined platforms.
In his new role, Trevorrow will oversee GM’s expansive global manufacturing and manufacturing engineering teams, which collectively represent over 95,000 employees. These teams are distributed across 110 manufacturing sites in 11 countries and span four continents, playing a pivotal role in GM’s global production and supply chain capabilities. He will report directly to GM President Mark Reuss, indicating the strategic importance of this appointment within the company’s senior leadership framework.
Reinforcing Integration Across Product Development and Manufacturing
The decision to combine leadership over global manufacturing and manufacturing engineering under Trevorrow’s guidance is designed to foster deeper alignment between product design, engineering execution, and production operations. This structural evolution is expected to streamline decision-making, reduce inefficiencies, and bolster the company’s ability to rapidly scale innovative technologies across global platforms.
“Mike’s extensive experience in manufacturing operations and engineering, along with his steady leadership, make him the right choice to lead our global manufacturing organization into the future,” said Mark Reuss, President of General Motors. “His promotion means we will maintain a strong link between manufacturing engineering and product execution, encourage more collaboration among our teams, and increase the pace of advanced technology and innovation.”
This appointment comes at a critical time for GM as the automaker continues investing in electrification, automation, and digital integration. Trevorrow is now positioned to play a central role in bringing these strategies to life across GM’s global production network, ensuring that new vehicles are not only engineered for the future but also manufactured with precision, scalability, and sustainability in mind.
A Career Built on Manufacturing Excellence
Mike Trevorrow’s career at GM has been marked by a steady ascent through key manufacturing and engineering roles, both in North America and internationally. He began his journey with the company in North American manufacturing, where he held a variety of plant leadership and operational roles. His early career was shaped by on-the-ground experience managing teams, optimizing processes, and driving efficiency in plant environments.
His international perspective was broadened with a key assignment in Japan, where he contributed to GM’s global production strategies and cross-cultural operational alignment. In 2013, he was promoted to Executive Director of Global Body in Manufacturing Engineering, a role that allowed him to lead the development of body assembly systems and processes critical to vehicle performance, safety, and structural integrity.
Trevorrow subsequently served as Plant Executive Director of GM’s Lansing Region, where he oversaw production across one of GM’s most important manufacturing hubs. His leadership in the Lansing area was instrumental in executing quality production and maintaining high safety and operational standards.
Further underscoring his commitment to employee wellbeing and operational excellence, Trevorrow also previously served as Vice President of Global Workplace Safety, a role that emphasized his deep understanding of risk management, employee engagement, and safe manufacturing practices.
In 2023, Trevorrow was promoted to Vice President of North American Manufacturing. In this position, he led manufacturing operations across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, where he guided the launch of new vehicle programs, supported supply chain resilience, and worked to ensure seamless integration of new technologies. In early 2024, he advanced to his current role as Vice President of Global Manufacturing Engineering, which he will now continue to oversee alongside his new global manufacturing responsibilities.
Supporting GM’s Broader Innovation Strategy
As GM continues to pursue a future defined by electrification, autonomous capabilities, and software-defined vehicles, the role of manufacturing becomes increasingly central. The ability to industrialize complex, connected, and digitally enabled vehicles requires not only innovation in product design but also innovation in how those products are built.
Under Trevorrow’s leadership, GM aims to more effectively integrate advanced manufacturing technologies across its operations. This includes greater adoption of automation, AI-enabled quality control systems, flexible manufacturing platforms, and connected plant ecosystems that collect and act on real-time data.
Trevorrow’s expanded oversight is also expected to help GM shorten the cycle between product development and market introduction. By unifying manufacturing engineering with manufacturing operations under one leader, GM can bring new innovations to life faster while reducing the risk of execution gaps between design and production.
Furthermore, Trevorrow’s appointment strengthens GM’s commitment to providing a consistent, high-quality customer experience across all vehicle platforms. A tighter connection between manufacturing strategy and vehicle execution helps ensure that what is promised in design is reliably delivered in production.
Mike Trevorrow steps into his new role at a time of significant evolution within the automotive industry. From the rise of electric vehicles to the adoption of digital twin simulations and smart factory technologies, manufacturing is not just a support function—it is a cornerstone of competitive advantage. GM’s leadership in global manufacturing has long been a pillar of its success, and with Trevorrow at the helm, the company is poised to drive even greater integration, speed, and quality across its production systems.
With more than 40 years of service to GM and a reputation for hands-on leadership, operational rigor, and deep technical knowledge, Trevorrow is uniquely qualified to lead GM’s global manufacturing team into this next era. His appointment underscores GM’s continued focus on building not only the cars of the future but also the manufacturing systems that make them possible.
