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About this Position
The Connection Systems team has an exciting product engineering opportunity located in Warren, OH at our Champion Technical Center. Under the direction of a product engineering supervisor, the successful candidate will serve as a product engineer working on the next generation of high power connection systems for electric vehicles.
Responsibilities and Duties
- As a product engineer, you will own the mechanical/electrical design of our next generation high voltage products from preliminary concept to prototype to production. This includes:
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- Detailed design ownership - from concept to final design
- Developing prototypes
- Design/Product Validation (DV/PV)
- High volume production implementation (PPAP)
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- 3+ years' experience with automotive product design experience or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Experience in Design for Manufacturability (DFM), and Design for Assembly (DFA), statistical tolerance analysis techniques, functional dimensioning, and geometric tolerancing (GDT), with focus on high volume manufacturing
- Requires excellent communication skills (verbal and written) including emails, preparing slide presentations, and presenting technical concepts to multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience in driving challenging electro-mechanical architecture, managing trade-offs, design selection, and manufacturing constraints
- Proficiency in 3D CAD (NX preferred), wide knowledge of basic engineering materials and manufacturing processes
- Experience in prototyping quick-turn, preliminary concepts to enable architecture down-selects and data collection
- Working knowledge of FEA/moldflow/thermal analysis principles
- Creative problem solving, with experience in failure analysis, root cause investigation, and DOE creation
- Project/program management experience
- Strong results-orientation and execution characteristics
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with a strong ability to work with a team
- Ability to effectively organize, prioritize and accomplish multiple conflicting tasks, make intelligent, timely decisions and solve problems independently
- Resourcefully innovate and adapt in a rapidly changing environment
Traits We Seek
- Curiously investigate everything - ability to solve problems analytically, creatively and collaboratively
- Lead with confidence - thought leaders who empower those around them
- Learn by doing - an entrepreneurial mindset that's driven by hands-on experimentation
- Embrace resilience - seeing every challenge as a learning opportunity and invitation to grow
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