Process Engineer

Analyze bonding process performance

• Analyze and audit bonding process failures
• Develop cost-effective solutions
• Assess the need for bonding process changes
• Conduct experiments, DOE, and statistical studies
• Transfer new bonding technologies, materials, and R&D developments

Investigate bonding process trends

• Investigate bonding process trends and correlations
• Investigate equipment failures
• Investigate quality system deviations
• Investigate reject causes

Plan and implement bonding process control schemes

• Plan and implement SPC systems
• Plan and implement shop floor trials
• Plan and implement parameter monitoring
• Plan and implement documentation systems (SOPs, work instructions, control plans, PFMEA)

Establish bonding testing methods

• Define process control targets

Implement design or practice changes

• Implement design or practice changes with hands-on involvement
• Conduct parameter tuning
• Conduct validation trials
• Provide production support

Conduct cost/benefit analysis

• Conduct cost/benefit analysis for bonding-related process improvements
• Conduct cost/benefit analysis for automation upgrades
• Conduct cost/benefit analysis for material substitutions

Participate in internal audits

• Participate as a member of the Internal Quality Audit Team

Lead bonding process design

• Lead bonding process design, including equipment selection
• Lead bonding process design, including parameter development
• Lead bonding process design, including production line integration

Prepare cost estimations

• Prepare cost estimations for bonding-related capital and improvement projects

Support supplier qualification and bid evaluation

• Support supplier qualification
• Support bid evaluation

Oversee equipment installation, qualification, debugging, and production ramp-up

• Oversee equipment installation
• Oversee equipment qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ)
• Oversee equipment debugging
• Oversee production ramp-up

Train employees

• Train full-time employees
• Train contractors
• Train agency employees

Develop training materials

• Develop training materials

Ensure operator certification and process compliance

• Ensure operator certification
• Ensure process compliance

About Dauch

Dauch Corporation is a premier Driveline and Metal Forming supplier serving the global automotive industry with a powertrain-agnostic product portfolio that supports electric, hybrid, and internal combustion vehicles. The company is headquartered in Detroit, MI, with operations that span 24 countries and more than 175 locations. Formed through the acquisition of Dowlais Group plc and its subsidiaries - GKN Automotive and GKN Powder Metallurgy, Dauch unites deep engineering roots with global manufacturing capabilities and an entrepreneurial spirit to move mobility forward.