Product Engineer

About the role

The Product Engineer is responsible for providing axle product leadership to the global engineering team. The main responsibilities of this position are to lead research and design activities on new products, quality issues, VAVE, and existing product enhancement opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Interpret customer technical specifications and use them to correctly design axle components, specifically carriers, to meet Dana design practices, customer packaging interfaces, and Dana/customer performance requirements.
• Work closely with manufacturing engineering, purchasing, and estimating team to ensure product designs are both cost effective and manufacturable while meeting all requirements.
• Provide technical support to customers, sales, purchasing, manufacturing plants, assembly plants, and other engineering departments during sourcing, vehicle development, launch, and production.
• Make key decisions on proposals, priorities, and requirements following Dana’s Design Review process.
• Author and/or review DFMEAs, DVP&Rs, engineering work orders, materials, prototype samples, and test lab service requests, and then evaluate prototype samples and test lab set-ups and results.
• Author and/or review technical reports, presentations, and axle product drawings.
• Evaluate the merits of change and deviation requests applying acceptable engineering practices and coordinate the implementation of such changes once approved by the customer.
• Support Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities and supplier PPAP submissions.
• Mentor and train less experienced axle engineers and technicians.
• Review monthly customer vehicle warranty data and manage necessary actions for improvement.
• Perform benchmarking and competitive axle analyses.
• Develop and implement VAVE cost savings projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in mechanical engineering or related technical field.
• 3+ years of experience in drivetrain engineering in the automotive, commercial vehicle, and/or off-highway industries.
• Casting, forging, forming, fabricating, stamping, and/or machining experience is preferred.
• Bearing, fastener, seal, and/or shaft experience is also preferred.
• Proficiency in technical drawings, GD&T, authoring FEA requests, and interpreting FEA results.
• Experience using any CAD software and/or Siemens Teamcenter is preferred but not required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Teams, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.