Validation Engineer

About the role

This position functions as a Validation Engineer within the Engineering Validation team. This team member will develop, optimize and manage test plans that are used to evaluate and/or validate YF interior products. Serve as technical resource for customer, federal, and/or YF test specifications and methods. Provides results reporting for completed tests and program status.

Responsibilities

• Development of test plans in accordance with customer, federal, and/or YF specific requirements.
• Program coordination of test plans, including samples, fixtures, schedules, sign-offs, witnessing tests, and sample reviews.
• Manage a test schedule using validation database, and/or customer specific format.
• Understand customer, federal, and/or YF specific requirements and test methods.
• Consistent use of validation process protocols such as Issue Tracking and reporting, ED/DV/PV, DVP Structure, Naming Conventions, PV First Time Pass, Spec Updating Process, budget approval and monitoring.
• Serve as key contact person between product development team and test labs.
• Develop optimization plans for test samples using acceptable practices.
• Support internal and/or external customer meetings and reviews as required.
• Provide clear instruction(s) on how a test should be setup and conducted.
• Ability to recommend appropriate test sample sizes (n) in accordance to test requirements.
• Review of data and reporting of all tests (including final disposition of results).
• Support product development team on pre/post-test sample reviews as required.
• Support product development team with assessment, recommendations, and/or analysis of results to resolve product non-conformances.
• Maintain program test requirement metrics including Production Validation “Right first time”.
• Maintains safe, secure, and clean work place by following 5S standards.
• Use validation database for test data and information. Support test report process by uploading files, loading test data and information, provide test summary and observations.
• Attend department meetings as required.
• Support test method development and/or continuous improvement projects as required.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree (Engineering / technical).
• Experience: 3 Years suggested minimum experience in testing and validation.
• Qualifications include: Knowledge of Automotive Test Methods and Automotive Test Specification, Test lab experience (equipment, methods, instruments), Post-test data interpretation and/or analysis experience, Experience with statistical practice and/or tools.

Essential Common Requirements for all Employees

• International Operating System (IOS): Understand, apply and meet all function-related IOS requirements.
• Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS): Understand, apply and meet all function-related EHS requirements.
• Product Safety: Understand, apply and meet all function-related Product Safety requirements.
• Compliance: Understand, apply and meet all function-related Compliance requirements
• Information Security: Understand, apply and meet all function-related IT / Information Security and confidentiality of YFAI information requirements.
• Must comply with all company policies and procedures.
• Employee must have the ability to work additional hours and / or overtime as needed or assigned to complete job duties on time.
• Ability to multitask, interact politely and professionally with customers, suppliers and vendors, and work cooperatively with employees at all levels.
• Ability to maintain predictable and regular attendance, arrive to designated location on time, or be at assigned location ready to work for assignment (plant, corporate office, or remote).