Role: Exterior/Exception - Engineering & IT - (4878-1)
Location: Newark, CA
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
- Test and Validation Engineer – Body Engineering
Essential Duties:
- Own and drive hardware testing and validation duties for body systems and components such as instrument panel, center console, door trims, soft trims, hard trims
- and DMS (Displays, mechanism and switches) as well as vehicle accessories.
- Coordinate tests from setup through execution and reporting, including test planning, development, execution, inspections, root cause analysis, and data processing.
- Design and fabricate custom test fixtures for complex bench test set ups.
- Ensure test findings are well-documented and quickly communicated, root cause test failures and work with design, quality and manufacturing partners.
- Tracking test schedules and timelines with external test houses and T1 suppliers to assure test schedules are met, and test results are accurate and as expected.
- Test parts quantity definition and parts logistic coordination.
- Create and maintain Client validation documentation (DVPR, test specifications, test protocols, test reports) and participate in root cause analysis with the design release engineering team where applicable.
- Coordinate and manage internal OEM high level tests.
- Review test reports and prepare test results summary to communicate to DREs.
- Drive DVP’s sign-off for PPAP/LQP on time to enable product salability (SOP).
- Travel to test sites is required.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- 5+ years of automotive interior or exterior validation and testing experience at OEM, Tier-1 supplier, or Test Lab.
- Experience using CAD software such as CATIA, 3DX or solid works.
- Experience with interiors materials (plastics, polymers, fabrics, foams) and/or interiors design and assembly strategies (clips, adhesives, fasteners, welding,) is preferred.
- Experience with common automotive manufacturing and finishing processes (plastic injection molding, press lamination, hand wrapping, back injection, painting, chrome
- plating, IMD/IML, etc.)
- Knowledge of validation milestones along the overall Product Development Process.
- Experience using standard lab test equipment such as environmental chambers, shaker tables, power supplies, DAQs, force transducers, torque transducers, pneumatic and-or servo electric actuators, thermocouples, strain gages, LVDTs, etc.
- Experience with FMVSS and other international regulatory requirements for interior components.
- Experience with Atlassian Jira, and Confluence
- Great organizational skills and interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm – 100% - Production Line
- Interaction level with manager/team – will be able to interact to multiple team members
- Chance for extension later? – Yes
- Expected working hours – 40 hours
- Location Requirements – Newark, CA
What makes this role interesting? - Company is unique in its own right, breaking into a future of sustainable automative industry. Exciting and dynamics environment for diverse work on futuristic focus.
Team Culture – Family Oriented, Collaborative
Disqualifiers – attendance issues, unreliable
Best vs. Average – reliable
Performance Indicators – standard KPIs
Equipment or Software Required: Badge, email, Engineering Windows laptop
