Company is a leading global automotive tier one supplier with 72 locations in 14 countries. They are a Japanese-owned corporation with a highly diversified workforce that stresses the importance of its people with an emphasis on lifetime career development, team spirit and inclusion. Their Americas region corporate office supports 17 locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. They have an immediate need for a Product Engineer in our Reynoldsburg, OH corporate office. A hybrid remote work environment, excellent benefits package, flex time program, matching 401K plan and relocation package are available for qualifying candidates.

Position summary: Direct efforts within the Product Performance Engineering Section and between other company groups, customers, and suppliers during the entire product lifecycle. Have a high level of competency within company related products and/or relevant engineering problem solving experience. Ensure that our products meet or exceed customer and/or internal requirements. Identify and solve problems that aris with our products and processes. Mentor other engineers within the section.

Qualifications/Essential Skills and Experience:

·Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent technical / work experience

·Proficient on PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Outlook

·MS Project knowledge is a plus

·Strong understanding of manufacturing methods and a detailed understanding of product quality, cost, and delivery

·Strong knowledge of products and requirements within area of expertise

·Strong organizational skills

·Ability to apply PDCA cycle

Primary Position Responsibilities:

General Job Requirements

• Communication
• Prepares and presents technical reports and presentations (SPECS, reports, evaluations, emails)
• Collaborates between different groups to achieve overall company goals
• Manages customer and supplier relationships, expectations, negotiations and communication (outside stakeholders)
• Actively participates and engages in sectional, departmental, project, and customer meetings
• Planning
• ​​​​​​​Creates and maintains a schedule(s) to proactively manage areas of responsibility and resources across multiple projects (schedules / PIF / TMC / MBO / CM / Budget / etc.)
• Technical content provided to required party to deliverables (no ambiguity)
• Ensures no open items that could have been resolved prior to evaluations for responsible area (if open PPA presented)
• Promotes flexibility and dedication by effectively mitigating schedule related issues through the implementation of PPA and compression
• ​​​​​​​Technical Know-How
• ​​​​​​​Understands and locates applicable information (DWG, BOM, SPEC, Control Points)
• ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Understands the process and purpose of analyzing, solving and communicating problems and solutions
• Demonstrates overall engineering aptitude (engineering fundamentals)
• Has broad knowledge base of all aspects of company products, equipment and methods
• Effectively demonstrates high degree of technical expertise in specific skills
• ​​​​​​​Innovation
• ​​​​​​​Support department goals for internal benchmarking, R/DR, Pre-D, POC activities and development proposals

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Specific Job Requirements

• Engineering Implementation
• Performs SPEC Prediction and communication results
• Utilizes tools to support company data driven development (ex: FTA, FMEA, DRBFM, 5P, statistics)
• Understand and apply past problem history
• Efficiently identifies concerns, performs root cause and sets creative solution or path forward
• Lead (understand, negotiate, correlate and create) specificiation development with manufacturing feasibility
• Understand secondary (ex: cost, mfg., etc.) downstream impact when making engineering decisions
• Continuous Improvement
• Develop and propose reoccurrence prevention methods
• Seek out, understand and communicate new or revised regulations and requirements
• Can propose VA/VE ideas to meet targets without compromising specifications (ex: active zenbara participation, development proposals, etc.)
• Transfer technical knowledge to department associates
• Actively develops new tools, standards and procedures