Suspension Ride Engineer (Vehicle Development) - J0048674

Overview

Suspension Ride Engineer (Vehicle Development) - J0048674

General Description : The Ride Engineer is responsible for vehicle dynamics attributes, leading tuning events, and delivering quality products to our customers. This position requires experience with vehicle dynamics, shock tuning, data analysis, and test method development. The Ride Engineer works with cross-functional teams and customers to develop new technology, demo cars, and advanced systems. Travel up to 50% may be international. The goal is to deliver best-in-class ride performance utilizing optimization metrics and advanced systems / tools.

Responsibilities

• Exhibits superior knowledge and execution of damper / ride development performance metrics, both internal processes and customer processes.
• Develop strong working relationships with customers, conveying professionalism and strong product knowledge.
• Coordinate ride work activities with customers to support program milestones.
• Directs the efforts of support technicians when conducting ride work at customer locations.
• Gather / analyze objective application data from lab and vehicle testing to support testing / tuning / evaluation.
• Analyze quality issues to determine root cause and present to Core Engineering team.
• Lead or support efforts to develop / improve test and tuning processes, procedures, supporting tools, and documentation.
• Build and test shock absorbers to support customer tuning activity and lab testing.
• Run shock absorber testing using various types of test machines.
• Operate computer controlled test equipment and data acquisition systems.
• Troubleshooting and problem solving skills required.
• Lead or participate in creative brainstorming sessions to solve technical challenges.
• Maintain accurate damper change logs and tuning reports during every step of the tuning process; organize information systematically and separately for each program.
• Manage more than 10 projects simultaneously with minimal oversight.
• Review, sign off, and release documentation.
• Train, mentor, and share experience.
• Flexible schedule with significant travel, especially during winter months.

Travel & Locations

This position may require extensive field support at local customer locations including Dearborn, Chelsea, and Milford. Non-local travel includes Arizona, California, Ohio, Japan, Spain, Belgium, Germany, China, and Australia.

Qualifications

Education : Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering or related field.

Experience : 5+ years of shock tuning or vehicle dynamics experience, or both.

Working Conditions

Physical Demands : Able to perform light physical work consistently and lift up to 75 pounds occasionally.

Travel : Ability to travel internationally for 2-3 week periods with little or no support.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Motor Vehicle Manufacturing

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