Menedżer Działu Aplikacji_Application Engineering Manager (Turbos & Thermal Technologies)

BorgWarner; Rzeszów; On-site; PLN 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

BorgWarner in Poland is seeking an Application Engineering Manager to lead a global team delivering turbocharger matching, engine-air system optimization, and product validation for customer programs.

You will drive technical leadership, root-cause analysis, and cross-functional program execution while developing budgets and staff to meet ambitious goals. Travel to customers, suppliers, and sites is required.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree with 10+ years in automotive propulsion systems.
• Expertise in commercial vehicle turbocharger applications, matching, and product validation.
• Experience leading a global customer-facing engineering team.
• Proven skills in root-cause analysis and technical negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global team of Application Engineers on customer programs.
• Provide technical leadership in turbocharger matching and engine-air system optimization.
• Drive field investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Manage PDP execution, deliverables, milestones, and cross-functional relations.
• Develop budgets, resource planning, and team development.

Skills

People leadership

Customer relationship management

Technical negotiations

Root-cause analysis

Structured problem solving

Communication

Business judgment

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Turbocharger matching tools

Engine simulation

Air-system modeling

CAD

Engineering lifecycle systems

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Application Engineering Manager leads a team supporting global commercial vehicle customer programs, providing organizational and technical leadership in customer applications, turbocharger matching, engine-system optimization, product validation, and complex problem solving. The role drives customer satisfaction, program execution, business growth, resource planning, and team development. The Manager serves as the senior technical escalation point for the organization.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Lead, develop, and support a team of Application Engineers responsible for global customer programs. Provide technical leadership in turbocharger matching, engine air-system optimization, product validation, technical risk management, and complex problem resolution. Lead field investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions for customer and product issues. Build strong customer relationships and serve as the senior technical escalation point. Lead technical and program negotiations involving requirements, validation scope, timing, risks, changes, resources, and customer commitments. Drive execution of PDP activities, customer deliverables, and program milestones through global cross-functional coordination. Champion process improvements, lessons learned, and engineering efficiency initiatives. Lead acquisition activities including technical strategy, feasibility assessments, forecasting, quotation assumptions, workload planning, and validation spending. Manage team resources, budgets, priorities, workload, and forecasts. Coach and develop team members through hiring, performance management, capability development, retention, and succession planning. Drive accountability, safety, customer focus, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement. Travel to customer, supplier, test, manufacturing, and company locations as required.

QUALIFICATIONS

Engineering degree with 10+ years of experience in automotive, commercial vehicle, turbocharger, engine, air-management, or propulsion-system engineering. Demonstrated expertise in commercial vehicle turbocharger applications, matching, engine-system optimization, and product validation. Ability to independently review and challenge matching studies, engineering analyses, validation plans, test results, and technical recommendations. Proven people leadership experience in a customer-facing global engineering environment. Strong background in customer relationship management, technical negotiations, structured problem solving, and root-cause analysis. Experience with resource planning, budget management, project forecasting, workload prioritization, and performance reporting. Excellent communication, leadership, business judgment, and organizational skills.

PREFERRED

Advanced degree in engineering, business, or a related field. Commercial vehicle OEM experience supporting global customer programs. Experience with engine simulation, air-system modeling, turbocharger matching tools, data analysis, CAD, and engineering lifecycle systems. Experience leading supervisors, technical leads, or geographically distributed teams. Flexibility to support urgent customer escalations and global collaboration.

Career Opportunities

We manage talent as seriously as we manage our businesses and encourage you to learn about our proud history, strong culture, technologies, and vision for the future. We offer positions locally and globally with over 90 locations in 19 countries.

You may see the list of requirements and feel you do not meet all of them. However, remember that BorgWarner thinks differently.

BorgWarner is a global product leader in delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions. We are a company of innovators and independent thinkers that brings together talented employees, meaningful work and amazing technology in a unique environment. At BorgWarner we constantly work towards our vision of a clean and energy-efficient world.

Our Culture BorgWarner promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive environment, honors integrity, strives for excellence, commits to responsibility for our communities and the environment, and builds on the power of collaboration. We believe the health and safety of our employees are a top priority.