Engineer Staff

BorgWarner; Bellwood (AL); On-site; USD 115,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

BorgWarner Bellwood facility seeks a technical leader to drive complex friction technology projects from concept through production, coordinating design, testing and process development.

The role requires strong collaboration with global engineering teams, suppliers, and customers, guiding product definitions, PPAP processes, and reliability analyses to enable continual improvement and cost reduction.

Experience in DFMEA/SFMEA, APQP, and advanced manufacturing methods is essential.

Responsibilities

• Generates competitive design concepts for new products
• Creates and maintains program plans using Microsoft Project
• Completes work in a timely manner and reports results
• Prepares and presents technical reports with conclusions and recommendations
• Prepares PPAP reports and supports APQP processes
• Directs product testing through prototype requests, test requests, analysis of results, and test reports
• Evaluates, analyzes and initiates corrective actions relative to design and performance
• Performs failure analysis and leads 8D or 5P problem-solving
• Maintains and improves manufacturing methods related to friction materials and processes
• Collaborates with global engineering teams, vendors, and customers to ensure manufacturability and product success
• Guides customer reviews on product and project status and supports validation with customers

Job description

BASIC FUNCTION

Provides technical leadership for groups of complex projects within the team environment involving concept creation, concept selection, design, test and development of potential products and the modification and improvement of existing products, focused on core friction paper technology.

Responsible for developing and implementing innovative processes and technologies to support Friction product portfolio growth. Drive development of production line supplier road map.

NATURE AND SCOPE

Borg Warner manufactures friction elements, clutches, and other transmission systems for automobiles, industrial equipment, and aircraft. Borg Warner has a non-traditional heavy team organizational structure.

Since team projects include both new products and process development and the refinement of existing products, the incumbent's job responsibilities necessitates communication with a wide variety of individuals. Team activities will require contact with Production Departments, Prototype Build, Design/CAD, Quality Assurance, Purchasing, Financial, Engineering Test, and Management. In addition, there will be outside contacts with component vendors, engineering consultants, and most importantly the customer. The incumbent therefore must possess the necessary oral and written language skills to communicate clearly and effectively in a manner which generates positive results.

The incumbent is responsible for the planning, scheduling, execution, and coordination of all phases of his/her work from initiation of a project through production. Within the team environment, this includes defining the product, product design, and aiding in process selection. To facilitate product development, the incumbent must actively support and execute concurrent engineering activities within the Bellwood Plant and support those same activities with both vendors and customers. The incumbent is expected to rearrange priorities based on the changing needs of the team. As the product expert within the team environment, the incumbent provides technical product leadership to new and existing products. At times, it may be necessary for the incumbent to devise new and creative approaches to solve problems, to design new products, to utilize new materials, and to make cost reductions. The incumbent is expected to be able to resolve problems and overcome obstacles with the help of team support.

A continuing awareness of existing technology within the incumbent's area of specialty must be maintained through exposure to professional journals, attendance at trade shows, and formal course work. Due to the exposure to highly sensitive technical information, the incumbent must be a person of high integrity. Teamwork is essential to obtaining the required support needed to provide solutions to problems encountered.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Product Management:

• Generates competitive design concepts for new products
• Generates concepts for cost reductions to support BBOS goals
• Defines product performance requirements and specifications
• Insures that product drawings and layouts adhere to the model drawing formats
• Insures that drawings are released in a timely manner
• Adheres to Design Standards in creating concepts where possible
• Where necessary, uses Design Manual to design unique applications
• Develops SFMEA's and DFMEA's for all products
• Assists team in concept selection
• Directs benchmarking of competitive products
• Directs DOE robustness studies
• Drives innovation and process improvement in BorgWarner’s chemical process related manufacturing methods, including saturation, metal surface preparation, adhesive coating and bonding.
• Ensure tight collaboration with other global engineering teams in the plants and tech centers
• Take ownership for manufacturability of new friction materials, work close together with Onyx as the strategic partner for friction material supply

Project Management:

• Coordinates Layout of Extended Evidence Manuals
• Creates and maintains program plans through the use of Microsoft Project
• Completes work in a timely manner
• Prepares and presents technical reports with conclusions and recommendations
• Prepares PPAP reports
• Supports the APQP process
• Directs product testing through writing prototype requests, test requests, analyzing results drawing conclusions and writing test reports

Problem Prevention:

• Evaluates, analyzes and initiates corrective action relative to design and performance
• Performs failure analysis
• Continually improves abilities to solve problems and understand more about the customer's products
• Directs and 8D or 5P team
• Makes permanent and irreversible changes to systems to prevent recurrence of problems following each 8D or 5P

Customer Relations:

• Assists in completing RFQ's within BBOS time goals
• Assists in on-time delivery of prototype parts
• Conducts customer reviews on product and project status
• Schedules and directs customer validation
• Continues to promote and present proposals for complete component system to customer

Creative Problem-Solving, Effectively Present Solutions, Engineering Technology, Measure Solution Performance, Relationship Maintenance

Salary Range:

$115,200 - $162,000