Resident Engineer - Vehicle Development & Customer Liaison

Yazaki North America, Inc.; Canton Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive compensation

401K match

Tuition assistance

Generous holiday schedule

Job summary

Yazaki North America, Inc. is seeking a Resident Engineer to join the ECI Team in Canton, MI. The role acts as the Voice of the Customer at the client site, coordinating engineering activities, requirements, issue resolution, and launch support to ensure successful product development.

The candidate will manage engineering changes, track actions, and facilitate cross-functional communication between customer teams and Yazaki engineers, supporting design reviews, DVP&Rs, and launches.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• 5 to 7 years of automotive engineering, application engineering, systems engineering, product development, or customer support experience.
• Automotive OEM and/or Tier 1 supplier experience preferred.
• Experience with wiring harnesses, vehicle electrical distribution systems, or automotive electronics preferred.
• Knowledge of APQP, DFMEA/FMEA, DVP& R, engineering change management, and product development processes.
• Ability to read engineering drawings, schematics, and technical specifications.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Voice of the Customer and ensure customer expectations, concerns, requirements, and priorities are communicated and executed within Yazaki.
• Serve as the primary customer-facing engineering representative and technical liaison.
• Manage and track engineering changes, ECRs, ECPs, WERs, RDDPs, and related documentation.
• Coordinate requirements, technical discussions, deliverables, and timing commitments with the Engineering Project Manager.
• Track open issues, drive corrective actions, and manage escalation activities through closure.
• Facilitate cross-functional communication between customer teams and Yazaki engineering disciplines.
• Support customer meetings, PDT meetings, design reviews, warranty reviews, peer reviews, and change approval activities.
• Coordinate prototype, mule, validation, pilot, and pre-production build activities.
• Support vehicle build events and customer integration activities.
• Provide engineering support for product launches and manage launch-related concerns.
• Coordinate build issue resolution activities between customer and internal teams.
• Support vehicle evaluations, benchmark testing, and root-cause analysis activities.
• Acquire customer specifications and diagnostic requirements.
• Support requirements clarification and communication between customer and development teams.
• Participate in FMEA, validation, testing, and problem-solving activities.
• Support DVP& R and customer validation activities as required.

Skills

Voice of the Customer

Customer liaison

Cross-functional communication

Documentation management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Systems Engineering or related field

Tools

APQP

DFMEA/FMEA

DVP& R

Engineering change management

Job description

Yazaki North America, Inc. is seeking a Resident Engineer to join the ECI Team in Canton, MI. The role acts as the Voice of the Customer at the client site, coordinating engineering activities, requirements, issue resolution, and launch support to ensure successful product development.

The candidate will manage engineering changes, track actions, and facilitate cross-functional communication between customer teams and Yazaki engineers, supporting design reviews, DVP&Rs, and launches.