Company:
Yanfeng International Automotive Technology Co. Ltd.
Location: Novi
Closing Date: 20/10/2024
Salary: £100 - £125 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Global. Collaborative. Innovative. Together, we will transform the automotive interiors industry. Together, we will redefine the ways people experience life onboard vehicles.
Manager Engineering, Frontal Airbags
United States - MI - Novi
Job Description
Job Summary
Lead a group of Lead Engineers, Engineers, and Technicians to develop a multi-part product (system), or multi-step processes to a set of defined specifications.
Responsibilities
- Understand customer engineering organization and build relationships with engineering and technology key “decision makers.”
- Understand customer product issues and opportunities for product improvements.
- Ensure customer engineering groups understand Yanfeng technical capabilities.
- Support teams with program specific issues.
- Inform customer engineering leadership of significant launch, production or timing related issues (“no surprises”).
- Provide single contact point for escalation to customer engineering.
- Provide Leadership to the Group following the YFSS (Yanfeng Safety Systems) leadership expectation model.
- Make complex decisions and guidance of securing new business awards.
- Manage resources and budgets from award through SOP.
- Communicate with the teams and peer engineering managers to share best business practices through LEAN Engineering.
- Ensure documents, processes and procedures are managed and maintained using all YFSS standards and systems (BOS, PRP, Lean, CPP, CMP, EPIC, BEP, etc).
- Successfully fulfill people leadership and people development responsibilities, including providing mentorship and support of the team; succession planning; resource planning, etc.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering (Mechanical, or similar), or equivalent experience in a technical career path.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years’ experience in the automotive industry.
- Experience in safety restraints highly desired.
- Experience leading programs and teams with full engineering responsibility.
- Airbag design, development, and launch expertise demonstrated on multiple programs – preferably with North American OEMs.
- Airbag module testing and performance analysis experience.
- Knowledge of plastic part design for injection molding.
- Knowledge of Injection Mold Tooling (gates, parting lines, action, etc.) as it relates to part design.
- Plastic resin and materials selection knowledge as related to airbag modules.
- Experience using CAE as a design and product optimization tool.
- Dimensional management and tolerancing experience.
- Ability to develop component and sub-assembly GD&T tolerancing and tolerance stack-up studies in support of manufacturing & craftsmanship goals.
- Ability to communicate in a professional and respectful manner in a team environment. Identify and address issues in a direct, “data driven” manner.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously.
- Chinese- or Spanish language skills desirable, but not required.
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic; “coaching” leadership style.
- Available as needed for domestic and international travel, up to 25%.
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