Highlights
Reporting to the Manager, the person in this role will support Powertrain Design Electrification department's objectives to: Provide attractive and competitively designed, locally produced motors for hybrid and electric transaxles for our internal and end-user customers. Both of these roles may require adjustment to the design of product by working with local part and raw material suppliers based on their unique capabilities, processes, and engineering innovations.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Ann Arbor, MI |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $56.02 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a recognized prominent global enterprise in the automotive sector, listed among the top 50 companies in the Global Fortune rankings. As a leading player in the global automotive industry, our client manufactures vehicles in 27 countries and effectively markets them across over 170 countries and regions worldwide.
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Job Title: Powertrain Design Engineer Motor
Location: Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Duration: 7 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- Client's Powertrain Design Department is looking for a passionate and highly motivated engineer to forward our development and localization of Hybrid and Electric drive units.
- The primary responsibility of this role is to support motor development in North America.
- To seek out North American ideas and opportunities to help Client improve our products quality, performance, safety and cost.
- Reporting to the Manager, the person in this role will support Powertrain Design Electrification department's objectives to:
- Provide attractive and competitively designed, locally produced motors for hybrid and electric transaxles for our internal and end-user customers.
- Integrate our electric drive units to our North American developed vehicles for local production.
- Both of these roles may require adjustment to the design of product by working with local part and raw material suppliers based on their unique capabilities, processes, and engineering innovations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with suppliers, affiliates, and Client Motor Corporation (Japan).
- Create and modify design of hybrid electric motor components and sub-assemblies to meet all engineering requirements.
- Ability to problem solve, issue design specifications (3D models, 2D drawings, technical reports, assembly instructions), and interact with others in a fast-paced multicultural work environment.
- Integration of electrified drive units into on-vehicle and off-vehicle designs prioritizing safety, customer appeal, competitiveness, and on-time development.
- Coordinate all related development activities up through validation and launch, including problem solving of technical issues.
- Partner with design engineers in Japan and Local Suppliers for the design and development of motor components and assembly design.
- Participate in design, evaluation, manufacturing, and benchmarking activities at events locally and internationally (as necessary).
- Report weekly to management and in related Obeya meetings.
Requirements:
Added Bonus If You Have:
- This project is currently for 6 months with the possibility of extension.
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering discipline.
- Experience using CAD/CAE, including the ability to read, interpret and modify drawings.
- A working knowledge of DRBFM and DFMEA.
- Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint.
- Electrified transaxle/motor design, including automotive OEM/supplier component to vehicle integration experience (including Co-op/Internship).
- Design knowledge for magnets, coils, e-steels or similar materials.
- Experience working in partnership with Quality, Manufacturing and/or Purchasing to identify and resolve issues.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.