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Come Innovate Motion with us

Mechanical Lead Engineer - Automotive Industry

At Johnson Electric, we work with the largest and greatest car manufacturers worldwide. Due to the expansion of our development globally and to maintain delivering high quality customer service and the best products to our partners, we are now looking for a Mechanical Lead Engineer for our e-System Thermal division.

Our Lead Engineers work directly with customers to understand their requirements, their needs, and then successfully convert these into the product design.

The Lead Engineers then manage the entire project, working with cross-functional teams, transferring knowledge to engineers to ensure we deliver the required product in time.

Your responsibilities will be to :

Successfully drive and manage the product development process for actuators and valves, while tracking against milestones and working within time and cost constraints
Design: turn research ideas and customer needs into technical plans according to internal processes, including change management
Testing/validation: track progress, review test results and communicate next steps or escalate if needed; reporting on regular basis to management and customers
Quality: support in case of quality issues, identification of root cause and development of sorting methods
Research and Development: collaborate with corporate engineering team for product development, collaborate with global engineering teams for components design and specifications, fixture designs and change management
V Cycle, FMEA, PLM: document according to the development process, periodical updates and living documentation
Environmental assessment: consider the environmental impact of new products and their manufacturing processes and how they would be safely disposed
Define standard engineering process and best practice in the Lessons Learned Database and apply them to every new development
Be the technical lead for all projects while adapting to the company's digital transformation and automation for Mechanics, HW Electronics, Software, DC-motor, Purchased components and others
Leading by example, be the leader who supports others in succeeding, acting as a role model

Our requirements :

Bachelor’s degree or above in mechanical engineering or similar
Minimum 3-5 years of experience in a modern manufacturing environment in the automotive industry (plastic and metal processing)
Excellent working knowledge of 3D engineering tools (preferably Unigraphics NX); the ASPICE environment; and FMEA processes
Experience in developing high volume series in the automotive field
The ability to work independently and systematically
Disciplined use of mandatory processes and natural authority
A reliable, and conscientious personality who can successfully co-ordinate the work of globally situated teams
Excellent communication skills in English. Additional language is an advantage (French/German)

What we offer :

A unique opportunity to be the person between two departments and be able to innovate & create
A challenging, dynamic, and interesting role where you contribute to driving business success
An exciting and very dynamic work environment
A truly international and multicultural work context