Application Engineering Specialist

Metalsa•Novi, MI

About The Position

Responsible for leading product design, performance, and reliability of new Frame or Cradle structural products programs. This involves coordinating with customers and internal company resources to ensure products meet time and quality requirements. The role serves as a liaison to customer engineering on structural products and all product-related issues, aiming to understand design priorities and manage engineering programs and projects. This includes proposing solutions within the current team or redirecting to the appropriate department. The specialist will consolidate agreements with customers and plants to define design, performance, and dimensional requirements for structural products, following MES standards. They will also generate ideas for design improvements to achieve lighter weight, stronger, better-performing, and lower-cost designs through brainstorming workshops or regular meetings with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). Support is provided for new product launch activities at the customer and Metalsa facilities, including weld quality inspection, ensuring build level to release, dimensional reports compliant with customer GD&T, and hole inspection. The role also involves supporting other technical departments, communicating overall activities and status (e.g., testing updates, prototypes), managing design release packages using the Metalsa Project System, and approving or rejecting deviations from the manufacturing process according to Metalsa Quality Standards. Additionally, the specialist will provide support to Innovation, DFSS, and De-Couple projects, lead product verification workshops, support quotation processes and service parts, monitor design KPIs, and participate actively in product improvement and engineering process efforts.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Industrial Engineering, Manufacture Engineering, or related discipline.
2 years of experience in the job offered, or in a manufacturing application engineering position.
Experience working in a cross-functional environment supporting the design and technical reviews of structural products and integrated chassis systems manufacturing.
Hands-on experience supporting the launch of new product, including managing test and engineering studies for product validation or improvement.
Experience can be gained concurrently.
Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience.

Responsibilities

Lead product design, performance, and reliability of new Frame or Cradle structural products programs.
Serve as a liaison to customer engineering on structural products and manage engineering programs and projects.
Consolidate agreements with customers and plants to determine design, performance, and dimensional requirements.
Generate design improvement ideas for lighter weight, stronger, better performing, and lower cost designs.
Support new product launch activities at the customer and Metalsa facilities.
Manage design release packages (BOM, 3D, 2D, etc.) using the Metalsa Project System.
Approve or reject deviations from the manufacturing process following Metalsa Quality Standards.
Provide support to Innovation, DFSS, and De-Couple projects.
Lead product verification workshops according to MPS to ensure feasible product.
Support quotation process, service parts, in early stages.
Monitor design KPIs and provide engineering performance data for the Quality Management System.
Participate actively in all efforts for product improvement and the engineering process.