Platform Maturity Lead
About The Position
BorgWarner Noblesville LLC seeks a Platform Maturity Lead based out of our office at 2151 E Lincoln Rd, Kokomo, Indiana 46902. This is a hybrid position requiring the employee to work from the office and from home, necessitating a reasonable commuting distance. The role involves ensuring all automotive electronic engineering work products for the vehicle platform (systems, software, hardware) align with maturity level definitions, escalating deviations, and ensuring platform deliverables meet timing. The Lead will evaluate project work for effectiveness and technical adequacy, apply electrical engineering principles for quality standards, and represent the platform in discussions for New Business Opportunities (NBO) quote activities and global projects using Cascade Matrix (CM) definitions. Responsibilities also include ensuring CM pilot tool utilization, driving requirements for variant management tool development, determining product/system requirements, supporting system integration tasks, building and owning feature/solution maturity for a KPI dashboard, and supporting variant control definition and deployment. The role involves project planning for feature/solution maturity evolution, directing activities related to automotive electronic equipment design and maintenance, tracking issues and changes, ensuring deliverable readiness for reviews, following up on product quality, interfacing with the solution center for NBO quotes, analyzing system requirements, managing project risks, facilitating communication, identifying process improvements, and researching green electronics technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Electronics Engineering
- 120 months of experience in job offered or related
- Automotive experience in at least two of the following areas: HV Inverter design; ECUs/Controller; Software; Controls; electric machine; drive unit design; or modelling and simulation for electric propulsion components or systems
- Experience in at least one of the following areas: controllers; inverters; or eDrive units
- Experience taking programs to production in automotive
- Experience in at two of the following engineering theories: Powertrain Systems, Controls Systems, or Automotive HV Electronics
- Experience in project leadership
Responsibilities
- Ensure all automotive electronic engineering work products for the automotive vehicle platform including systems, software and hardware are aligned and adhere to maturity level definitions, escalate any deviations and request support in timely manner to ensure platform deliverables meet timing
- Evaluate project work to ensure effectiveness, technical adequacy, or compatibility in the resolution of complex electronics engineering problems
- Apply electrical engineering principles to ensure platform assets meet quality standards and stakeholder expectations
- Represent platform in discussions with solution center on all New Business Opportunities (NBO) quote activities in North America and support Global projects representing platform work products, using the Cascade Matrix (CM) definitions and discuss existing or potential electronics engineering projects or products
- Ensure CM pilot tool utilization and drives requirements for Variant management tool development with global tools and IT
- Determine product or automotive system requirements
- Support System Project Lead in planning electronic systems integration tasks for functional testing
- Build and own feature and solution maturity for KPI dashboard, including maturity level definition, auditing the data for data consistency and accuracy
- Help with EPP efficiency KPI (with better correlation the maturity of our assets and the needs of the projects for a realistic KPI related to usability and deployment)
- Support and drive the variant control definition and deployment based on current work on CM and its future version in collaboration with systems engineering Center of Excellence (COEs) and Center of Competence (CoCs)
- Develop a comprehensive project plan, to ensure features and solutions evolve in maturity with every platform release. This planning need to support functionality based development in platform
- Direct or coordinate activities concerned with design, manufacture, construction, installation, maintenance, operation, or modification of automotive electronic equipment, products, or systems
- Track activities, issues, and changes, ensuring timely resolution and documentation
- Ensure readiness of deliverables for release and gate reviews, meeting all required criteria
- Follow up on product quality status, ensuring compliance with standards and requirements
- Interface with solution center to ensure NBO quotes capture platform reuse and optimize electronic Engineering Development & Design (ED&D) estimates
- Analyze automotive electronics system requirements, capacity, cost, or customer needs to determine project feasibility
- Identify, assess, and manage project risks, developing mitigation strategies to minimize impact
- Facilitate effective communication among project team members and stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment
- Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices to enhance project performance
- Research or develop new green electronics technologies in automotive propulsion and controls systems
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
