Product Validation Engineer

Tstna•Reynoldsburg, OH

6d•Onsite

About The Position

TS Tech Americas, Inc. is seeking a Product Validation Engineer to support design verification and product validation activities for automotive seating and interior products throughout the product development lifecycle. This role involves translating requirements into test plans, conducting physical tests, evaluating results, and documenting findings under the guidance of experienced engineers. The engineer will collaborate with various cross-functional teams, including customers, design engineers, test technicians, suppliers, manufacturing, and quality, to ensure products meet safety, performance, quality, cost, and schedule requirements. This position is located in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Automotive, Materials, Industrial, Manufacturing, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
Typically, 0-3 years of relevant engineering experience. Engineering co-op, internship, Formula SAE, laboratory, research, capstone, or comparable hands-on project experience may satisfy part of the experience expectation.
Foundational understanding of engineering mechanics, materials, measurement, data analysis, and structured problem solving, with the ability to apply these fundamentals to defined assignments with guidance.
Interest in learning standards and test requirements applicable to automotive seating and interior products, including FMVSS, CMVSS, UN/ECE, IIHS protocols, OEM customer specifications, ASTM/SAE standards, and internal company requirements.
Ability to support creation and maintenance of DVP&R schedules, including test conditions, samples, acceptance criteria, timing, status, and reporting requirements, with review by an experienced engineer.
Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, customer specifications, test procedures, and technical data with guidance, and to identify questions, missing information, or conflicting requirements.
Ability to review CAE and physical test results with guidance, recognize likely failure modes, and support root-cause investigations and countermeasure evaluations with Design Engineers.
Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
Clear technical writing, organization, communication, attention to detail, teamwork, curiosity, and willingness to ask questions and escalate concerns are required.

Responsibilities

Support creation, maintenance, and communication of Design Verification Plans and Reports (DVP&R), including validation scope, test conditions, sample quantities, acceptance criteria, responsibility, schedule, status, risks, and results.
Review customer, regulatory, internal, and supplier specifications with guidance.
Identify missing, conflicting, or unclear requirements and promptly raise them to the responsible engineer.
Prepare test requests, sample plans, fixtures, instrumentation, check sheets, and other documentation needed to execute validation activities.
Set up, conduct, monitor, and document physical product testing after applicable qualification and safety training.
Operate authorized test equipment and data-acquisition systems within established procedures.
Coordinate day-to-day work with test technicians, suppliers, prototype groups, outside laboratories, Design Engineers, manufacturing, and quality personnel to support safe and on-time completion of assigned activities.
Collect, organize, graph, and analyze test data.
Check data quality, document observations and failure modes, compare results with acceptance criteria, and prepare draft technical reports for review.
Review CAE reports with guidance to understand assumptions, boundary conditions, load cases, acceptance criteria, results, and differences between analytical and physical test results.
Communicate questions and required follow-up.
Participate in root-cause analysis and countermeasure evaluation.
Use evidence from testing, measurements, drawings, and specifications to support conclusions.
Seek review before changing test methods, acceptance criteria, sample quantities, or final technical conclusions.