Senior Engineering Manager, Brake Controls SW & Vehicle Apps

HL Mando America Corp•Novi, MI

About The Position

The Senior Engineering Manager, Brake Controls SW & Vehicle Applications role is responsible for leading the Brake Controls, Software and Vehicle Application team, ensuring all program elements are delivered on time, meet performance targets, and comply with Mando and OEM requirements/specifications with zero defects. This role supports a variety of products, with the focus being Brake Controls/Apply (IDB (aka E-Boost), MoC and electromechanical actuators such as EMB.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
Minimum of 10 years of automotive product engineering experience working in product development environment with OEM customer interaction with preferred focus on Electronic Braking Systems (Electrical Parking Brake, Motor on Caliper, Electronic Stability Control, E-Boost, ABS).
Minimum of 5 years of experience in management or technical leadership position.
Familiarity with Vector products, in house programming and diagnostic S/W and how to set up, run and root cause instrumentation issues during testing, tuning and validation.
Proven leadership skills with the ability to engage and drive team performance.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to connect academic knowledge with practical problems

Responsibilities

Ensure the IDB program is on time, on target and no defects while meeting Mando and OEM program requirements/specifications. Act as main customer interface and interface to Mando Korea IDB team.
Regional technical leader that communicates status and technical issues with customer. Communicate with other regions on IDB related issues and to core teams in Korea. Establish maintain a relationship with customers
Communicate with customers to gather market intel and leads for future business opportunities.
Manage a team to meet all program goals with on time deliveries. Support the team by periodically reviewing data to ensure progress and goal are being met. Identify if additional support is required from other regions
Assist with ABS/TCS/ESC tuning Engineers and provide feedback to customer subjective and objective performance requirements. Work with Engineers and Software team to communicate tuning status and assist tuning related issues.
Work together with H/W and S/W design teams, coordinating efforts to complete requirement analysis and respond to customer, complying with the requirements that can be met and negotiating exceptions for the S/W requirements that cannot be met.
Collaborate with electrical engineers and S/W design engineers, coordinating efforts to prepare materials and support technical review. Support design engineers in obtaining customer information for electrical design requirements and S/W development.
Work with Sr. S/W Engineer to create, maintain and track S/W development and release timing, for the engineering deliverables (such as vehicle level releases) and work with application team on supporting manufacturing deliverables for the program.
Conduct open issues and PDT meetings: create, track and maintain open issues list and collaborate with TPM on efforts to close open issues.
Collaborate with H/W and S/W design team contributing to efforts to collect information needed for each gate review and approval, with help and support from the design engineer. Support functional safety engineer for customer Functional Safety peer reviews about S/W features and Safety design concepts at each phase.
Manufacturing, launch and warranty support: Support plant test machine algorithm and test method as S/W point of view. Provide technical support to Customer plant when they prepare a production. Investigate warranty issues and do initial check the returned part to help quality team.