Senior Product Validation Engineer

GILLIG•Livermore, CA

23h•$75,000 - $155,000•Onsite

About The Position

GILLIG Engineering is responsible for the development, customization, and configuration of GILLIG’s clean technology heavy-duty transit buses. We are committed to developing the most reliable buses that connect communities, eliminates congestion, and contributes to a greener environment. Our engineers are engaged in designing, analyzing, testing, launching, and problem solving across a wide range of technical areas. Validation Engineering is responsible for the testing, simulation, and evaluation of systems, components and vehicle platforms for GILLIG’s continuously evolving product line. It is instrumental in ensuring design requirements are met and overall performance meets the harsh demands of the heavy-duty transit bus duty-cycle. We are looking for a Senior Product Validation Engineer to join our Validation group. The Senior Validation Engineer will be guided by technical requirements to conduct complex system and vehicle level design verification (DV) and production validation (PV) tests to confirm achievement of these requirements within established program timelines. The role also provides opportunities, with the creation of tools and processes, for traceability of DFMEA to DVP&R to final reports. This is a hands-on, on-site role at our Livermore, CA plant and reports to the Manager of Validation and may also receive direction and guidance from more senior engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
Minimum 5 years of experience within the Engineering industry
Experience in automotive and/or heavy-duty vehicle testing/validation
Experience working with internal and external customers, engineering service suppliers, and supervising 3rd party facilities
High operational knowledge of FMVSS, ADA, APTA Bus Procurement Guidelines, SAE HD vehicle standards, NFPA
Experience with “hands-on” troubleshooting, product assembly, prototyping, testing, and validation activities (on site and at remote locations)
Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with team members, customers, internal and external suppliers.
High operational knowledge with testing processes, including creating and executing test plans on vehicles supporting program timelines
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

Responsibilities

Utilize program targets, system requirements and various control documents to develop and release comprehensive DV/PV plans, reports, recommendations
Lead the planning and execution of DV/PV plans for associated vehicle systems and the entire vehicle. Report results, document non-conformances and collaborate with related design, systems and controls engineers to identify root cause of any failures, recommendations for improved specifications and opportunities for refinement.
Design and configure test methods, scripts and/or simulations to develop and validate system capabilities prior to vehicle integration.
Work closely with the Engineering teams to develop and deploy instrumentation and data acquisition strategies, data analysis methodologies and best practices for planning and conducting effective and timely testing activities.
Review test plans, methods, analysis, and reports of peers and less senior engineers for input, improvement, accuracy, and overall quality.
Coordinate and document requirements, design verification and validation with component/subsystem/system suppliers or external testing resources/facilities to support overall program validation plan.
Gather and refine complex data sets into useable information and reports.
Support the maintenance and calibration of test equipment and instrumentation.
Lead activities to develop and deploy engineering standards for defining and managing requirements along with the associated design verification (DV) and production validation (PV) plans, including complete traceability between requirements, test results and test reports.