Valve Design Engineer
DISHERMuskegon Heights, MI
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Job Description
Valve Design Engineer - Muskegon Heights, MI
DISHER is currently partnering with an innovative company in the automotive industry to find a Valve Design Engineerto join their team. This full-time position will be accountable for providing cost-effective robust product designs that meet the customer specification.
What it’s like to work here:
This global company was founded nearly 100 years ago and founded in Germany. They operate production and development facilities across Europe, North America, and Asia, ensuring proximity to major automotive markets and customers. They are a global supplier of advanced automotive components and systems, specializing in technologies that enhance engine and transmission performance while reducing fuel consumption and emissions. Their product portfolio includes variable valve timing (VVT) systems, transmission control valves (DCT), and solutions for thermal management in electric and hybrid vehicles. Additionally, this company develops components for hydrogen-powered fuel cell systems, supporting the transition to sustainable mobility. If you’re a self-motivated problem solver passionate about engineering and product development, this is an excellent opportunity to grow in a dynamic environment.
What you will get to do:
- Responsible for developing an eVX design that meets customer requirements while fitting into our global product strategy. Including calculations that the valve will meet flow, leakage, response, requirements, etc.
- Choosing proper materials, processes, coating, etc. to ensure product will meet customer performance lifetime durability requirements.
- Work with CAD designer to create drawings while verifying the accuracy of the drawings.
- Work closely with application and test engineers on DVP&R development and execution.
- Performa data and part analysis and accurate reporting of testing(s).
- Participate in design reviews to ensure accurate tolerance stacks are prepared both for dimensional and geometric tolerances’, that appropriate modeling has been performed with acceptable results, lessons learned are reviewed, and design guidelines are used.
- Work with the team to ensure that the product design meets the cost target.
- Ensure that the product design meets the intended function defined by the customer specification.
- Ensure that the base-level mechanical, electrical, magnetic, hydraulic and pneumatics physics are understood, modeled, and validated for the product design.
- Ensure that a thorough and accurate DFMEA is prepared early in the development process and actively participate in DFEMAs.
- Ensure that the product design meets the cost target set forth by the customer.
- Ensure that the materials used in the product design are appropriate for the application and do not violate any customer requirements.
- Ensure that the Account Manager, Mfg. Engineer, and Quality Engineer are involved early in the development process.
- Ensure that DFM and DFA techniques are employed early in the development process.
- Plan and Execute Design of Experiments (DOE) as necessary to support root-cause analysis.
- Analyze test data to determine if design meets functional and performance specifications.
- Work closely with Test Engineers to ensure that all aspects of test development are in agreement with customer specification
What will make you successful:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and five to seven years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Ability to visualize three dimensional features and geometry.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to publish clear, concise, and accurate Engineering Reports.
- Experience with stepper motor design is preferred. Ability to translate complex customer performance specifications into robust cost-effective product designs.
- Ability to understand the magnetic, electronic, and hydraulic physics that define the forces acting in the electro-hydraulic valve system.
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