Job Summary 

Provide single point technical contact on engineering and technical topics and issues.  Direct reports may include product engineers and designers.    

Main Responsibilities 

• Understand customer engineering organization, and build relationships with engineering and technology key “decision makers”.  
• Understand customer product issues and opportunities for productimprovements. 
• Ensure OEM engineering groups understand technical and manufacturing capabilities.  
• Support teams with program specific issues.  
• Inform customer engineering leadership of significant launch or production related issues (“no surprises”).  
• Provide single contact point to OEM engineering. 
• Provides Leadership to his Group following the YFAI leadership expectation model   
• Prepares strategic decisions   
• Plan resources and budgets   
• Communicateswith peer engineering managers and shares best business practices   
• Leads group of lead engineers and engineers / technicians to develop a multi part product (system) or multi step processes to a set of requirements defined by “customer”.   
• Responsible for using all YFAI standards and systems (BOS, PLUS, Lean, CPP, CMP, EPIC, BEP)   

Specific Requirements:  

Education 

Bachelor’s Degreeor equivalent   

Work Experience 

Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Jenoptik laser weakening
• vibration welding
• flame treat
• robotic sewing
• press lamination
• ABB, Fanuc, and Kuka robots
• IMGLand IMGS vac forming
• auto edge folding
• sonic welding
• heat stake welding
• robotic spray paint

Common Requirements:  

Business Operating System (BOS): Understand, apply and meet all function-related BOS requirements. 

Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS): Understand, apply and meet all function-related EHS requirements. 

Product Safety: Understand, apply and meet all function-related Product Safety requirements. 

Compliance: Understand, apply and meet allfunction-related Compliance requirements 

Information Security: Understand, apply and meet all function-related IT / Information Security and confidentiality of YFAI information requirements. 

Our Investment in You

•    Competitive Compensation Packages 
•    Generous Paid Vacation, PaidSick Leave and Paid Holidays 
•    Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits from day one
•    Competitive 401k Match
•    Rewarding Healthy Behavior Program
•    Life and Disability Insurance
•    Supplemental Health Plans
•    Employee AssistanceProgram
•    Company Discount Program