Req ID 89997 | Northville, United States ZF North America, Inc.
Job DescriptionAbout the team: The team is looking for a new member to join them in Northville, in a hybrid role. This person could be hired as an Engineer II or Senior Engineer, based on skillset and experience.
What you can look forward to as a Ride Development Engineer:- Responsible for coordinating ride work activities with customer, submitting ride work requests through Engineering Resource Manager, and coordinating all needed tools and components needed for tuning.
- Develop strong working relationships with customers conveying both professionalism and strong product knowledge.
- Determines required adjustments to hydraulic valve codes to achieve ride and handling targets established by the customer.
- Directs the efforts of support technicians when conducting ride work at customer locations and supports less-experienced ride engineers as needed.
- Assists the support technician in making the component changes required to achieve desired results.
- Maintains accurate change logs and evaluation notes during every step of the tuning process using the correct terminology. Organize information systematically and separately for each program.
- Completes pre- and post- tuning activities including issuing R01 (Engineering Report) after each ride tuning session, obtaining Customer sign off and effectively communicating customer expectations and tuning outcomes to project team.
- Releases hydraulic settings for production including creating valve BOMs and preparing the necessary documents for final valve codes, forces, and tolerances.
- Responsible for hydraulic function test results as part of the customer DV/PV testing including analyzing results, reviewing test specimens, and preparing test reports based on those results.
Your profile as a Ride Development Engineer:- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or Mechatronics Engineering.
- 4+ years of experience with strong functional/product knowledge, and ability to train others (internship/co-op included).
- Possesses good working knowledge of vehicle dynamics fundamentals for application to damper development.
- Ability to evaluate vehicle ride characteristics and associate them with product specific component changes.
- Understands function of latest ZF adaptive valve technology and is adept at execution of all types of ZF adaptive valve settings.
- Exhibits superior knowledge and execution of damper / ride development processes, both ZF internal processes and customer processes.
- Demonstrates proven skills in damper characterization and testing including damper industrialization and serial production support.
- Good organizational skills and self- motivated.
Why you should choose ZF :- A supportive collaborative team environment
- Annual Incentive Plan
- Paid Vacation
- Personal Time
- 401k Plan
- Health Care Benefits
- Paid Holidays
- A strong diversity culture
- Supportive Employee Groups and community outreach activities
Be part of our ZF team as Ride Development Engineer and apply now!
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