Transmissions Design & Development Specialist- employment career USA

Job title:Transmissions Design & Development Specialist USA
Location:   Michigan, USA
Organization:Beechwood Recruitment Ltd
Salary:   £40,000 - £60,000 per annum
Job type: Permanent, full-time
Deadline:7/Aug/2013
Reference: 23359815
Duration: n/a
TECHNICAL SPECIALIST - TRANSMISSION DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
AUTOMOTIVE POWER TRAIN DEVELOPMENT
MICHIGAN, USA

This is an outstanding career opportunity for an experienced Technical Specialist in Transmission Design & Development to join this leading power train design and development consultancy in North America and to take on a Senior Project Engineering role, leading and authoring large proposals spanning multiple skill teams (>$250k), providing expertise to engineering activities, and taking responsibility for establishing, communicating, and assuring compliance with best practices.

As Technical Specialist - Transmission Design & Development your specific duties will include:
 Development of relationships with experts in Transmissions Field; Checking design calculations for accuracy and improvement; Reviewing and interpreting CAE results and driving design changes; Identifying and managing appropriate prototype part suppliers; Collaborating with leadership team to suggest improvements to transmission designs; Leading development and testing projects; and Identifying testing methodologies and implement.

Your general responsibilities will be to provide technical expertise to company leadership and the engineering community, to provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers within the skill team, to create and maintain technical education resources and to participate in customer projects with new design/major redesigns as a technical expert and ensure best practice compliance

You will evaluate and develop new techniques / resources needed to execute simulation projects and special assignments and will develop best practice / lessons learned methods and documentation as well as coordinating resource usage on appropriate projects (R&D, customer, internal, etc.) and participating in the quotation/design review process to ensure deliverables are achievable.

Your deliverables will include: Benchmarking of applicable technology; Documentation of technical memory for respective area of expertise; Consulting on testing, data analysis, and tools development; Communicating with Skill Teams for latest technical developments; Supplying appropriate technical expertise and participating in discussions; Maintaining and facilitating workshops in area of expertise; and Initiating efforts to evaluate new business opportunities.

To succeed as Project Engineer - Engine & Vehicle Calibration, you will be qualified to Masters degree level or equivalent in Engineering or related field and must have extensive experience in Powertrain Engineering. Proven Mentoring skills are also essential.

As part of the world's largest privately owned and independent company for the development of powertrain systems, the North America based division was established in 1994 to allow the company to serve its North American clients directly.

**Senior Managers will be interviewing in Europe on 9th & 10th September**
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You will coordinate activities (input data collection, organization of results, etc.) for assigned projects and execute engineering work according to project plan and within specified deadlines. You will manage the review of presentations and data for compliance with engineering principles and customer requirements and support.

You will increase your thermodynamics knowledge continuously and share relevant topics with the team. You will model setup, execution, validation and interpretation of results and findings, be familiar with any commercial 1D thermodynamics codes (such as GTPOWER) and support test cell or vehicle applications work, on-site if necessary.

Lastly, you will initiate efforts to evaluate new business opportunities (suggestion program/ R&D).

The successful candidate will have the following:
• Bachelors degree in Engineering or equivalent (Masters degree or equivalent preferred)
• Solid experience in Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, or Powertrain Simulation (Diesel Engine experience preferred)
• Experience with modeling and naturally aspirated and turbocharged engines, and familiarity with variable valve timing optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment with customers and other staff members
• Demonstrated ability to exceed customer expectations
• Excellent communication skills and analytical thinking capability

As part of the world's largest privately owned and independent company for the development of powertrain systems, the North America based division was established in 1994 to allow the company to serve its North American clients directly. They are unique in having the experience, people, technology and facilities to undertake any project from initial feasibility studies to complete turnkey engine programs. Their customers include local and global Automotive and Engine OEM’s, local and international component/system suppliers in the conventional and hybrid power train field.

**Senior Managers will be interviewing in Europe on 9th & 10th September**
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