Controls & Test Engineer

Since 1965, Stoneridge has designed and manufactured advanced, award-winning technologies including driveline and transmission actuation systems, vision systems, emissions control systems, safety systems, and security and monitoring systems for vehicle OEMs in the commercial vehicle, automotive, off-highway and agricultural vehicle markets. We’re focused on the areas of greatest market need – both today and tomorrow. Our core products and technologies are aligned with industry megatrends including safety and security, vehicle intelligence, fuel efficiency and emissions. Join the Stoneridge Team as we continue to build upon our strong history and reputation for quality products to deliver innovative products and systems that address a need, exceed our customers’ expectations, and motivate our team.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Controls Engineer position is responsible for the development and delivery, in coordination with manufacturing engineers, of the required manufacturing equipment and systems for manual to highly automated assembly and test equipment. The predominant product lines that the Engineer will be responsible for are Control Devices (actuators/connectors/sensors/switches) and/or Electronics (Clusters/Control Modules). Actuator product line requires the Controls Engineer to work heavily with with PCBA (Melexis hall, allegro, etc.) calibration & programming. They will also be working with different versions of Automotive embedded system communication (CAN/LIN/Etc.)

This engineer will interact with M&E vendors to define electrical and controls requirements, Traceability requirements, and Testing sequences and requirements for new manufacturing equipment and systems. They will also interact with the receiving manufacturing plant during installation and project start-up. The engineer should be able to work both independently as well as in a team based environment.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand Process Flow Diagram, PFMEA and Control Plan and necessary controls for all new products
  • Including traceability and permission requirements
• Understand regional electrical safety requirements and integration into equipment
• Develops M&E specifications to include electrical/programming/hardware requirements
• Coordinate with manufacturing engineer the vendor machine qualification, transfer to plant, and installation at plant
• Complete delivery of all required electrical system and documentation
• Programming software/test equipment algorithms
• Electrical safe work practice documents (Lockout, Laser safety requirements)
• Verification of all controls requirements at vendor and on manufacturing plant
  • Test programs
  • Master/reject test programs
• Define and Integrate traceability and permissions requirements and verify at plant prior to PPAP
• Support Pilot Run Events (or equivalent) for customers at plant.
• Support development of product test equipment for proto-type builds of new product.
• Cell readiness M&E hand off to process engineering when performance has reached agreed levels.
• Support new program pursuits with timely quote responses, cost effective capacity solutions, maintain capacity utilizations for SCD and SRE products.
• Implement lessons learned process to feedback quality/OE/scrap/technology lessons learned/improvements back into fundamental PFD/PFMEA of BOP to ensure best launches moving forward.
• Travel Requirments:
  • Up to 25-75% of overall work schedule can require travel to support launch programs – vendor visits, plant visits, technical reviews.
    • Normal work schedule requires travel about 25-33% of the time
    • Time period during machine qualification, installation, and start up may require travel 50-75% of the time
• Office Work Requirments: (When not traveling for work)
  • Require working from Office or lab ~33% of the time
  • Flexibility in working from home office ~33% of the time

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree in Technical field, Electrical or Mechatronics Engineering is preferred or other equivalent field of Engineering in experience.

EXPERIENCE:

3-5 years of experience

KNOWLEDGE:

• Advance English spoken and writing
• Demonstrated understanding of mechanical/electrical concepts
• Project Management experience
• Experience in qualification / validation of lean assembly cells, machinery and equipment, gages and error proofing using Cpk studies, DOEs and MSA studies as R&R, Linearity and Bias studies to validate new variable gages, go- no-go gages and error proofing devices

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES

• Hands on technical experience and problem solving capability
• Good communication skills / team experience
• Experience working with multiple projects

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Automotive embedded system (CAN/LIN/Etc.) communication experience is a benefit
• Previous work with PCBA (Melexis/Allegro/Etc.) programming and calibration is a benefit.
• Understanding of PLC controls, Labview, Visual Basic techniques
• Problem solving tools
• Proficient in Solid Works, Minitab MS Office