Senior Test Engineering Specialist

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Job Description

We have an exciting new opportunity with Garrett Advancing Motion for a Senior Engineering Support Specialist to be based in our Plymouth, MI location.  

  • - Manage daily operations with the service provider on our engine activities in North America.
  • - Determine and resolve technical complexities, concepts, principles, practices, and techniques that produce accurate and valuable results.
  • - Provide direct support for Engineering on customer sites, helping on instrumentation and measurement tools, recommending on testing methodologies.

 

Local

  • - Drive lean management towards sustaining an efficient work environment in Plymouth office that's culture is to maintain quality while keeping costs down.
  • - Be HSE agent for change and compliance of corporate, and local regulatory regulations.

Service Provider Supervision 

  • Manage daily operations at AVL Ann Arbor for Garrett testing demands (mainly coming from local application teams).
  • This includes planning, budgeting, and strategizing with Garrett’s worldwide labs and engineering staff.  
  • - Generate direction for AVL technicians that is aligned with Garrett engineering demands and expectations.
  • - Update weekly lab metrics and present during TIER4 weekly meeting with other countries managers and supervisors.
  • - Maintain the culture and goals of no HSE accidents, no customer quality incidents, first class customer satisfaction, continuous improvement on OTTR and operating cycle time.
  • - Seek potential continuous improvement on operating results, opportunities to reduce or optimize service costs with the provider. Use Garrett operating experience and excellence for infusing the good practices in the service provider and vice versa, aiming to generate the same operating efficiency than in internal labs.

 

 Technical Specialist (Global & Local)

  • - Determine and resolve technical complexities, concepts, principles, practices, and techniques that produce accurate and valuable results. This is administered mainly as a consultant but also with hands on technical abilities.
  • - Manage and mentor on Garrett highly technical methodologies (i.e Shaft Motion, Laser light probe testing) at customer facilities in North America and sometimes abroad.
  • - Manage all on vehicle testing that is requested out of the Plymouth garage from start to finish.
  • - Operate and maintain all machining equipment for special request fabrications through the Plymouth machine shop.
  • - Review and influence procedures, concepts, test data, and standard practices to meet the requester’s needs, in co-operation with the worldwide test laboratories engineering group.
  • - Construct and operate testing instrumentation required for proof of concepts.
  • - Develop, diagnose, and enhance the operation and function of systems and equipment that are used for product development. - This includes advanced concepts or technologies that improve the worldwide test laboratories efficiencies and effectiveness. 

 

Operations Excellence (Local)

  • - Drive lean management towards sustaining an efficient work environment that's culture is to maintain quality while keeping costs down. This is achieved by applying an MOS with full engagement of entire Plymouth office staff. 
  • - Reduce waste and inefficiencies by introducing standards, Kaizen, visual management, Management Operating System.
  • - Review Kaizen submissions with site leadership and assign responsible parties.
  • - HSE agent for change and compliance of corporate, and local regulatory regulations. This is achieved through auditing, enforcing, and defining compliance standards.
  • - Prevent unnecessary workplace injuries, thru visual management deployment and proper training.
  • - Protect the business from fines and penalties.
  • - Meet the Garrett standards for workplace safety.
  • - Become more socially responsible by reducing Garrett Plymouths environmental impact.
  • - Develop a culture of disciplines towards Health Safety and the Environment.
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HSE (Local)

  • - Respect and take part of the local HSE Management System in place on the site where the function is located, thru the HSE policy and annual goals defined on site in terms of HSE.
  • - Apply the general recommendations defined on site, in terms of Healthiness, Safety and Environment in the scope of his job or his working area and for any emergency situation.
  • - Contributes to the site continuous improvement initiative by informing about HSE offenders or constrains to apply HSE rules, and also by making proposals aiming to improve HSE in general.

 

EDUCATION & COMPETENCIES

Profile:

  • - Multi skilled person with strong technical background on testing and instrumentation tools, technologies and methodologies and well developed soft skill for supervision.
  • - Good knowledge about RD&E and Test Laboratories activities and engine - turbo interactions.

 

Required Competencies:

  • - Testing and instrumentation education and experience 
  • - Effective communicator, able to report, structure and drive action plans aiming to solve conflicting situations or technical problems.
  • - Leadership impact and “makes people better” oriented.
  • - Relevant knowledge on global RD&E business and activities.
  • - Operating excellence, continuous improvement advocate and mindset.

 

Garrett is an equal opportunity employer.    Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status.