Engineering Manager Controls Engineering
American Axle
Detroit, MI
Full-time
Engineering
Posted on May 3, 2022
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. has openings for Engineering Manager – Controls Engineering at its facility in Detroit, Michigan. Job duties include:
- Manage department engineers, communicate job expectations; plan, monitor, and appraise job contributions; recommend hiring and compensation actions; adhere to policies and procedures.
- Set priorities and scope of work for the design of equipment and systems, approve electrical and mechanical layouts for controls required to manufacture components and assembly of front/rear axles including PTU’s and RDM’s and electrically driven vehicles.
- Recommend electrical controls system architecture, products, components and applications used in automotive manufacturing. Guide the interface selection/development to upper-level system architectures.
- Ensure electrical design specifications are understood and followed by suppliers.
- Create and test traceability design specifications and maintain traceability programs in automotive manufacturing.
- Troubleshoot production equipment and suggest/implement permanent resolutions in automotive manufacturing.
- Provide engineering advice to production personnel and skilled trades on layout and wiring techniques.
- Meet controls engineering financial objectives by estimating requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
- Manage outside contractors, vendors and OEMs for new equipment purchases and approvals along with guiding their technology development.
Position requires: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, or foreign equivalent education, and 8 years’ experience working in the automotive controls industry. 8 years’ experience is required in each of the following:
- Engineering design and development of mechanical and electrical layouts for controls
- Testing new traceability technology used in automotive manufacturing
- Creating electrical controls design specifications for automotive manufacturing
- Troubleshoot production equipment and implement solutions for the automotive manufacturing.
Experience may be obtained concurrently.
Applicants should apply online at careers.aam.com and reference Job ID# JREQ-195511.