Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!
Responsibilities:
Leadership and Guidance: You’ll guide the product development engineering functions ensuring alignment with FBPS strategies. This involves staying informed about industry trends and implementing emerging technologies.
Regulatory Compliance: You’ll apply relevant standards and regulations to FBPS battery products and peripherals. This ensures compliance and safety.
Collaboration: Collaborate with department leaders to achieve project goals and execute FBPS product strategies.
Quality and Timeliness: Ensure technical deliverables meet FBPS quality standards and are delivered on time.
Testing and Safety: Support design validation teams by reviewing test plans to verify design compliance and safety.
Customer Focus: Work closely with marketing to understand customer technical requirements and create multi-generation technical plans for different applications.
Innovation and Assessment: Assess competitive technologies for system-level innovation, cost-effectiveness, performance, and functional advantages.
Risk Management: Proactively support design and integration Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
Service Improvement: Assist service engineering by providing recommendations to enhance service strategies and product technical publications.
Qualifications:
- M.S. in Mechanical, Electrical or Controls Engineering or equivalent (BS acceptable with sufficient experience)
- Minimum 10 years of experience in li ion battery development for electric vehicle or related programs.
- Understanding of cross functional battery development topics including thermal, mechanical, electrical, BMS, cell characteristics, cell electrical interconnects, abuse response, and functional safety.
- Excellent communications and interpersonal skills – position requires strong interaction in multi-functional team environment particularly in high-pressure situations (e.g., launch)
- Well versed in development processes such as APQP and/ gate driven product development.
- Working knowledge of DFM, DFA, and VAVE principles.
- demonstrate knowledge of and proficiency with creative problem-solving methods.
- Travel 10–20% of time
The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Freudenberg Battery Power Systems LLC
