Methods/Measurement Specialist (16025)

Coordinate the availability and accuracy of all measurement and testing equipment for the VAC.  Support the Manager of the Vehicle Analysis Center (VAC) to coordinate interdisciplinary team of experts to perform technical analysis on vehicles built in the Chattanooga Tennessee assembly plant, assuring support for the introduction and validations of countermeasures for the Series and/or Service vehicles. Maximize the resources of the area such as vehicle fleets, equipment and tools in order to assure the correct analysis results in an economic, efficient and prompt manner.  Support the Manager to manage the VAC Team in order to assure the validation and documentation of proposed countermeasures. Coordinate resources needed to operate the VAC and assure the conformity of cars in regards of legal requirement, Technical Requirements Specifications. 

• Vehicle Analysis Center: Plan and maintain the measurement equipment or the Analysis Center. Ensure all required equipment is maintained and available, up to date and calibrated to assure a successful work environment for analysis. Support manager to plan, coordinate and execute new vehicle launch readiness plans. Define, document and optimize processes according to ISO 900x. Support the manager to coordinate the team to design test benches in order to reproduce failures.
• Functional vehicle analysis: Support the manager to establish the strategy, develop and maintain the guidelines to operate an interdisciplinary team of specialists for performing technical analysis on vehicles.
• Front loading: Create mechanisms to assure that the knowledge of technical problems of current models is considered for new models, in order to avoid same concerns in the future. Support factory team with process improvements proposals to avoid reappearance of problems.
• Communication: Support the manager to provide factory Quality Leadership Team with continuous information regarding any complaint in pre-serial phase, field quality situation, and safety related complaints and quality situation of dependent factories thru the Project/Fields Team.
• Release Event Cars: Support the manager to establish a strategy, develop and maintain guidelines to release cars for KAF, MAF, SoFa, WiFa and any kind of drive event. Ensure that cars are up to date and fulfill market conformity, legal requirements and document status of cars. Support the manager to establish and run an escalation process for all vehicles that do not meet legal requirements or have technical, design or production related problems.

Required

• 3+ years of technical experience with an Automotive OEM
•  Bachelor’s degree (Electrical / Mechanical) or 7+ years of experience in Analysis of Vehicle functions

Prefered

• Master’s degree in a related field
• German / Spanish Language