Application Engineer

Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal‑management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative‑energy powertrains. Serving three primary markets – passenger vehicle, commercial truck, and off‑highway equipment – Dana provides the world's original‑equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.

Position Summary

Main Responsibilities

- Leads all engineering activities at the assembly plant (excluding Manufacturing Engineering), ensuring effective coordination between project engineering and the assembly floor during industrialization.

- Represents Engineering in internal and customer meetings for products in production, communicating milestones, issues, change requests, and risks to ensure alignment.

- Prepares Engineering Design and Testing cost estimates, tracks project spend, and secures cost recovery for production phase design changes in collaboration with Sales and stakeholders.

- Supports Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VAVE) initiatives for industrialized products as the Engineering representative.

- Leads engineering development from technical evaluation through production for aftermarket opportunities and new applications based on industrialized products.

- Ensures clear and timely communication with internal and external stakeholders, escalating engineering risks and issues impacting the assembly plant or production.

- Acts as Engineering liaison with Plant and Customer Quality teams, supporting issue resolution during industrialization and early production (assembly issues, scrap, deviations, and customer claims).

- Leads engineering change management activities on the assembly line, ensuring timely and controlled implementation of design, process, or technology changes.

- Drives the capture and sharing of lessons learned from production issues to prevent recurrence in future projects.

- Defines and reports engineering KPIs related to launch performance, production efficiency, and on time delivery.

Job Position Requirements

Education: University bachelor degree - Electrical, Mechanical or Software Engineering

Professional background

- Experience in the automotive industry in a development environment, preferably at Tier1 or OEM e‑propulsion department

- Minimum of 3‑5 years of experience in powertrain or e‑powertrain systems

- Knowledge of electrified powertrains. This means having the background and ability to think at the electrified powertrain system level.

- Electronic hardware (ECU and power electronics)

- Mechanical hardware (motor, hydraulics, gearbox)

- Controls & software

- Electromagnetic, NVH or thermal analysis

- Relevant experience in requirements management tools e.g., Design, CAE, ASPICE, CMMI, Agile, PDP, Polarion, etc.

- Proven problem solving techniques (e.g. RedX, Ishikawa diagram, 5‑Whys)

- Experience in working with PLM system (e.g., Teamcenter)

- Basic understanding and ability to utilize CAD software (e.g., Creo Parametric)

- Advanced skills in drafting technical reports and presentations with Microsoft Office tools

- Experience in automotive functional safety according to ISO26262 Aspice

- Ability to achieve results and work under pressure, proactive forward thinking in an environment with changing priorities.

- Experience in team and personnel management, an asset

- Demonstrated ability to document your work.

- Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams and in global, matrix‑structured organisations.

- Innovative with a positive, can‑do mindset and attitude.

- Confident communicator who can build rapport quickly and influence at all levels.

- Sound analytical and organizational skills with ability to prioritize effectively.

- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.

- Effective listener and communicator.

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