Project Journey Resident Engineer

Location: India

Description

As the Resident Engineer – Automatic Transmission Launch & Localization, you will represent Product Development onsite at a new manufacturing facility producing automatic transmissions.

You will provide technical leadership throughout equipment commissioning, pre-production builds, production validation, launch, ramp-up, and ongoing production. You will also lead regional Product Development activities associated with localization of components and assemblies.

The position combines two closely related areas of accountability:

1. Resident engineering leadership for the transmission manufacturing operation.
2. Regional Product Development leadership for component localization and implementation.

You will work closely with regional and global transmission engineering teams to ensure localized products, manufacturing changes, supplier proposals, validation activities, and production approvals meet applicable engineering, functional, durability, quality, and manufacturing requirements.

The role reports to the Product Development General Manager for Underbody Systems in Chennai, with a matrix reporting relationship to the Global Rear-Wheel-Drive Transmission Manager.

 

Lead onsite Product Development engineering for the launch and localization of a new automatic transmission manufacturing operation. This role is the primary technical interface between the transmission plant, regional and global Product Development teams, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Purchasing, suppliers, and vehicle operations. The Resident Engineer will drive rapid technical issue resolution, production readiness, engineering change implementation, component localization, validation, and production sign-off while ensuring that global product requirements and design intent are maintained.