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Welding Engineer
As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.
Your Tasks
- Develop, optimize, and troubleshoot welding processes and parameters including Laser Welding, GMAW, Projection Welding.
- Conduct root cause analysis to resolve process and equipment issues (e.g. to meet capability studies), enhancing production efficiency and product quality.
- Support equipment/fixtures design reviews, build activities, runoffs, FAT/SAT, installation, commissioning, and production launch.
- Provide support in design reviews with the design team, leveraging GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing) knowledge to ensure proper fit, function, and manufacturability of designs.
- Participate in supplier technical reviews and evaluate proposed equipment concepts, processes, cycle times, and technical solutions.
- Troubleshoot welding-quality issues such as weld penetration, porosity, spatter, burn-through, lack of fusion, weld location, distortion, and other process-related defects.
- Contribute to process and product design improvements in production rate, quality and cost reduction.
- Strong understanding of welding fundamentals, including heat input, joint design, weld parameters, distortion, metallurgy, and common weld defects.
- Track project timing, technical risks, open issues, and corrective actions throughout equipment development and launch.
- Prepare clear technical reports, project updates, and management presentations summarizing project status, risks, issues, countermeasures, and recommendations.
Your Profile
- Bachelor degree in Welding, Robotics/Automation, Mechanical, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 8+ years of experience in welding engineering within the automotive industry, desirable in welded seat structures.
- Strong technical expertise in Laser Welding, GMAW, and Projection Welding processes and applications.
- Proven experience with robotic welding systems, including programming, troubleshooting, and optimization of ABB robots - mandatory to be considered
- Advanced knowledge of GD&T, Capability studies, FMEA and DOE.
- Decision Making, Time Management and Problem-Solving skills
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills