• Support customer quote efforts by providing cost estimates for testing. 

• Preparation of reliability analyses for customer (reliability calculations). 

• Coordination of design verification, product validation and certification testing, and communication of results internally and externally to customers. 

• Work with product engineering to ensure parts assigned for validation are of the proper build level and expected quality.    

• Track first time through (FTT) metric for each test plan. 

• Collaborating with engineering, quality and warranty groups on common failure modes to ensure any additional Varroc screening or robustness test are added to the internal DVP. 

• Support review and sign-off on pre-production part builds to verify parts to be sent to customers will meet engineering quality expectations. 

• Lead the test fixture development process:  test fixture specification, sourcing, build and approval, in collaboration with PD and Quality engineers. 

• Lead collection of necessary test boxes, etalon light sources, interface boxes, wire harnesses and other hardware necessary to perform the testing. 

• Prepare specifications (from existing test plans) to support outsourced testing, as required. 

• Maintain  database of customer and industry validation specifications. 

• Support test plan development for engineering changes and cost reduction investigations. 

• Support Continuous Improvement process to keep updated documents related to product validation, such as: Test Readiness Checklist, Design guidelines, Standard Templates development, DVPR baselines, etc. 

Requirements:

• BS in engineering or equivalent required; mechanical, electrical, optics or chemical/materials engineering preferred 
• 5 years minimum related experience preferred  
• Experience reviewing OEM customer specifications and preparing design validation plans (DVP) is required. 
• Experience in molded plastic product design and engineering required.  Experience in lighting products is preferred.  Knowledge of LED applications and/or electronics integration is a plus. 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills required.  Experience interfacing with automotive OEMs is desired.  Ability to work with multiple teams is critical.