Since 1965, Stoneridge has designed and manufactured advanced, award-winning technologies including driveline and transmission actuation systems, vision systems, emissions control systems, safety systems, and security and monitoring systems for vehicle OEMs in the commercial vehicle, automotive, off-highway and agricultural vehicle markets. We’re focused on the areas of greatest market need – both today and tomorrow. Our core products and technologies are aligned with industry megatrends including safety and security, vehicle intelligence, fuel efficiency and emissions. Join the Stoneridge Team as we continue to build upon our strong history and reputation for quality products to deliver innovative products and systems that address a need, exceed our customers’ expectations, and motivate our team.

Job Summary
The Controls Engineer position is responsible for the development and delivery, in coordination with manufacturing engineers, of the required manufacturing equipment and systems for manual to highly automated assembly and test equipment. The predominant product lines that the Engineer will be responsible for are Control Devices (actuators/connectors/sensors/switches) and/or Electronics (Clusters/Control Modules). Actuator product line requires the Controls Engineer to work heavily with with PCBA (Melexis hall, allegro, etc.) calibration & programming. They will also be working with different versions of Automotive embedded system communication (CAN/LIN/Etc.).

This engineer will interact with M&E; vendors to define electrical and controls requirements, Traceability requirements, and Testing sequences and requirements for new manufacturing equipment and systems. They will also interact with the receiving manufacturing plant during installation and project start-up.



The engineer should be able to work both independently as well as in a team based environment.

Principal Responsibilities

Understand Process Flow Diagram, PFMEA and Control Plan and necessary controls for all new products

Including traceability and permission requirements

Understand regional electrical safety requirements and integration into equipment

Develops M&E; specifications to include electrical/programming/hardware requirements

Coordinate with manufacturing engineer the vendor machine qualification, transfer to plant, and installation at plant

Complete delivery of all required electrical system and documentation

Programming software/test equipment algorithms

Electrical safe work practice documents (Lockout, Laser safety requirements)

Verification of all controls requirements at vendor and on manufacturing plant

Test programs

Master/reject test programs

Define and Integrate traceability and permissions requirements and verify at plant prior to PPAP

Support Pilot Run Events (or equivalent) for customers at plant.

Support development of product test equipment for proto-type builds of new product.

Cell readiness M&E; hand off to process engineering when performance has reached agreed levels.

Support new program pursuits with timely quote responses, cost effective capacity solutions, maintain capacity utilizations for SCD and SRE products.





Implement lessons learned process to feedback quality/OE/scrap/technology lessons learned/improvements back into fundamental PFD/PFMEA of BOP to ensure best launches moving forward.

Travel Requirments:

Up to 25-75% of overall work schedule can require travel to support launch programs – vendor visits, plant visits, technical reviews.

Normal work schedule requires travel about 25-33% of the time

Time period during machine qualification, installation, and start up may require travel 50-75% of the time

Office Work Requirments: (When not traveling for work)

Require working from Office or lab ~33% of the time

Flexibility in working from home office ~33% of the time

Education
Bachelor’s degree in Technical field, Electrical or Mechatronics Engineering is preferred or other equivalent field of Engineering in experience.

Experience
3-5 years of experience

Knowledge

Advance English spoken and writing

Demonstrated understanding of mechanical/electrical concepts

Project Management experience

Experience in qualification / validation of lean assembly cells, machinery and equipment, gages and error proofing using Cpk studies, DOEs and MSA studies as R&R;, Linearity and Bias studies to validate new variable gages, go- no-go gages and error proofing devices

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES

Hands on technical experience and problem solving capability

Good communication skills / team experience

Experience working with multiple projects

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Automotive embedded system (CAN/LIN/Etc.) communication experience is a benefit

Previous work with PCBA (Melexis/Allegro/Etc.) programming and calibration is a benefit.

Understanding of PLC controls, Labview, Visual Basic techniques

Problem solving tools

Proficient in Solid Works, Minitab MS Office

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📌 Controls & Test Engineer (Centro)
🏢 Stoneridge
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