Engine Assistant Chief Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company that provides solutions for engineering, technology, and product development projects. For decades, we’ve been helping our clients develop products that are changing the world, whether that’s by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set a new standard of care, or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. Our team of more than 600 people works across industries including aerospace, medical devices and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicle, electric vehicles, rail, and more. Our offices across the US have different industry focuses and engage with our clients in different ways, ranging from working on-site at client facilities to performing product development at our delivery centers.
 
ALTEN Group, our parent company, has been a leader in engineering and information technology for more than 30 years. ALTEN Group operates in 30 countries across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and employs more than 36,000 people, 88% of whom are engineers. The company covers the whole development cycle and offers a choice of service levels, from technology consulting to complete project outsourcing.
 
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you join a group of people passionate about collaborating to solve some of the world’s most technical engineering challenges. Our success is tied to taking care of our employees by building relationships and providing opportunities for mentorship and career growth. We offer comprehensive benefits for all full-time employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan with employer matching; paid time off (PTO); paid parental leave; and mentorship to help you take your career to the next level. You don’t have to take our word for it that we are a great place to work—we were named on the 2023 Top Workplaces list thanks to feedback from our proud employees.

The main scope of this service is to provide onsite engineering support to manage technical aspects of an engine program.

• Support onsite dynamometer triage, test cell setup, and dyno support to quickly and effectively troubleshoot and root cause test cell and engine issues.
• Support onsite part failure resolution, root cause analysis, and task force leadership for issues observed in dyno cells, teardowns, builds, etc.
• Lead onsite part/engine teardown reviews at QEC (Quality Engineering Center) to evaluate, document, and in some cases test/measure field returned parts. Field returned parts documentations required to be forwarded to global platform team.
• Provide guidance and direction to QEC leads for part/engine disposition to enable next steps in part/engine root cause analysis.
• Support onsite (CPG/PQRC/Test facility) vehicle triage for Program Fleet, or Fast Feedback (FFB) vehicles that have claimed issues to quickly and effectively troubleshoot and root cause issues.
• Provide guidance and direction to propulsion system team members including transmission, driveline, calibration, and other teams with onsite real-time feedback.
• Track validation status for engine phases and escalate any concerns with timing
• Interact with software, controls, and calibration teams to ensure deliverables are on time and escalate any issues
• Call, manage, and lead task force meetings to resolve open issues related to hardware with interactions between calibration and controls.
• Prepare high quality presentations to report out on design or hardware issues, functional indicators, and other technical program topics.
• Working closely with client PS engineering teams and design team.
• Gathering and seeking clarification of all information required to perform requested design study and engineering change notice work.
• Will need to use all Clientbased systems discussed in section 2.2 of this document. (NX1919, TeamCenter, B-Standard, Rocket, WEBCN)
• Being fully responsible for the quality and schedule of all deliverables to client for assigned projects.
• Being fully responsible for communicating if design issues are found as well as providing any additional supporting information to client
• Documenting client acceptance of satisfactory completion of all requested design services.
• Providing updates and reports to client on progress of assigned work.
• Closing the loop with client management on all issues.
• Exploring new ways of value addition to client.

Qualifications;

Technical Skills

• Supplier must have demonstrated a wide range of technical expertise
• Supplier must be able to lead resolution of technical Issues as they arise
• Supplier must be able to provide value evaluations for different solu