Director - Vehicle Engineering

Director - VEHE is responsible for leading the strategy, development, and execution of a segment within Vehicle Engineering. This role directs a team of engineers and leaders with core engineering standards, technical center requirements, and enterprise business objectives.

Key Responsibilities​

• Develop and sustain strategic relationships with product peers and engineering, research, business, design, and functional domain teams to design and manage vehicle engineering strategy
• Lead all vehicle engineering governance decisions in collaboration with internal stakeholders to optimize key business goals and enhance our control of key, critical body components
• Application of global best practices, common parts, and common DVPR
• Leads product design release to meet technical centers’ requirements
• Facilitate research, design, development, and engineering skill development for the team
• Executes sourcing, industrial phases and series production activities
• Collaborate with key cross-functional stakeholders including Product Design Office, Quality, Manufacturing and Brand
• Lead executive to bridge advanced architecture team solutions from concept to sourcing execution
• Support the organization in the optimization and implementation of related subsystems
• Optimized cost, quality and on-time delivery by improving the efficiency of all development activities and adhering to standard corporate processes.
• Lead overall development activities for special project vehicles

Basic Qualifications​

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical field.​
• Minimum of 15 years of product development experience in engineering.​
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in program execution.​
• Strong understanding of the function and performance characteristics
• Knowledge of key manufacturing processes
• Ability to evaluate system-level functional requirements and conduct trade-off analyses to determine optimal architecture solutions that meet vehicle-level objectives.​
• Strong understanding of engineering development processes required to ensure robust and optimized design development.​

Preferred Qualifications​

• Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Business, Strategic Management, or a related field.​
• Black Belt or Green Belt certification.​
• Experience in manufacturing, quality, supplier operations, or related cross-functional execution roles.​