Transmission & Driveline Warranty Engineer
Auburn Hills, MI
48326, US
Date Posted: March 30, 2025
Job ID: 2008880
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The Transmission & Driveline Warranty Engineer is responsible for leading the resolution of warranty issues associated with the transmission, driveline components, transfer case and more! This includes addressing concerns due to hardware, Software / Calibration, and system interactions with strong focus on problem-solving, root cause analysis, and validation. This role involves a proactive approach to addressing quality concerns, driving improvements, and ensuring that warranty-related issues are resolved efficiently. The Transmission and Driveline Warranty Engineer works closely with dealers, suppliers, and internal teams to confirm issues, propose solutions, and track progress in delivering resolutions.
Key Responsibilities:
· Perform deep dive analysis of product failures to determine root causes, collaborating with cross-functional teams (product development, supplier quality, and manufacturing) to implement corrective actions for issues impacting transmission, driveline (half shafts, axles), and transfer case performance
· Accountable for proposing solutions, validating their effectiveness, and tracking progress to ensure timely resolution
· Manage escalation of issues as needed
· Perform vehicle reviews as needed at dealers, QEC (Quality Engineering Center), and assembly plants to identify and confirm the root cause
· Collaborate with Stellantis and Supplier Plants to establish and validate containment actions
· Ensure that appropriate service actions are defined and implemented to address warranty issues (including Parts Purge, Service Bulletins, Tech Tips, Rapid Service Updates, etc)
· Ensure that lessons learned from current warranty claims are fed forward to prevent similar issues on future vehicle models
· Regularly report on warranty-related quality issues, progress on GIMs, and the status of resolutions at required quality and leadership meetings
Basic Qualifications:
· Bachelor of Science in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering from accredited University
· 5+ years of strong technical background in automotive engineering, quality, and/or manufacturing
· Proven ability to solve problems using advanced root cause analysis tools and techniques
· Strong analytical skills to identify patterns, trends with data analytics tools
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills to interact effectively suppliers, dealers, internal teams and all levels of management
· Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with engineering, manufacturing, and supplier quality
· Strong customer-oriented mindset
· Capable of managing multiple tasks and projects, tracking progress, and ensuring timely delivery of solutions
· Knowledgeable of vehicle communication systems (OBD, CAN , LIN)
· Experience in Powertrain Control solution development (powertrain control algorithms, On-board Diagnostics/ OBD, embedded software)
· Experience taking vehicle logs, flashing vehicles
Preferred Skills:
· Masters in Engineering
· Shainin RedX Black Belt
· Green Belt / Kepner Tregoe
· Design for Six Sigma
· Project Management
FCA is proud to extend to its employees a compensation and benefits package that is designed to retain their talent and to motivate and reward job performance. Our present compensation program provides for competitive, market based salaries, and annual vacation and holiday time off. We make available a comprehensive health care benefits plan which, depending upon the employee’s role, includes medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage. We also offer a disability absence plan, group and optional life insurance program, savings plan, tuition assistance, and vehicle purchase and lease discounts for certain employees, and for their family and friends.
Note: Some of the benefits listed above may not apply to summer vacation replacement and temporary employees.