Magna
Senior Engineer - Fasteners
Troy, Michigan, US · Senior
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About the role
- Select and specify threaded fasteners, rivets, inserts, clips, retainers, adhesives, welded joints, and other joining technologies appropriate to vehicle structures and assemblies.
- Project Planning, Targets & Technical Governance
- Confirm that product performance, regulatory, manufacturing, cost, and timing targets are understood, achievable, and reflected in engineering plans.
Responsibilities
- Lead development of fasteners, structural connections, and joining applications against performance, cost, weight, quality, and timing targets.
- Develop and review design proposals using set-based engineering, Design for Manufacturing, tolerance stack-up, GD&T, and structured design-quality principles.
- Create, review, and release CAD models, engineering drawings, specifications, CAE studies, and configuration-controlled product data through approved PLM processes.
- Perform or coordinate joint strength, clamp load, torque-tension, material compatibility, durability, corrosion, and reliability assessments.
- Drive fastener commonality, catalog maintenance, standards, and best practices across applicable vehicle and subsystem programs.
- Evaluate alternate components during supply constraints, confirm technical equivalency and compatibility, and support approval, release, and documentation.
- Support resource planning, budget development, schedule tracking, technical status reporting, and third-party work-package coordination.
- Ensure DFMEA and DVP&R activities address product risks, use cases, verification methods, and project targets; support technical reviews and engineering sign-off.
- Lead benchmarking, knowledge capture, continuous improvement, and complex problem solving with cross-functional teams.
- Collaborate with advanced manufacturing engineering, contract manufacturers, suppliers, and plant teams to confirm production feasibility, assembly sequence, takt-time capability, first-time quality, ergonomics, and launch readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Nice to have
- Experience launching a complete vehicle, major subsystem, or fastening and joining system through serial production.
- Experience supporting autonomous vehicle, advanced mobility, aerospace, electronics, or other high-reliability product programs.
- Experience guiding technical personnel and coordinating global engineering teams.
Skills
- Job descriptions may display in multiple languages based on your language selection.
Company info
- 10+ years of automotive, transportation, aerospace, electronics, or industrial product-development experience, including substantial responsibility for fasteners, mechanical joints, structural connections, and joining systems.
- Experience with complete vehicle development, design release, validation, prototype and production builds, manufacturing launch, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.
- Demonstrated knowledge of fastening and joining applications across ferrous and non-ferrous stampings, extrusions, castings, composites, adhesives, corrosion-protection systems, and applicable welded structures.
- Strong knowledge of bolted-joint theory, torque-tension relationships, mechanical joint design, joint durability, material compatibility, tolerance stack-up, DFM, and GD&T fundamentals.
- Proficiency with CAD and PLM tools; CATIA and ENOVIA experience preferred. Working knowledge of CAE methods and Microsoft Office applications.
- Knowledge of applicable fastener standards and vehicle regulations, with the ability to translate requirements into engineering specifications and verification plans.
- Exposure to supplier quality, PPAP, Six Sigma, and design-quality methodologies.
- Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:
- At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success.
- That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity
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