Reliability Validation Engineer

To lead the technical definition of the validation plan for the vehicle requirements related with strength & durability, Squeak and rattle and Tightness; following the program’s DVP and VTS guidance.
To allocate the testing activities for the mentioned attributes, deciding if the activity can be performed in House or needs to be outsourced.
In case that the activity needs to outsourced:
To lead the contact with the external testing suppliers, aiming for an agreement about cost and time that matches the program requirements.
To track and support the testing performance, coordinating with the Program Quality managers and any other stakeholder to provide the support required to keep the testing activity in expected time and form
In case that the activity can be performed in House:
To make sure that the in House resources (equipment, facilities, manpower) will be available for the planned testing date.
To coordinate his team of Testing Lead Engineers and any other required support to ensure the execution, as per agreed testing standards, in the expected time frame.
For any of the 2 cases (in-House or outsourced testing):
To analyze the test reports and give assessment
To identify any issue out of the testing and trigger the Problem Solving process through JIRA
To track the status of all JIRA issues
To provide a technical risk assessment, in case that the issue cannot be solved and a deviation needs to be raised.

Mechanical, Electrical or Mechatronics Engineer or equivalent work experience (3+ years) with solid knowledge in automotive development and validation.
Solid background in vehicle architecture, with focus on interior, exterior, BIW, chassis and powertrain systems.
Experienced in DVP and overall validation strategies for reliability, tightness and NVH.  Good knowledge of testing standards for these domains.
Good skills for subjective assessment of the vehicle, with focus on NVH (wind noise, road noise, PWT noise, operational noise) and squeak and rattle identification.
Knowledge about vehicle teardown and failure analysis after durability/corrosion/environmental tests.
Experience working with external global testing suppliers
Leadership skills, capacity to motivate and lead and efficiently organize activities of own team of engineers.
Excellent communication skills, capability of synthesis and identification of important topics and their relevance.
Capable to deal with challenging time plans.