ABOUT US
PHINIA: Advancing sustainability today, powering a cleaner tomorrow.
PHINIA is an independent, market-leading, premium solutions and components provider with over 100 years of manufacturing expertise and industry relationships, with a strong brand portfolio that includes DELPHI®, DELCO REMY® and HARTRIDGE™. With over 12,500 employees across 43 locations in 20 countries, PHINIA is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA.
At PHINIA, we Provide fuel systems, electrical systems, and aftermarket products and solutions of the highest quality — developed and manufactured responsibly — that are designed to enhance efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of vehicles, industrial machinery, and other applications. In doing so, we contribute to a cleaner tomorrow, treat our people and surrounding communities with respect, and hold ourselves accountable to robust ethical standards.
Our Culture
PHINIA promotes and cultivates an inclusive culture and diverse perspectives, strives to maintain its reputation for excellence, thrives on the power of collaboration, and fosters the development of our talented employees. We believe in making a positive impact through our business and actions, and we take our collective responsibility seriously.
Career Opportunities
We believe in building a brighter tomorrow for our employees as well as our customers and encourage you to learn about our long history, strong culture, new technologies, and future vision. We offer a strong local presence and interesting global opportunities. Join us on this shared journey toward a brighter tomorrow.
JOB PURPOSE
PHINIA is seeking a dynamic Product Engineer to support Alternator Electronics! The Alternator Electronics Product Engineer will be responsible for understanding the alternator regulator and rectifier bridge needs for future high efficiency passenger car and commercial vehicle designs as well as maintaining and updating existing regulator and rectifier bridge products as required.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Key Responsibilities
Team Focus : Direct and lead the team with activities needed for developing solutions for our customers, whether it is developing new alternator regulator families or updating existing regulator families to meet customer specific needs. This person will also technically direct all diode changes and sourcing.
Customer Focus : The Alternator Electronics Product Engineer will take input from the Senior Alternator PE to understand what new requirements or changes are needed. This person will support the Senior Alternator PE with competitive assessment activities making sure PHINIA provides the best products with competitive designs.
Technical Focus : The Alternator Electronics Product Engineer has knowledge of solid state and power electronics along with basic mechanical properties providing innovative new alternator electronics needs. The Alternator Electronics Product Engineer must be able to work with all levels within engineering and PHINIA plants to convey their knowledge across a wide range of skill sets in a clear and understanding manner. Participation and support of relevant industry group activities is expected to allow them to keep PHINIA alternator products in the top echelon and desired by customers.
Job Duties:
- Develop and maintain all alternator electronics components with the electronics suppliers.
- Understand the available regulator ASICs in the market today. Able to work with regulator electronic supplier to design these regulator ASICs into production regulators.
- Work with diode suppliers to select the appropriate diodes for various alternator power requirements.
- Knowledge of software applications such as Team Center PLM, Intrepid vehicle spy, and MATLAB.
- Able to take product requirements and create new product configurations and/or identify existing products to meet these requirements.
- Work with plant product engineering, manufacturing engineering, SDE, component purchasing, and quality organizations to evaluate supplier input back to PHINIA during new component sourcing activities.
- Lead the change management process for alternators electronics components.
- Participate in and lead cross-functional project teams.
- Provide the appropriate alternator electronic specifications for new opportunities.
- Work with the quality organization to proactively ensure product quality and reliability.
- Work with supplier development engineers to resolve supplier issues and non-conformances.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the plant alternator product engineers for any changes required to current production alternator electronics components.
- Work with suppliers on cost savings initiatives.
- Participate in competitive assessment activities for alternators.
- Able to work with a global team supporting alternator products.
- Works with other engineers to resolve issues.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with emphasis on electronics (BSEE). Recent graduates are encouraged to apply.
- Knowledge of automotive systems and rotating electrical machines is preferred.
- Strong understanding of electronics theory; related to power electronics, switching devices, and semiconductors.
- High Level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, internally and externally to the company.
- Strong analytical, statistical and problem-solving skills; ability to solve complex problems that require considerable judgment.
- Extensive knowledge of metrics, competitive benchmarks, and standards.
- Computer Literate: Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time to customer and plant sites (regionally and globally)
WHAT WE OFFER
We provide compensation and benefits programs intended to attract, motivate, reward, and retain an incredibly talented, globally diverse workforce at all levels within our organization. Our compensation programs are informed by market data and business needs, and we are committed to providing equitable and competitive compensation. We are committed to providing our team with quality and competitive benefit programs, including health and well-being resources, family-centric policies, and an agile workplace program, where not precluded by collective bargaining agreements or national statutory plans. Plans are benchmarked for competitiveness and value.
We provide formal development opportunities at all levels and stages of employee careers. These opportunities are delivered in a variety of formats to make our portfolio of solutions agile, sustainable, and scalable to support our employees in developing the skills needed to succeed.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
SAFETY
You will consistently hear us say Safety First! We are committed to continually improving our strong safety performance supporting the health and wellness of our employees!
We also believe employee health and safety is everyone’s responsibility. We encourage safety learning and collaboration to help employees understand and follow applicable safety policies, standards, and procedures and identify opportunities to minimize or eliminate risk. Work is expected to be conducted in a manner that stresses the importance of preventing incidents and illnesses, including attending all required safety meetings and trainings. It is expected that all incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions are immediately reported to the direct manager, Human Resources, or Safety Representative.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
PHINIA is an equal employment opportunity employer such that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
VISA SPONSORSHIP
PHINIA does provide sponsorship for employment visa status based on business need. However, for this role, applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis, in the country where the position is currently based.
NO UNAUTHORIZED REFERRALS FROM RECRUITERS & VENDORS
Please note that PHINIA does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or offers from third party recruiters or staffing agencies associated with any published or unpublished employment opportunities. Any unsolicited information sent to PHINIA will be considered as unencumbered and free from any fee or charge whatsoever. Only members of our Human Resources Team have the authority to engage or authorize recruiting services, which must be agreed upon before the unsolicited resume or offer is received.
GLOBAL TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY STATEMENT
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Advancing sustainability today, powering a cleaner tomorrow. Join us on this shared journey to a brighter tomorrow. For more information about PHINIA, please visit www.phinia.com .
