Fastening Specialist

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Fastening Specialist to join our team at Brose North America Inc. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for planning, designing, and improving threaded fasteners, joints, and plant programmable logic controller (PLC)-based threaded fastening screwdrivers and equipment.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, design, and improve threaded fasteners, joints, and plant PLC-based threaded fastening screwdrivers and equipment to join mechatronic components using threaded fasteners (screws, nuts, and bolts made of high-strength steel, aluminum, and plastic, cold forged according to drawing, ready-to-install, galvanized, and coated).
• Ensure high-volume production of passenger vehicle seat structures, including seat adjuster systems, motors, window regulators, and door modules.
• Develop, set up, calibrate, and program threaded fastening controllers to Siemens PLCs for operation, sequencing, and control of production fastening equipment, including Apex and Desoutter transducerized nutsetters.
• Ensure the robustness of plant fastening processes to produce tight unions of safety-critical mechatronic threaded joints and ensure that joints are within acceptable quality and regulatory parameters.
• Travel to suppliers' plants in the U.S. to evaluate technical capabilities, perform threaded fastening technologies problem-solving, extract lessons learned for future technologies, and update threaded fastening software and equipment parameters to Brose standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechatronics, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering, or related field.
• 24 months of experience as a Fastening Engineer, Specialist, or Coordinator, or related, with expertise in engineering or improving threaded fasteners and plant PLC-based threaded fastening screwdrivers and equipment, ensuring high-volume production of passenger vehicle seat structures, seat adjusters, or door modules, or related.