APPLICATION ENGINEER - ENERGY

Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal‑management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative‑energy powertrains. Serving three primary markets – passenger vehicle, commercial truck, and off‑highway equipment – Dana provides the world's original‑equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.
Leads all engineering activities at the assembly plant (excluding Manufacturing Engineering), ensuring effective coordination between project engineering and the assembly floor during industrialization.
Represents Engineering in internal and customer meetings for products in production, communicating milestones, issues, change requests, and risks to ensure alignment.
Prepares Engineering Design and Testing cost estimates, tracks project spend, and secures cost recovery for production phase design changes in collaboration with Sales and stakeholders.
Supports Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VAVE) initiatives for industrialized products as the Engineering representative.
Leads engineering development from technical evaluation through production for aftermarket opportunities and new applications based on industrialized products.
Ensures clear and timely communication with internal and external stakeholders, escalating engineering risks and issues impacting the assembly plant or production.
Acts as Engineering liaison with Plant and Customer Quality teams, supporting issue resolution during industrialization and early production (assembly issues, scrap, deviations, and customer claims).
Leads engineering change management activities on the assembly line, ensuring timely and controlled implementation of design, process, or technology changes.
Drives the capture and sharing of lessons learned from production issues to prevent recurrence in future projects.
Defines and reports engineering KPIs related to launch performance, production efficiency, and on time delivery.
University bachelor degree - Electrical, Mechanical or Software Engineering
Experience in the automotive industry in a development environment, preferably at Tier1 or OEM e‑propulsion department
Electronic hardware (ECU and power electronics)
Controls & software
Electromagnetic, NVH or thermal analysis
Design, CAE, ASPICE, CMMI, Agile, PDP, Polarion, etc.
Experience in working with PLM system (e.g., Basic understanding and ability to utilize CAD software (e.g., Advanced skills in drafting technical reports and presentations with Microsoft Office tools
Experience in automotive functional safety according to ISO26262 Aspice
Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.