Engineering Group Lead - E Motor
Stellantis
Date: 17 hours ago
City: Kokomo, Indiana
Contract type: Full time
Engineering Group Lead E-Motor
The UPE Engineering Group Lead is responsible for leading Manufacturing Engineering functions for Kokomo Indiana area powertrain/propulsion programs. Their primary role is to guide their Engineering team to develop and launch processes that meet all objectives for safety, quality, delivery, and cost Emotor manufacturing including stator and rotor assembly.
Main responsibilities include:
Basic Qualifications
Experience in high volume electrical motor manufacturing including:
Stator
Comprehensive Health & Well-being Coverage
From your very first day, you’ll have access to medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage — ensuring you and your family stay healthy and protected. Also, our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers confidential support for personal and professional challenges, always ready when you need it.
Family Building Benefit
We proudly support all paths to parenthood- including fertility and infertility treatments, adoption services, and gestational surrogacy.
Generous Paid Time Off
We believe in work-life balance. That’s why we offer: 17+ paid holidays, including shut-down from December 24th through New Years Day every year. Vacation, float & wellbeing days, sick time and fully paid parental leave when your family needs you most.
Competitive Retirement Savings Plans
We Help You Plan For The Future With
Benefit from both employer-provided and voluntary plan offerings, including life insurance, group accident, critical illness, etc. - supporting the needs of you and your family and ensuring peace of mind.
Company Vehicle Lease Program
Eligible employees and their immediate families can participate in the company vehicle lease program, providing access to Stellantis vehicles with insurance, maintenance, and unlimited miles included. Plus, take advantage of exclusive discounts on Stellantis products.
Support for Your Growth and Giving Back
We believe in investing in your future and your passions:
When you join us, you’re not just building a career — you’re joining a company that supports you, inside and outside of work.
At Stellantis, we assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We welcome applications from all people without regard to sex, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any characteristic protected by law. We believe that diverse teams reflect our identity as a global company, enabling us to better address the evolving needs of our customers and care for our future.
EOE / Disability / VeteranAt Stellantis, we assess candidates based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We welcome applications from people of all gender identities, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation and disability. Diverse teams will allow us to better meet the evolving needs of our customers and care for our future.
The UPE Engineering Group Lead is responsible for leading Manufacturing Engineering functions for Kokomo Indiana area powertrain/propulsion programs. Their primary role is to guide their Engineering team to develop and launch processes that meet all objectives for safety, quality, delivery, and cost Emotor manufacturing including stator and rotor assembly.
Main responsibilities include:
- Perform assessments for process changes and related investment requirements for cost studies
- Oversee engineering scope definition, Requests for Quotes (RFQ’s), sourcing, technical evaluations, design, manufacturing, and installation of manufacturing equipment of electric hairpin stators and rotor assembly equipment.
- Manage all New Model (NM) program’s facilities aspects including site preparation and machine installation
- Lead activities on programs ensuring successful implementation and tracking of the Iron Triangle (Scope, Timing, and Cost)
- Lead their team in the implementation of Stellantis Production Way (SPW) methodology, supporting all activities including deployment of advanced SPW tools and guide systematic root cause problem solving methods to attack risks
- Development/improvement of process and equipment standards related to manufacturing engineering specifically for electric hairpin stator and rotor assembly.
- Lead industrialization for process design and installation of electric motor hairpin Stator and Rotor line manufacturing lines in Kokomo Indiana.
- Drive standardization across plants in all regions
- Lead procurement, design, build, install, qualification and launch of facilities and process supporting equipment and infrastructure
- Support Stellantis Production Way initiatives
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or technical equivalent
- Minimum 7 years manufacturing experience
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in with electric hairpin stator and rotor manufacturing.
- Must be able to work and interact with all levels of the organization
- Must have strong oral, written, presentation and organizational skills
- Ability to analyze, interpret and present data to all levels of the company in easily understandable formats
- Ability to implement SPW principles and ability to lead effectively in a bargaining unit environment
- High demonstration of leadership and teamwork characteristics.
- Ability to embrace cross-functional teams responsible for developing, specifying, building, and launching powertrain manufacturing processes.
- Demonstrated abilities to plan and execute large scale projects in time and budget.
- Ability to effectively lead, teach, coach and mentor employees.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to build and develop the best teams.
- Proficient with Microsoft tools
- Flexibility to work all shifts
- Daily, weekend and holiday availability
- Flexibility to work at off-site locations.
- International travel required, US passport or equivalent required.
- Knowledge of advanced problem-solving skills and ability to manage data analysis to identify root causes and attack them to closure.
- Knowledge of cost studies and strategic planning a plus.
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint and Excel intermediate or advance knowledge
- Advanced degree preferred
- Ability to translate technical data and analysis into an executive summary format for presentation
- Powertrain Manufacturing experience a plus
Experience in high volume electrical motor manufacturing including:
Stator
- Paper folding/slot insertion
- Winding experience for stators - Hair-pin forming/bending experience preferred
- Laser welding copper (hair-pins and buss-bars)
- Impregnation/trickling of stator windings
- Electrical testing of finished stator
- Magnet insertion
- Assembly of rotor including segment stacks to rotor shaft
- Transfer molding / epoxy bonding for magnets as well as mechanical magnet retention
- Rotor balancing
- Electrical testing of finished rotor
Comprehensive Health & Well-being Coverage
From your very first day, you’ll have access to medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage — ensuring you and your family stay healthy and protected. Also, our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers confidential support for personal and professional challenges, always ready when you need it.
Family Building Benefit
We proudly support all paths to parenthood- including fertility and infertility treatments, adoption services, and gestational surrogacy.
Generous Paid Time Off
We believe in work-life balance. That’s why we offer: 17+ paid holidays, including shut-down from December 24th through New Years Day every year. Vacation, float & wellbeing days, sick time and fully paid parental leave when your family needs you most.
Competitive Retirement Savings Plans
We Help You Plan For The Future With
- An employer match on contributions to your 401k, Roth, and Catch-Up plans
- An employer contribution, even if you don’t contribute
Benefit from both employer-provided and voluntary plan offerings, including life insurance, group accident, critical illness, etc. - supporting the needs of you and your family and ensuring peace of mind.
Company Vehicle Lease Program
Eligible employees and their immediate families can participate in the company vehicle lease program, providing access to Stellantis vehicles with insurance, maintenance, and unlimited miles included. Plus, take advantage of exclusive discounts on Stellantis products.
Support for Your Growth and Giving Back
We believe in investing in your future and your passions:
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan refinancing programs
- 18 paid volunteer hours each year to make a difference in your community
When you join us, you’re not just building a career — you’re joining a company that supports you, inside and outside of work.
At Stellantis, we assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We welcome applications from all people without regard to sex, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any characteristic protected by law. We believe that diverse teams reflect our identity as a global company, enabling us to better address the evolving needs of our customers and care for our future.
EOE / Disability / VeteranAt Stellantis, we assess candidates based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We welcome applications from people of all gender identities, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation and disability. Diverse teams will allow us to better meet the evolving needs of our customers and care for our future.
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