Alternator Electronics Product Engineer

Position

Alternator Electronics Product Engineer – PHINIA Inc.

Location

Anderson, Indiana

About us

PHINIA: Advancing sustainability today, powering carbon-free tomorrow.

At PHINIA, we create premium fuel systems, electrical systems, and aftermarket parts for internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles and industrial applications. We make sure our products are clean, efficient, and high value because we know the actions that we take today will have a profound impact on the world tomorrow. Our goal? The cleanest ICE technology: carbon-free combustion.

Always, PHINIA puts quality first, continuing our legacy with over a century of rich expertise and technological innovation. The name PHINIA has roots related to “bright” and “future,” representing our confidence and commitment to bettering the world.

Our Culture

We believe the health and safety of our employees are a top priority, we care about our local communities and the global environment. PHINIA promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive environment, honors integrity, strives for excellence, commits to responsibility for our communities and the environment, and builds on the power of collaboration.

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

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. This person will also be responsible for the full alternator design as well.

Key Responsibilities

• Experience with automotive or commercial alternator designs.  Experience with EM and FEA analysis tools
• Understand the available regulator ASICs in the market today and 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 efficiency design needs.
• Experience working with Team Center PLM.
• Ability to take product requirements and create new product configurations and/or identify existing products to meet these requirements
• Work with assembly plant manufacturing engineering, component purchasing, SDE, and suppliers resolving component Technical Feasibility Commitments (TFCs)
• Submit and track Change Requests (CRs) as appropriate to update documentation based on supplier feedback
• Review supplier PPAP documentation for compliance to requirements
• Confers with other engineers to resolve issues
• Identifies problems and offers solutions
• Participates in and leads cross-functional Project team
• Supports applications team to identify appropriate solutions for new customer requests
• Provides the engineering design BOM (Bill of Material) for new opportunities
• Works with purchasing with evaluating potential new suppliers for technical capabilities
• Works with quality organization to pro-actively ensure product quality and reliability
• Works with Supplier Development Engineers to resolve supplier issues and non-conformances
• Works with commadity buyer to identify alternatives when material issues or shortages occur
• Works with plant product engineering for cost reduction initiatives
• Able to work with global team supporting starter and alternator products

What we’re looking for

•  Bachelors degree in Engineering required, Masters degree preferred.
•  3+ years of experience with similar products.

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

• Product Leadership - Innovation that brings value to our customers
• Humility - Seeking out diverse perspectives and working collaboratively
• Inclusivity - Recognizing our differences makes us stronger; we are bold and intentional
• Net-Zero - Committed to energy efficiency, waste reduction and beneficial reuse
• Integrity - Taking responsibility for our decisions and doing what is right
• Accountability - Taking ownership of our actions and driving results

Safety

You will consistently hear us say Safety First! We are committed to continually improving our strong safety performance to ensure that our employees go home as safe and as healthy as when they came in, or even better!

We also believe that health and safety is everyone’s responsibility, as such, PHINIA employees will know and comply with all applicable safety policies, standards, and procedures. 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. The hazards of each task shall be assessed, and the risk shall be managed accordingly. 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 in the United States on a full-time basis.

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.

Advancing sustainability today, powering carbon-free tomorrow. Join us on this shared journey to a brighter tomorrow. For more information about PHINIA, please visit www.phinia.com

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