Jobs at Daimler Truck North America

Designs and develops mechanical powertrain products and components for heavy-duty specialty vehicles. Uses CAE, finite element analysis, multi-body simulation, and fatigue analysis to solve vehicle design problems. Supports prototype design, testing, fabrication, and assembly while collaborating with marketing and industrial design teams to meet technical, manufacturing, and cost requirements.

Lead and coach small business credit analysts; review and implement credit policies; analyze portfolio KPIs and credit deals up to $1M; handle escalated dealer issues; collaborate with sales, remarketing, and regional teams to minimize losses and support strategic growth across North America, including Canadian and Mexican portfolios.

Manages regional compensation programs across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Conducts market benchmarking, salary reviews, job evaluations, incentive planning, executive compensation support, and regulatory compliance. Partners with HR and business leaders on organizational design, job architecture, career pathing, and compensation communications. Uses Workday and advanced Excel for compensation administration, reporting, data analysis, and system testing. Supports recognition and reward strategies in a global matrix environment.

Leads regional development of advanced driver assistance features for North American commercial vehicles. Responsibilities include gathering software requirements, managing feature development and issues, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, configuring vehicle platforms, supporting validation and troubleshooting, analyzing ADAS performance data, addressing regulatory compliance, and serving as the local feature expert. The role requires engineering expertise in requirements specification, control systems modeling, system validation, and technical feature management.

Leads regional development of Active Lane Assist and Lane Departure Warning features for North American commercial vehicles. Owns steering-system interfaces, software requirements, feature integration, validation, configuration management, performance analysis, regulatory compliance, issue resolution, and cross-functional coordination. The role serves as local feature owner and expert while mentoring junior engineers and supporting development across global and regional teams.

Leads Make-versus-Buy analysis, strategic business cases, cost modeling, profitability assessments, transfer pricing, and external quotation support for AMS. Develops financial models and scenario analyses, advises management, governs pricing and costing methodologies, facilitates cross-functional decisions, and drives continuous improvement, ERP enhancements, and process standardization. Requires collaboration with Pricing, Purchasing, Operations, and Remanufacturing teams, with travel up to 25%.

Supports complex customer transaction pricing by developing pricing and contribution margin strategies with Sales and Finance leaders. Manages Transaction Council proposals, approval documentation, serial movements, concessions, pricing protection codes, invoicing support, and downstream execution. Partners cross-functionally with sales, controlling, remarketing, fleet services, retail pricing, and financial services teams. Ensures pricing accuracy, policy compliance, audit readiness, and timely communication of decisions.

Maintain and improve the facility’s ISO 9001 Quality Management System, coordinate internal and external audit readiness, and manage controlled documents and quality records. Support corrective and preventive actions, root cause investigations, continuous improvement, training, document revisions, and audit reporting. The role collaborates with Quality, Operations, Engineering, Safety, and leadership teams to ensure compliance, accurate records, timely corrective action closure, and ongoing quality system effectiveness.

Supervises bankruptcy, loss recovery, and collections teams across the US and Mexico. Leads coaching, call-quality initiatives, vendor and attorney relationships, process improvements, risk controls, and performance strategies. Reviews accounts and approves repossessions and charge-offs within delegated authority, ensuring documentation quality and regulatory compliance. Analyzes delinquency and financial metrics, identifies training opportunities, and partners with collections, customer care, operations, and vendor relations teams to improve recovery results and customer service.

Leads North American retail and wholesale syndication strategy across transportation and equipment finance asset classes. Develops investor relationships, originates and executes syndication transactions, creates funding structures, and advises executives on capital optimization. Oversees transaction servicing, reporting, compliance, governance, portfolio management, and operational infrastructure while building a scalable syndication platform. Partners with Sales, Credit, Treasury, Finance, Legal, Accounting, Operations, and Risk teams to support portfolio growth, liquidity, and balance sheet objectives.

Manage product cost optimization initiatives through DTNA’s unified OLT process. Responsibilities include maintaining project timelines, coordinating vehicle walkarounds, facilitating cross-functional meetings and design reviews, validating technical measures, managing action items, and preparing executive-level status reports and presentations. The role collaborates with Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing Engineering, Finance, Quality, and other teams to advance cost reduction and complexity optimization initiatives.

Provides hands-on assembly-line quality support in a Detroit plant environment. Coordinates defect problem-solving, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement. Analyzes assembly process, SPC, and quality performance data; supports PFMEAs, error-proofing, GD&T, CMM operations, and manufacturing process improvements. Collaborates cross-functionally, facilitates quality initiatives, reports progress to management, and drives issues through closure.

Manage distressed commercial fleet accounts, collections, credit analysis, and customized restructuring solutions. Review financial statements and economic trends, negotiate payment plans and asset liquidations, prepare restructure recommendations for senior management and credit committees, monitor Special Assets accounts, and ensure compliance with credit regulations. The role also supports Canadian customers, trains fleet collectors, contributes to process improvements, and collaborates with legal counsel and internal stakeholders.

Develop and optimize truck cab structures, including cabin floors and assemblies, for cost, manufacturability, reliability, and customer needs. Design components using CAD, support tooling and manufacturing of large stampings, and collaborate with suppliers, manufacturing, validation, quality, and other engineering teams. Create specifications and concepts, support production and service organizations, improve products, and mentor other engineers. The role is hybrid in Portland, Oregon, with no relocation assistance.

Leads hourly employees performing cleaning, teardown, and remanufacturing of electronic and mechatronic assemblies. Coordinates staffing, materials, production flow, overtime, quality, inventory transactions, and work instructions. Enforces safety, 5S, company policies, and ISO documentation requirements while coaching employees, addressing performance issues, resolving shortages and equipment problems, and driving continuous improvement. The role is onsite in Hibbing, Minnesota, with flexible shift availability required.

Administer GSA programs and ensure contract, pricing, and regulatory compliance. Process orders, maintain standard and option pricing, coordinate production, suppliers, dealers, manufacturing teams, and inspections, and manage documentation through final invoicing. Support quoting, field issues, repairs, and sales initiatives while interpreting federal standards, technical documentation, drawings, bills of material, and spreadsheet data.

Originates new commercial finance and service opportunities across US and Canadian markets, secures pilot funding, builds financial business cases, runs market experiments, and delivers validated programs for implementation. Partners across finance, credit, operations, marketing, legal, IT, and OEM teams while conducting competitive analysis and coaching an analyst. Requires strong entrepreneurial judgment, stakeholder influence, commercial finance expertise, and hands-on execution in ambiguous environments.

Leads engineering quality and design risk activities for commercial vehicle chassis systems. Responsibilities include moderating DFMEAs, identifying and mitigating safety-critical failure modes, developing component and system specifications, managing requirements and special characteristics, auditing supplier components, tracking quality actions and KPIs, and influencing cross-functional engineering teams before design release.

Leads OEM quality engineering across truck manufacturing facilities, supervising quality technicians and resolving customer complaints, defects, campaigns, and containment actions. Applies engineering analysis, root-cause methods, corrective action validation, audits, and quality metrics to address engine, powertrain, electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing issues. Coordinates cross-functional teams, customers, suppliers, logistics, and plant organizations while ensuring campaign execution, resource availability, documentation, and continuous improvement. The role is onsite in Detroit and requires regular travel to OEM locations.

Supports cost engineering for truck parts and tooling by calculating bottom-up costs using technical specifications, CAD models, part teardowns, materials, manufacturing processes, labor, and regional inputs. Prepares cost assessments and presentations, compares parts, identifies cost optimization opportunities, and improves costing methods and templates. Learns company IT systems and Daimler cost analysis methodologies while collaborating with global and cross-functional teams.