The Role
Leads the integration, certification, launch, troubleshooting, and optimization of dispensing and joining equipment within Body in White operations. Coordinates with engineering teams, suppliers, integrators, skilled trades, and plant managers to ensure equipment meets specifications, productivity, cost, quality, and timing goals. Conducts equipment buy-offs, maintains certification documentation, supports plant launches and non-new-model operations, drives cost reduction and asset reuse, tracks KPIs, and communicates process improvements across North American operations.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
The Vehicle Process Engineering – Dispensing Technical Lead is responsible for ensuring the successful integration and launch of joining equipment, within the Body Shop, while supporting non-new model activities. Additional responsibilities will include:
- Ensuring dispensing equipment suppliers and integrators deliver equipment in conformance with North America Body in White dispensing specifications
- Participate in throughout analysis reviews and present countermeasures for improvement
- Work directly with Product Engineering, Material Suppliers, Equipment Suppliers and integrators for successful joining launch certification
- Ensure joining Early Equipment Management (EEM) deliverables are reviewed, and approved, within Body in White joining specifications
- Maintain and ensure joining dispensing certification is maintained throughout the launch process
- Provide constant feedback to VPE Body in White management personnel pertaining to equipment operation, productivity and cost / quality improvements
- Work directly with Engineers, Skilled Trades and cross-functional Managers to accomplish project improvement, cost reduction and timing estimates
- Support plant program launches throughout Body in White joining operations
- Conduct dispensing equipment buy-offs
- Maintain and update certification documentation and specifications
- Provide technical direction to suppliers and internal plant team members
- Implement cost reduction projects and determine asset reusability
- Support non-new model Body in White dispensing operations by ensuring throughput optimization, equipment supplier support and troubleshooting techniques
- Support the Stellantis Production Way (SPW) Innovation and Early Equipment Management (EEM) pillars
- Lead bi-weekly Dispensing CoC call-ins and ensure KPIs are recorded and maintained
- Maintain and update dispensing equipment and certification specifications
- Develop and maintain the Joining Tech V workbook and buy-off documentation
- Implement and ensure read-across ideas and equipment improvements are communicated throughout North America Body in White dispensing operations
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree
- Minimum 3 years of manufacturing experience related to joining technologies (primarily dispensing equipment)
- Knowledge of Nordson, Atlas Copco, IDS and additional dispensing equipment suppliers
- Strong understanding of dispensing parameter development, equipment troubleshooting and operation requirements
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Travel domestic and international required
- Self-motivated champion of change
- Ability to work overtime and travel as required
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years of manufacturing experience related to joining technologies (primarily dispensing equipment)
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- At least 3 years of manufacturing experience related to joining technologies, primarily dispensing equipment
- Knowledge of Nordson, Atlas Copco, IDS, and other dispensing equipment suppliers
- Strong understanding of dispensing parameter development, equipment troubleshooting, and operation requirements
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Domestic and international travel
- Ability to work overtime as required
- At least 5 years of manufacturing experience related to joining technologies, primarily dispensing equipment
Stellantis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stellantis and has not been reviewed or approved by Stellantis.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Contract-driven increases lifted hourly wages roughly 25% over 4.5 years and restored cost-of-living adjustments, pushing top rates near $42 per hour by the end of the agreement. Union hourly positions appear to have benefited most since the 2023 deal.
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Affordable Benefits — UAW-represented hourly workers pay no premiums and about 3% of total healthcare costs while receiving comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and wellness coverage. This creates materially lower out-of-pocket costs for represented hourly roles.
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Retirement Support — Post-2007 hourly hires receive a 10% employer 401(k) contribution and legacy workers saw defined-benefit improvements with retiree bonuses. Salaried roles also cite a 401(k) with employer match and contribution up to a maximum of 8%.
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Our storied and iconic brands embody the passion of their visionary founders and today’s customers in their innovative products and services: they include Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall and mobility brands Free2move and Leasys. Powered by our diversity, we lead the way the world moves – aspiring to become the greatest sustainable mobility tech company, not the biggest, while creating added value for all stakeholders as well as the communities in which we operate.
