Testing Engineer

When you join the Sandalwood team, you’ll join an engaging and inclusive group with a mission to help our customers identify, assess, and reduce work-related risks to quality, productivity, and employee health.

In your day to day activities, you’ll work with multiple customers, as a consultant and trusted partner in Sandalwood’s areas of expertise of Injury Prevention, Systems Engineering & Systems Integration. You’ll help customers innovate, solve their current struggles and guide them with the power of Sandalwood’s deeply ingrained subject matter expertise.

You will have opportunities to help lead your own individual development with programs designed to guide you. Feeling you haven’t been recognized lately? You will have the chance to consistently appreciate your coworkers and be appreciated by your coworkers for continued distinction using our peer to peer appreciation and feedback software.

You will be encouraged to participate in Sandalwood’s multitude of extra-curricular activities including:

• An innovative health, safety and wellness program
• An internal innovation forum to guide and develop innovation initiatives
• The all-team meeting and staff day planning committee, dedicated to fostering team dynamics, collaboration and cross-functional interactions
• Participating in on-campus and virtual recruiting
• The social committee plans various get-togethers for the team outside of work
• Our cross-line of business marketing committee assists with marketing planning, ideas and collaboration
• The mentorship program provides a forum for mentors/mentees to connect and provide feedback, make connections and offer encouragement
• Community involvement opportunities driven by our team’s background, our companies’ core values and community need

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At Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics, we are looking for a dynamic and results-oriented professional to join a project an be responsible for validation, installation, commissioning, and continuous improvement of test processes and equipment for the processes assigned.

It is a hands-on role in manufacturing, focused on testing, not design.

Skills / Abilities:

• Quick learning
• Organizational and planning skills
• Time availability and working under pressure
• Teamwork, proactive, sense of urgency, customer service attitude to drive customer satisfaction (internal and external)
• Strong negotiation skills to drive timing targets
• Ability to report project status accurately and in timely fashion to manager level management.
• Ability to take decisions under pressure

Professional Experience / required knowledge:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, or related field).

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in testing

• Hands-on experience with:

1. Isolation testing
2. Functional validation in a production environment
3. Vibration

• Mechanical and electrical aptitude to understand:

1. Part function.
2. Stand Function.

• Experience with test equipment installation and commissioning, including validation and ramp-up.
• Programming and application experience in computers and electronics.
• Assembly process knowledge/experience.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience correlating process parameters with defect generation.
2. Machine design knowledge/experience.
3. Exposure to continuous improvement methodologies (Six Sigma, etc.).
4. Mechanical engineering aptitude

Language Skills

Advanced proficiency in English (written and verbal) to support global reporting, technical documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Validate the safe operation and functional performance of power unit assemblies, ensuring correct behavior under defined NVH, electrical and leakage specifications and production constraints.
• Verify power unit functionality at end-of-line (EOL) through system-level checks, confirming correct signal response, overall system readiness and NVH data acquisition through measuring and analysis of vibration data in Frequency, Orden and Time domain.
• Work with and understand typical final assembly EOL test sequences, including:

o System initiation and readiness checks

o Measure and analyze vehicle NVH data.

o Motor efficiency

o Resolver offset calibration

• Install, validate, and bring up test equipment in production, including setup, calibration, correlation, and ensuring stable and repeatable operation during ramp-up.
• Define and maintain test parameters, limits, and pass/fail criteria, aligned with product safety, functionality, and manufacturing requirements.
• Work with product engineering establishing NVH Engineering Specifications (ES) for tests and to determine Final (EOL) Vibration test methodology for new programs
• Troubleshoot test failures in production, identifying whether the source is related to the unit, the test system, or process/environmental variation, and driving corrective actions. Power Electronics Test Engineer
• Implement test sequence (software) updated to support validation, failure analysis, corrective actions and continuous improvement of test processes.
• Review PTO quality indicators and evaluate test enhancements to address issues, reduce warranty and improve customer satisfaction
• Implement test station modifications as required for new models and corrective actions
• Implement test sequence (software) updates for new models and corrective actions
• Interface with Supplier and Product Engineering on est related process questions and machine/product development
• Develop production processes aligned to standard Bill of Process strategies through system inquiry, simultaneous engineering, build, installation, and commissioning phases.
• Ensure production systems meet all objectives through R&M, Process Design and FMEA's

Health Care Plan

Paid Time Off

Training & Development