Donaldson is committed to solving the world’s most complex filtration challenges. Together, we make cool things. As an established technology and innovation leader, we are continuously evolving to meet the filtration needs of our changing world. Join a culture of collaboration and innovation that matters and a chance to learn, effect change, and make meaningful contributions at work and in communities.
Within our Mobile Solutions Business Unit, you will lead the application and development of fuel and lube filtration solutions for Original Equipment (OE) customers across EMEA, ensuring successful product launches while driving value engineering and cost optimization initiatives across our portfolio.
What We Offer:
- Hybrid work: working from the office 2–3 days per week
- Flexible working hours: start between 7 and 9 am
- Private healthcare
- Prepaid Edenred Sport & Culture card (80 PLN) or co-financing of a Medicover Sport card
- The option to join a group life insurance plan
- The option to join the Employee Capital Plans (PPK)
- Additional benefits under the Company Social Benefits Fund, including holiday allowance, Christmas vouchers, and other benefits
Your Responsibilies:
- Manage and coordinate the application and development of engine liquid filtration products for OE customers in EMEA, from early opportunity assessment through production hand-over.
- Create, review, and evaluate design concepts selecting the best solution from cost, performance, manufacturability, quality, and intellectual property perspectives.
- Ensure products are designed, validated, tested, benchmarked, and manufactured according to defined customer, technical, quality, production, PPAP, and relevant industry requirements.
- Conduct technical investigations, root-cause analysis and problem solving for issues identified during development, production, benchmarking, or in the field.
- Support VAVE / cost-saving projects by identifying, evaluating, and implementing design, material, and production process changes across the existing product range.
- Follow up project milestones, coordinate development steps, and ensure timely product release and successful project closure.
- Cooperate with Manufacturing, Production, Quality, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, and customers to maximize design for manufacturability and ensure smooth implementation of new products and changes in existing ones, including VAVE.
- Provide technical support to Sales, Customers, users in the field, and internal teams during product development, launch, and issue resolution.
- Work effectively within a multinational organization and maintain active cooperation with production plants and global engineering teams.
Your minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Engineering, preferably Mechanical, Industrial or Automotive Engineering.
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in R&D, design, product engineering, project engineering, application engineering, technical product management, or an equivalent engineering role.
- Project management skills with the ability to drive VAVE / cost-saving initiatives, manage priorities, coordinate cross-functional actions, and deliver measurable results.
- Fluent verbal and written English, with good communication skills.
- General knowledge of manufacturing methods, capabilities, materials, and processing technologies, including plastics, metals, aluminum die-casting, and rubber.
- Willingness to travel up to 10% of the time.
Your preferred Qualifications:
- Basic understanding of internal combustion engines and mobile equipment applications would be an advantage.
- Working experience in the automotive industry and familiarity with APQP, PPAP, DFSS, and IATF 16949 requirements would be an asset.
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Skills Required
- Master's degree in Engineering, preferably Mechanical, Industrial, or Automotive Engineering
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in R&D, design, product engineering, project engineering, application engineering, technical product management, or an equivalent engineering role
- Project management skills, including the ability to drive VAVE or cost-saving initiatives, coordinate cross-functional actions, manage priorities, and deliver measurable results
- Fluent verbal and written English with good communication skills
- General knowledge of manufacturing methods, capabilities, materials, and processing technologies, including plastics, metals, aluminum die-casting, and rubber
- Willingness to travel up to 10% of the time
- Basic understanding of internal combustion engines and mobile equipment applications
- Working experience in the automotive industry and familiarity with APQP, PPAP, DFSS, and IATF 16949 requirements
Donaldson Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs like a 401(k) match, profit-sharing, and an employee stock purchase plan are positioned as meaningful components of total compensation. Company materials consistently frame retirement benefits within a broader Total Rewards offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program with mental‑health resources create a comprehensive health and wellbeing package. Healthcare is often characterized as decent and a core strength of the overall offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and paid parental leave are explicitly included, alongside other company‑paid leaves such as bereavement, jury duty, and military leave. Some locations highlight multi‑week PTO from the first year, underscoring breadth of leave options.
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What We Do
Donaldson Company helps solve some of the world's most complex filtration and contamination control challenges, and is one of the largest global providers of unique filtration technologies and high-quality filters and parts. Our filtration technologies and products are used every day, in a variety of industries and environments, including aerospace, agriculture, construction, food and beverage, manufacturing, mining, power generation, transportation and many more. Key to our success, our 14,000 employees support customers at sales, manufacturing and distribution centers from over 140 locations on six continents. The filtration market continues to grow. Customers' needs for filtration solutions continue to evolve. And the opportunities for our products and our people continue to expand.
