Warranty Engineer (m/f/d) Brose Sitech
As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.
Your tasks
- Monitor and analyze field warranty data for seating systems, including frames, tracks, recliners, foam, trim covers, airbags (seat-mounted), heaters/ventilation, and electrical components.
- Identify high-frequency, high-cost, and emerging quality issues related to the seating commodity.
- Develop and maintain warranty reports and dashboards to support management reviews and escalation meetings.
- Lead root cause analysis using OEM-standard methodologies (8D, 5-Why, Ishikawa, FMEA alignment).
- Support OEM vehicle teardowns, field inspections, and failure analysis to determine true root causes.
- Coordinate with design engineering, manufacturing, quality, and suppliers to define and implement corrective actions.
- Validate the effectiveness of countermeasures through data analysis, testing, or field observations.
- Support warranty cost recovery activities with suppliers when applicable.
- Support field investigations, part returns, and tear-down analysis related to seat warranty claims.
Your Profile
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or related field.
- 3-7 years of experience in automotive warranty, quality, design, or manufacturing engineering.
- Demonstrated experience with automotive seating or interior components.
- Strong data analysis skills and experience working with warranty databases and large data sets.
- Proficiency in problem-solving methodologies (8D, FMEA, statistical analysis).
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Occasional domestic and international travel (approximate 10-20%), including supplier site and manufacturing plants, as required.
Brose offers a high-tech work environment and a wide range of benefits. Along with competitive performance-based compensation and health insurance, our employees also benefit from attractive social and family-oriented programs throughout our North American locations*. Our benefits packages include comprehensive medical and insurance. Brose also provides educational assistance and a variety of community outreach, family, and sporting events. Flexible working hours and a collaborative work environment give our employees the freedom to balance work and personal life. Brose believes in investing in people. We offer a wide range of development programs with great opportunity for individual growth through training, international or regional assignments and tailored career paths. Our objective is to provide our employees the tools necessary to live a balanced life, experience a rewarding work environment and contribute to our surrounding communities.
*Benefits package may vary slightly per location