Sr. Compound Engineer; Location: Akron, OH, United States; Job type: Direct hire; Industry: Automotive; Job function: Engineering

 

Job Title: Sr. Compound Engineer

• Location: Akron, OH, United States; Zip code: 44333
• Job type: Direct hire
• Industry: Automotive; Job function: Engineering
• Experience level: Mid-senior
• Education level: Bachelor’s degree
• Work location: On site;
• Skills: Compounding, Polymer, Forensics, Sustainability, Extrusion, Calendaring, Curing, R&D
• Experience required: 7 Years
• Relocation assistance: Yes

Note: The candidates need to have more than five years of development experience in Original Equipment (OE) with advanced tire manufacturers or previous experience working at an advanced tire maker.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBIOLITIES

• Develop new tire compounds to meet the optimal performance required for customer approvals.
• Maintain and enhance performance of existing tire compounds to meet customer expectations.
• Design laboratory studies to evaluate new compound technologies.
• Seek out new materials technologies.
• Perform forensic analysis on both new and tested products.
• Work closely with development engineers on all OEM and Replacement projects concerning compound selections and performance expectations.
• Travel to plants to assist in new compound development and processing studies as required.
• Communicate directly with other company R&D centers as required.

REQUIRED SKILLS/ABILITIES:

• The ability to work with cross-functional and international teams is a must.
• Knowledge of plant-related activities concerning compound mixing, extrusion, calendaring, tire building and curing processes is a must.
• The ability to work directly with plant compound specialists, production teams and process engineers is a must.
• Experience and knowledge concerning polymers, fillers, and reinforcements is a must.
• A strong understanding of sustainability efforts in the tire industry is required
• Domestic and international travel is required.  A current passport is required.
• Lean, Quality and On Time Delivery approach Skills and experience are required.
• Self-managed, dynamic, and willing to make the extra effort to push for success is required.
• Knowledge of regulatory issues concerning materials and tires is strongly desirable.
• Proficiency in the statistical design of experiments is preferred.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• BS, MS, or PhD degree in Chemical Engineering or Chemistry
• Knowledge of tire design and/or standards are required.
• Knowledge of OE product development is required.
• Exposure to OE plant development and having a broad base of knowledge in compounding science.
• 5-15 years’ experience in OEM compound development.

DEPARTMENT: Kumho Akron Technical Center

REPORTS TO: Materials Group Manager

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• No direct supervisory responsibilities

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Test Driver - Engineering; Location: Akron, OH, United States; Job type: Direct hire; Industry: Automotive; Engineering

 

Job Title: Test Driver -Engineering

• Work Location: Akron, OH, United States; On site; Zip code: 44333
• Job type: Direct hire
• Industry: Automotive; Job function: Engineering
• Experience level: Mid-senior
• Education level: Bachelor’s degree
• Skills: Vehicle Testing, Vehicle Operation, Data Analysis, Scheduling, Test Driver
• Experience required: 4 Years
• Relocation assistance: Yes
• Note: The candidates need to have more than five years of development experience in Original Equipment (OE) with advanced tire manufacturers or previous experience working at an advanced tire maker.

JOB SUMMARY

• Responsible for managing and executing tire vehicle testing within North America for Kumho America Technical Center (KATC). This includes scheduling, obtaining quotes, acquiring test vehicles and wheels, ordering necessary benchmark tires, collecting test data, creating official test reports, and communicating results back to the requested tire engineer. Ability and willingness to travel within North America to test sites as programs dictate. Working with other KATC test drivers as well as other OEM test drivers to correlate testing procedures and evaluations. Collaborate with KATC tire engineers to continuously improve data collection process. Communicate with KATC warehouse technician to assist with shipping desired tires and or wheels.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage North America internal vehicle testing primarily Ride and Handling
• Schedule test tracks and obtain quotes through Proving Grounds
• Acquire test vehicles (rent/lease) and wheels (rent or KATC inventory)
• Arrange tire/wheel mounting and shipment to and from Proving Grounds
• Collect test data at Proving Ground, create reports and communicate results
• Manage North America external testing with third party test evaluators
• Manage and schedule snow handling and traction testing
• Collaborate with tire engineers to improve data collection process
• Align with other Kumho test drivers for consistent test procedures and evaluations
• Ability and willingness to travel to proving grounds as programs dictate

REQUIRED SKILLS / ABILITIES / EDUCATION

• 4-year Bachelors Degree in a technical field
• Prior tire test driver experience for vehicle testing (3+ years)
• Computer (Microsoft Office) skills in data acquisition and analysis.
• Able to work independently as well as in a team.
• Motivated, engaged, communicative and willing to learn new methods and technology in testing.

DESIRED SKILLS / ABILITIES / EDUCATION

• Prior experience with Automotive OEM tire testing
• Working knowledge of tire engineering
• Experience with Tire mounting equipment operation

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Lead Application Support Engineer (2nd Shift 2 pm - 10 pm CT); Location: Dallas, TX, United States; Job type: Direct hire; Industry: Financial Services; Information Technology

 

Job Title: Lead Application Support Engineer (2nd Shift 2 pm - 10 pm CT)

• Work Location: Dallas, TX, United States; Zip code: 75019
• Job type: Direct hire
• Industry: Financial Services; Job function: Information Technology
• Experience level: Mid-senior
• Education level: Bachelor’s degree
• Work Type: Hybrid; DTCC offers a hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).
• Skills: Distributed, Distributed Application, Distributed Applications, Container, Containers, Orchestration, Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift, CA AutoSys, SQL, Informatica Datahub, Informatica, Datahub, IDQ, JavaScript, Unix, Linux, PLSQL, PL/SQL
• Experience required: 8 Years
• Willing to work in the 2nd shift from 2 pm - 10 pm CT.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• The Application Support Engineering role specializes in maintaining and providing technical support for all applications that are beyond the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm.
• Works closely with development teams, infrastructure partners, and internal / external clients to raise and resolve technical support incidents.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Experience with using ITIL Change, Incident and Problem management processes.
• Resolve critical production issues by leading Major Incident calls, engaging accurate teams, and driving root cause analysis.
• Troubleshoot and debug system component(s) to resolve technical issues in sophisticated and highly regulated environments comprised of ground and cloud applications and services.
• Analyze proposed application design(s) and provide feedback on potential gaps or provide recommendations for optimization.
• Contribute to Monthly Service Reviews (MSR) with Development partners to go over KPI metrics.
• Participate in Disaster Recovery / Loss of Region events (planned and unplanned) completing tasks and collecting evidence.
• Collaborate both within the team and across teams to resolve application issues and calls out as needed. Partner with development teams to provide feedback into the design and development stages of applications.
• Support audit requests in a timely fashion providing needed documentation and evidence.
• Plan and implement certificate creation/renewals as needed.
• Create, Modify and Monitor Dashboards to better catch potential issues and aide in observability.
• Strong ability to capture and analyze project requirements and translate them into technical specification(s).
• Resolve Critical application alerts in a timely fashion including production defects, providing business impact and analysis to teams.
• Review and update knowledge articles and runbooks with application development teams to confirm information is up to date.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort associated with application monitoring.
• Implement the pre-production/production application code deployment plans and end to end vendor application upgrade process (e.g., SNOW, SF, etc)
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk; advances appropriately.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor\'s degree and/or equivalent experience.
• Wiling to work in 2nd shift from 2 pm - 10 pm CT.
• Hands on experience in distributed systems like Unix, Linux, Windows, SQL/PLSQL
• Preferred to have Mainframe troubleshooting and support skills (COBOL, JCL, DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, CICS, SPUFI, File aid)
• Good to have Mainframe scheduling (Job abends, Predecessor/Successor)
• Scheduling Tool experience (CA AutoSys, Control-M)
• Familiarity working with relational databases (DB2, Oracle, Snowflake)
• Monitoring and Data Tools experience (Splunk, Dynatrace, Thousand Eyes, Grafana, Selenium, HiPam IBM Zolda)
• Cloud Technologies (AWS services (S3,EC2,Lambda,SQS,IAM roles), Azure, OpenShift, RDS Aurora, Postgress) is preferred
• Middleware experience (Solace, Tomcat, Liberty Server, WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss)
• Messaging Queue Systems (IBM MQ, Oracle AQ, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• Scripting languages (Bash, Python, Ruby, Shell, Perl, JavaScript)
• Proven experience with ETL tools (Informatica Datahub/IDQ, Talend)

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Cultivates a culture where integrity and visibility are encouraged.
• Stays ahead of on changes in their own specialist area and seeks out learning opportunities to ensure knowledge is up to date.
• Invest effort to individually mentor others.
• Build collaborative teams across the organization.
• Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization advised.

ABOUT DTCC:

• With 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance, and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes and bringing increased security, enhanced resilience, and soundness to financial markets. In 2022, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $2.5 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $72 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 17.5 billion messages annually.

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