SCOPE: Reports to the Manager of Sales and Customer Service. Scope of work reflects a moderate level of ability in understanding mechanical concepts and explaining them for the purpose of solving problems and selling parts.

SUMMARY: As a Sales and Technical Representative, you will take inbound calls from customers and potential customers. We provide them with technical assistance and parts selection with a focus on selling them everything they need to upgrade their vehicle.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist customers in buying and installing our high-performance disc brake systems
• Resolve customer service issues with patience and genuine concern for a positive outcome
• Must be comfortable asking customers if they would like to place an order
• Learn about a wide variety of vehicles, applications, and adaptations
• Accurately identify and report problems to management
• Remain calm with frustrated and frustrating customers
• Focused attention to detail and accuracy
• Proficient in MS Office applications, Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.

Qualification Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the education, experience, knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Requirements:

• Personal or professional experience building, maintaining, or driving high-performance vehicles
• Experience in a sales/customer service environment
• Ability to speak and write in a professional manner with correct basic grammar and spelling
• Willingness to learn a lot about how cars and their brake systems work
• Professional attitude with customers and co-workers

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, or other applicable discipline
• Professional experience in building and maintaining high-performance cars
• Sales experience within the high-performance automotive industry, including working trade show/car show booths

Skills and Abilities:

Ability to understand how things work, explain them, and manage the human interaction with the customer.

Ability to identify problems with products, trace the origins of the issue, and accurately report that via internal reporting forms.

Knowledge of materials, basic scientific concepts, manufacturing techniques, and high-quality customer service.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand,walk, sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, use a personal computer, talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 lbs.

Salary Range: $20-$24/hr. $600-$1000 Commission monthly

Wilwood Engineering is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to providing all with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status, age, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

SCOPE:Reports to the Director of Engineering. Scope and quantity of projects reflect a low to moderate level of ability and experience in product development.

SUMMARY:As a Lead R&D Engineer, designs and analyzes brake systems and related components. Independently manages development projects from inception to production.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Create product designs in 3D CAD system (Solidworks)
• Coordinate prototype development
• Oversee product testing and validation, including brake dynamometer testing
• Create test plans and compose test reports
• Participate in project update meetings
• Work with management and engineering support team to achieve project goals
• Simultaneously manage multiple projects from inception to production
• Interface on a technical level with customers and vendors
• Communicate technical information required by Project Coordination, Purchasing, Production Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality Assurance
• Understand brake related industry standards, such as FMVSS
• Analyze vehicle dynamics to determine the braking requirements for customer applications
• Check manufacturing drawings to company standards
• Perform computer FEA analyses on product designs
• Occasional travel to customer, vendor, or test locations
• Alert management to potential design risks
• Ensure that products are cost effective, price competitive and maintain a high standard of quality and integrity
• Maintain effective operational procedures to assure configuration control and accuracy
• Monitor and report when necessary on critical producibility or high variability points within the developmental process flow
• Participate in the ‘Research and Development to Production Transition’ process to assure good configuration control and low design and inventory risk
• Seek professional growth and advancement through continued education

Qualification Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the education, experience, knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering – preferably Mechanical or Automotive Engineering
• Automotive related experience
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail and good organizational skills
• Hands-on 3D modeling proficiency (SolidWorks preferred)

Must be able to demonstrate understanding of brake systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two years’ experience in mechanical engineering
• Working knowledge of FEA simulation software
• Experience with hydraulics, braking systems, and vehicle dynamics
• Lean Six Sigma certification

Skills and Abilities:

Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations. Ability to read ANSI Y14.5 drawings with and understanding of true positioning and geometric tolerancing, and a working knowledge of descriptive geometry. Ability to visualize three-dimensional views from a two-dimensional drawing and vice versa.

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Knowledge of materials and processes in a manufacturing environment in order to determine good manufacturing practices. Ability to translate these concepts into tangible benefits.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand,walk, sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, use a personal computer, talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 lbs.

Salary Range: $55-$100K Annually (Commensurate with experience)

Wilwood Engineering is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to providing all with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status, age, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

SCOPE: Reports to the Director of Engineering. Scope and quantity of projects reflect a high level of ability and experience in product development.

SUMMARY: As a Lead R&D Engineer, designs and analyzes brake systems and related components. Independently manages development projects from inception to production.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create product designs in 3D CAD system (Solidworks).
• Coordinate prototype development.
• Oversee product testing and validation, including brake dynamometer testing.
• Create test plans and compose test reports.
• Participate in project update meetings.
• Work with management and engineering support team to achieve project goals.
• Simultaneously manage multiple projects from inception to production.
• Interface on a technical level with customers and vendors.
• Communicate technical information required by Project Coordination, Purchasing, Production Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality Assurance.
• Understand brake-related industry standards, such as FMVSS.
• Analyze vehicle dynamics to determine the braking requirements for customer applications.
• Work with OEM sales and logistics staff on customer proposals and application-specific product development.
• Support Quality Assurance with OEM customer quality issues.
• Check manufacturing drawings to company standards.
• Perform computer FEA analyses on product designs
• Occasional travel to customer, vendor, or test locations.
• Alert management to potential design risks.
• Ensure that products are cost-effective, price competitive and maintain a high standard of quality and integrity.
• Maintain effective operational procedures to assure configuration control and accuracy.
• Monitor and report when necessary on critical producibility or high variability points within the developmental process flow.
• Train subordinates to provide proper proficiency, breadth and depth, career progression and succession.
• Participate in the ‘Research and Development to Production Transition’ process to ensure good configuration control and low design and inventory risk.
• Seek professional growth and advancement through continued education.

Qualification Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the education, experience, knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering – preferably Mechanical or Automotive Engineering
• Seven years experience in mechanical engineering
• Automotive related experience
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail and good organizational skills
• Hands-on 3D modeling proficiency (SolidWorks preferred)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of FEA simulation software
• Experience with hydraulics, braking systems, and vehicle dynamics
• Lean Six Sigma certification

Skills and Abilities:
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations. Ability to read ANSI Y14.5 drawings with and understanding of true positioning and geometric tolerancing and a working knowledge of descriptive geometry. Ability to visualize three-dimensional views from a two-dimensional drawing and vice versa.

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret a wide variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Knowledge of materials and processes in a manufacturing environment in order to determine good manufacturing practices. Ability to translate these concepts into tangible benefits.

Salary Range:  $80K - $130K annual (Commensurate with experience)

Wilwood Engineering is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to providing all with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status, age, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.