The Welding Engineer is responsible for but not limited to:

Provide support to and collaborate with product development, manufacturing weld process and materials engineers in defining lightweight, corrosion-resistant and volume production robust weld joints through proper selection of processes, materials and definition of associated part geometry

Develop and oversee laboratory tests in support of product design development, evaluation of new welding technologies, approval of new material substrates and weld-ability evaluation of sealers, adhesives, oils, lubricants, washes, drawing compounds and pre-phosphates

Maintain corporate engineering design and process standards that multiple welding, brazing, and soldering processes

Remain abreast of emerging welding technologies through literature research and participation in industrial technical consortia activities

Provide technical consultation to Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing and corporate supply base with respect to pre-production and volume production builds

Provide assistance in product root cause analysis by leveraging the Materials Engineering laboratory via test request generation and data analysis

Assist in the identification and initiation of corrective actions