High Voltage Battery Regulation, Requirements, and Standards Engineer

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Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Rochester Hills, MI

10,001+ employees

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About the position

The High Voltage Battery Regulation, Requirements, and Standards Engineer at International Corporation is responsible for ensuring compliance with safety, regulatory, and standards requirements for high voltage battery rechargeable energy storage systems (RESS). This role involves collaboration with internal teams and partners to develop and harmonize requirements across various markets, ensuring that products meet necessary certifications and standards. The position is hybrid, allowing for both in-office and remote work, and is critical in supporting the company's commitment to sustainable mobility.

Responsibilities

• Authoring of RESS Requirements for Safety, Regulatory, Standards compliance and certification.
• Identifying & reconciling global, governmental, regional, industry, TRATON & Navistar brand requirements that are applicable to the RESS.
• Represents Navistar in forums & consortiums for North American applications while harmonizing for other markets and TRATON partners.
• Clarifies requirement ambiguities - identifies issues with requirements and supports resolution of potential missing & conflicting requirements.
• Reconciliation of Regulation & Standard differences across various markets the TRATON partners sell vehicles to harmonize and pursue a common solution.
• Flows high-level requirements down to the DRD (Design Requirements Document) for the RESS.
• Responsible for the compliance portion of the RESS DVP&R, including resource planning, authoring test procedures, and assessment of results.
• Authoring of RESS Verification & Validation methods & test plan to demonstrate compliance for a Lab-Bench prototype environment and a Vehicle-Level prototype environment.
• Manages any special testing required to satisfy regulatory bodies for RESS, such as FMVSS, ECE, CARB.
• Supports any vehicle-level testing required to satisfy all safety, regulatory, standards compliance.
• Lead or assist in root-cause analysis (8D) and suggest corrective actions of RESS non-compliance issues to Specifications in DRD.
• Author and maintain RESS requirements interface document linking Safety, Regulatory, and Standards to System & Component-level DRDs & Verification plans.
• Develop excel-based tools to facilitate quick assessment and visualization.
• Work with vehicle controls & battery controls teams to ensure compliance of RESS HV architecture, SW functions, and EV Vehicle controls and interfaces.
• Work with brand vehicle performance teams to understand customer use-cases & differences in Applications, as they relate to potential variation of compliance in varying markets.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology with at least 5 years of experience in product design/development, or a Master's degree with at least 3 years of experience, or a PhD in Engineering or Engineering Technology.

Nice-to-haves

• Engineering degree, MS or PhD preferred
• Experience with FMVSS 305, ECE R100, and UN GTR No. 20.
• Working knowledge of thermodynamics, EMC/EMI, grounding & bonding best practices.
• Working knowledge of on/off vehicle DAQ systems.
• Hands-on experience with power-electronics and electrified propulsion systems.
• Hands-on experience working on HV lithium-ion batteries.
• Experience with physical testing of RESSes.
• Working knowledge of CAN, LIN, and other relevant communication protocol (J1939).
• Familiar with design-for-serviceability concepts.
• Working knowledge of HV battery management systems, cell balancing, HV isolation monitoring.
• DFSS green or black-belt certification preferred.
• Ability and flexibility to travel, including internationally, for 1 to 2 weeks a few times per year.

Benefits

• Hybrid work environment (3 days in office, 2 days remote)
• Opportunities for professional development
• Participation in a leading company in the commercial vehicle industry
• Collaboration with international teams and partners