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Akkodis is seeking a Design Release Engineer for a Contract 12+ Months job with a client in Auburn Hills, MI.

Rate Range: $40/hour to $42/hour; on W2. The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Design Release Engineer

Interface with cross functional team to design and develop functional solutions that achieve design requirements & to ensure proper design interfaces with other components, and all requirements are met.

Work with other functions Design / Releasing teams to ensure consistency in requirements, standards, and practices across programs.

Translate Functional Objectives into technical requirements and solutions

Create and analyze alternative design concepts

Integrating system components

Support Benchmarking of competitive vehicles.

Desired Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and or MBA from an ABET accredited university (or equivalent).

Experience developing Performance Standards, Creating master sections and Surface feasibility proposal for PDO.

NX and Teamcenter knowledge.

Automotive Interior Product Design components/systems.

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Henniges Automotive has an opportunity for a Senior Industrial Engineer to join the Cost Estimation team. The Senior Industrial Engineer will design, develop, test and evaluate integrated systems for managing industrial production processes including human work factors, quality control, inventory control, logistics and material flow, cost analysis and production coordination. Create and administrate the activities and processes of Industrial Engineering, layouts, capacity analysis through knowledge application and techniques in accordance with the guideline of plant operation (BOS) to ensure the space optimization, materials and labor and meet the productivity and efficiency goals set by management.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Apply industrial engineering principles to implement cost estimation tools for all phases of manufacturing programs taking into account product definition and requirements as well as potential engineering changes.
• Lead ‘Design for Manufacturability’ (DFM) reviews to determine technical feasibility and cost inputs for new customer quotes.
• Participate in the creation of process flow and work cells for the efficient and ergonomic flow of materials for manufacturing processes and overall plant layout.
• Participate in Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing, HPS and 5S organizational and process reviews.
• Analyze capacity for equipment and product lines.
• Ability to analyze and improve manufacturing processes.
• Support process method possibilities and tooling capabilities to ensure that products are manufactured to satisfy customer expectations.
• Perform advanced analysis of cost structures and manufacturing feasibility and advise program managers of design and manufacturing alternatives to reduce cost and increase production.
• Generate multiple iterations of cost sheets for side-to-side comparisons of multiple and alternative material options, multiple equipment processing options, and multiple labor staffing scenarios across multiple plants and manufacturing locations.
• Combine all aspects of material, tooling, and labor to develop best-cost solutions and profitability opportunities.
• Run revised cost development for effects on labor, material, and process change parameters, and recommend best-course actions.
• Collect and analyze financial data (including consolidated costs, piece tooling, and investments) for manufacturing programs.
• Develop and analyze calculations for contribution margins, testing costs, and for amortizations of minimum purchases of raw materials and tooling.
• Analyze program expenditure for tooling and process fixtures and compare the same to estimated costs.
• Develop capital expenditure requirements based on capacity analysis of existing and potential business needs.
• Continuous improvement activities.
• Estimate production costs, cost saving methods, and the effects of production design changes on expenditures for management review, action and control.
• Recommend methods for improving utilization of personnel, material and utilities.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.
• Local candidates only.

Education and Experience

• Minimum: Bachelor Degree in Engineering or equivalent technical experience.
• Preferred: Bachelor Degree in Industrial Engineering.
• Minimum: Knowledge and skills typically acquired through 7 plus years of experience in manufacturing operations, industrial engineering activities or related field.

Skills and Abilities

• Consulting and influencing skills consistent with the ability to build relationships and influence parties; may include getting parties to embrace changing expectations and initiatives.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills consistent with the ability to identify key issues from a broad range of alternatives and recommend optimal solutions for various situations.
• Develops challenging short-and long-term group plans and objectives aligned with those of the department and/or company; solicits staff input in the development process.
• Working knowledge of automotive manufacturing processes, practices and challenges.
• Ability to apply project planning, implementation, and/or continuous improvement principles to affect tangible, positive outcomes.
• Proficiency in the following software applications: Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook; and AutoCAD sufficient to apply and/or support the application with the minimal instructions or guidance; this level of proficiency is typically attainable through 3 plus years of substantive experience with the applications.
• Promotes an atmosphere conducive to the open exchange of new ideas, and alternatives to orthodox approaches.
• Deals effectively with resistance; takes positive steps to avoid the recurrence of errors through constructive critique.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to effectively communicate information to diverse audiences.

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

The Junior Electrical Engineer will support the integration and coordination of vehicle electrical architecture, system specifications, documentation releases, and change management activities. The role involves assisting in requirements analysis, vehicle configuration (PROXI), and supporting early-stage vehicle builds at the assembly plant.

This position works closely with cross-functional teams to help ensure timely delivery of program milestones and electrical system integration activities.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Support cross-functional coordination to help meet program deliverables and timelines
• Review program timing, product plans, series cards, and bulletins; communicate updates to relevant teams
• Assist in reviewing investigation bulletins and collaborate with the EE team to provide technical feedback
• Support management of electrical deliverables within the vehicle program
• Participate in Post-2A risk mitigation meetings
• Support RAR (Red-Amber-Red) process activities
• Assist in creating and managing Project Specification Releases (Source Package, 1A, 2A, etc.)
• Help manage Post-2A change request (CR) lists for PWB integration loops
• Process and track specification change requests (CRs) in DOORS and other change management systems
• Support PROXI/Vehicle Configuration updates
• Assist during initial development vehicle builds at assembly plants
• Participate in electrical issue resolution meetings and program reviews

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• 1–3 years of automotive electrical engineering experience (or strong internship/co-op experience)
• Basic understanding of vehicle electrical systems and architecture
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Ability to organize and document technical information clearly

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering (nice to have)
• Exposure to component releasing, validation, or system/vehicle testing
• Familiarity with assembly plant electrical test systems
• Understanding of change management processes
• Ability to work independently with guidance from senior engineers
• Comfortable interfacing with manufacturing/assembly plant teams

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.

365 Retail Markets is the most trusted global provider of unattended retail technology, delivering conveniently smart self-service solutions since 2008. The company's all-in-one platform powers retail spaces across food service, global retail, and hospitality with a comprehensive suite of frictionless smart stores, micro markets, vending, catering, and dining point-of-sale options. These technologies can be found worldwide in corporate offices, manufacturing and distribution facilities, educational campuses, hotels, and beyond.

As a nine-time honoree on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in the United States, and with a continually expanding global presence, 365 Retail Markets is committed to growth, innovation, and providing superior, integrated technology that meets the evolving needs of its customers and consumers.

The retail industry is rapidly evolving, with Computer Vision (CV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) reshaping consumer experiences while improving operational efficiency and margins. As Senior Product Manager for our CV + AI portfolio, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of AI-enabled products that power next-generation frictionless retail experiences.

You will be accountable for defining and executing both short-term, tactical initiatives and long-term platform strategy, ensuring alignment with 365's broader business objectives. This role requires strong cross-functional leadership, deep product thinking, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive stakeholders.

This position reports to the Manager, Product Management and has high visibility across executive leadership and all 365 brands.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the AI and Computer Vision product roadmap, setting a clear long-term platform vision while balancing near-term delivery priorities aligned to business objectives, customer needs, and industry trends.
• Deliver features and enhancements on time and to plan, owning the full lifecycle from ideation, discovery, and requirements through launch and post-release evaluation.
• Translate machine learning, computer vision, and generative AI (including LLMs) capabilities into scalable, user-centric product features.
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Data Science, Design, Marketing, Sales, and Operations to ensure successful execution and adoption.
• Work closely with other Senior Product Managers to ensure a consistent, seamless, and effective consumer experience across product lines.
• Identify and evaluate high-impact AI use cases through a deep understanding of business context, data availability, and technical feasibility.
• Oversee model development, training, deployment, and iteration to ensure solutions perform reliably in real-world retail environments, including edge deployment constraints (latency, compute, bandwidth), lighting variability, occlusion, and ongoing product packaging changes.
• Collaborate with data and engineering teams to ensure responsible AI practices, including bias mitigation, data integrity, and model interpretability.
• Monitor competitive landscape and emerging AI trends to maintain 365's innovation leadership.
• Communicate product vision, trade-offs, and progress clearly to executive leadership to drive fast alignment and informed decision-making.
• Own go-to-market readiness and pilot execution, ensuring customer readiness, coordinating launch plans, and enabling internal teams (Support, Sales, Operations) through training, documentation, and clear launch handoff.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in computer sciences or software engineering. MBA preferred.
• 5-8+ years Product Management experience
• Proven experience owning complex product portfolios, including both tactical execution and long-term strategic planning, ensuring effective product lifecycle management.
• Experience delivering Machine Learning products in collaboration with Data Science and ML Engineering teams, including experimentation, model evaluation, and continuous performance optimization.
• Specifying requirements, execution and evaluation of designs, analysis, development, testing and control of major engineering projects where creativity and initiative are involved as well as a high level of independent judgment.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, evolving environments, shaping clarity and direction in new or undefined problem spaces.
• Strong experience working cross-functionally, managing dependencies, and communicating priorities to ensure roadmap alignment and delivery
• Exceptional analytical, organizational, and prioritization skills with the ability to manage competing initiatives
• Excellent presentation and storytelling skills, with a strong emphasis on communicating to executive-level audiences for rapid alignment and decision-making.
• Work collaboratively as part of a broader product leadership team, prioritizing shared outcomes over individual ownership to ensure overall portfolio success.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with technical and operational stakeholders across CV retail products, including hardware, field operations, support, and customer-facing teams
• Added bonus for experience working within Retail, payments, or POS industries

Note – HIL commissioning experience is required

Virtual HIL Commissioning Engineer

Location: Auburn Hills, MI (Onsite)

Rate: $35/hr.w2 (max)

JD:

The Virtual Test Engineer is responsible for delivering a stable and representative test environment to perform automated testing and functional integration of distributed features. This engineer should be capable of working with various Engineering Support teams including systems, wiring, design release engineers, and software teams as required to validate electrical features on the bench and resolve any electrical issues before it gets to production to support successful vehicle launch. Responsibilities include:

• Identify system boundaries and define requirements for simulator I/O, instrumentation, and automation solutions

• Define test scope and instrumentation strategies

• Model, Simulate powertrain features

• Help with commissioning of features related to transmission, engine and other powertrain module

• Collaborates with core engineers, suppliers, feature experts and test engineers to design, implement and troubleshoot instrumentation as required

• Review component level electrical schematics and functional specifications and translate the requirements into hardware and signal requirements for virtual implementation

• Validate and troubleshoots simulator and maintain test benches

• Troubleshoots vehicle systems and test environment functionality to minimize false positive incident reports

What you need for this position:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical, Computer Engineering or Computer Science

• Relevant automotive experience

• Knowledge of CAN based communication and diagnostic tools – Vector CANalyzer/CANoe

• Proficient with Modeling

• Good knowledge and understanding of DSpace Tools – config desk, automation desk, control desk etc..

• Proficiency in the understanding of embedded controller networks (CAN, LIN)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with development and verification of plant and control models in Matlab/Simulink for execution in hardware in the loop test environments

• Experience with dSpace hardware architecture, design, setup, and troubleshooting

• Bench functional integration, test execution, measuring and instrumentation experience

Reporting to the Director of Operations, this role is responsible for managing individual

projects to include all aspects of planning and execution from the time an order is received

to the time payment is received from the customer. This role will be the direct point of

contact for all project inquiries/updates for their specific projects, both internal and external.

Planning, organizing, coordinating, reporting and ensuring on-time and on-budget

completion of their own projects are essential duties of the Project Manager.

Goals

• Achieve lead time and cost targets for contracts.

• Strive for department deliverables to be right the first time.

• Deliver a service experience that exceeds our customers’ expectations.

Measurements

• Profit & Margin on assigned contracts.

• On Time Delivery to Revenue Projections.

• Quality of Work (Reduction of Errors).

Principle Duties

• Provide direct, day-to-day management of assigned projects and meet regularly with

various team members to ensure projects and essential activities are on track. Deliver

regular reporting to management, direct reports and team members as required.

• Determine priorities consistent with planned capacity, identify resource requirements,

facilitate contract performance reviews, and ensure competencies and performance

metrics are met while providing oversight to assure that schedules are maintained and

achieved.

• Responsible for managing assigned contracts and delivering projects on time, at

budget, ensuring all contract specific requirements are met.

• Develop and maintain monthly and quarterly revenue forecasts.

• Clearly define and communicate the customer’s expectations regarding delivery, quality,

product performance, technical requirements, document submittals, agency approvals,

communications, reporting, witness / hold points, packaging, testing, shipment, and

Role Summary

Job Description and Duties

payment.

• Provides regular status reports to management containing assessments of contract

status relative to cost, delivery, customer submittals, and risk.

• Maintain a clear understanding of the material types and grades being ordered in the

BOM, including the applicable specifications, code requirements, safety class and other

pertinent requirements.

• Maintain control of costs in accordance with the original estimate to ensure achievement

of quoted contribution margin. Managing contribution margin is a key responsibility and

must be communicated to the Director of Operations if a significant change occurs or is

anticipated.

• Develop & manage an individual project schedule to coordinate customer progress

updates, including milestone achievements. Review and provide guidance schedules,

develop, manage and display relevant KPIs for the team’s performance.

• Follow the Operation Procedures per our QA Manual.

• Other related duties as required.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an

employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable

accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential

functions.

• Employee may work near moving mechanical parts.

• Employee will be exposed to shop elements such as noise, dust, fumes and odors.

Minimum Qualifications

• Due to Federal Contract requirements, US Citizenship is required for this position.

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Engineering or Project Management.

• 3-5 years of related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of

education and experience. Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred, but

not required.

• A strong team player with demonstrated leadership skills.

• Ability to successfully lead a diverse team, as well as organize and manage

multiple projects of varying complexity.

• Ability to read & interpret engineering drawings, standards and specifications.

• Ability to utilize available resources effectively to solve problems as they occur.

• Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project and Salesforce CRM.

• Strong interpersonal skills, both written and verbal. Exceptional attention to detail.

• Ability to work with and manage outside vendors.

• A highly motivated self-starter that works well without supervision.

Universal Fire Protection (UFP) and Universal Piping Industries (UPI) are Hiring: Estimators

Location: Troy, MI| Full-Time | Industrial & Commercial Construction

Ready to shape the future of industrial piping systems and fire protection construction? Join our companies, UPI & UFP, as an Estimator and bring precision, innovation, and expertise to projects that power industries and protect communities. If you're passionate about turning blueprints into reality, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of a team that values accuracy and collaboration, we want to hear from you. Apply today and help us build with confidence!

Role Overview:

• The Estimator is responsible for preparing accurate and competitive cost estimates for industrial construction projects. This role is essential in supporting project bids, ensuring profitability, and maintaining the company's reputation for precision and reliability. At UPI, the focus will be on industrial construction piping systems & process building piping. At UFP, the focus will be on industrial and commercial fire protection installations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze project plans, blueprints, and specifications for industrial piping, water, refrigeration, OR fire protection systems to determine project scope and requirements.
• Calculate material, labor, equipment, and subcontractor costs specific to industrial construction, mechanical systems, or fire protection systems.
• Collaborate with project managers, engineers, and field supervisors to clarify project details and resolve technical discrepancies.
• Prepare detailed cost estimates and bid proposals for clients, ensuring compliance with industry standards and client requirements.
• Maintain and update a database of historical cost data for specialized systems (e.g., piping, fire protection).
• Participate in site visits to assess project conditions and gather data for accurate estimation.
• Monitor ongoing projects to compare actual costs with estimates and adjust future estimates accordingly.
• Support the procurement team in sourcing specialized materials and equipment.
• Assist in value engineering and cost-saving initiatives for complex industrial projects.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven experience estimating industrial and commercial construction projects, especially in industrial piping, process building piping, water systems, and refrigeration.
• For UPF, proven experience in fire protection systems blueprint reading, design & estimation.
• Strong analytical and mathematical skills; proficiency with estimation and project management software.
• In-depth knowledge of relevant codes, standards, and best practices in industrial construction and mechanical systems.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and under tight deadlines.
• Assist in value engineering, continuous improvement, and cost-saving initiatives for complex industrial and commercial projects.

Universal Piping Industries (UPI)

• Experience with Computer-Based Pipe Take-off programs (Trimble-Quickpen, QuoteSoft, or others).
• Comfortable with doing Manual Take-off and Cost Recaps.
• Experience with scheduling software is a plus.
• Proven experience with pipe sizing and selection, including pumps, valves
• Experience with chilled water systems, industrial boiler systems, industrial process equipment, and industrial utility systems

Universal Fire Protection (UFP)

• Proven experience in blueprint reading, design, and cost estimation for n fire suppression and alarm systems.
• Expertise in creating fire protection layouts using CAD software.
• Proficiency in AutoSprink
• NICET certification is a plus