DENSO Europe

Buyer

• Executes purchase contracts for assigned commodities.
• Identifies, researches, and evaluates suppliers that meet the organization's standards of price, quality, timing, and reliability of supply. Recognizes factors driving market price, evaluates and compares current price to market to secure reduced prices.
• Analyzes and evaluates supplier bids, proposals, or quotations; negotiate prices and delivery conditions; and commits to purchases (within established limits of authority) with terms that are in the organization's best interest.
• Interprets inventory targets, production schedules, purchase requisitions, orders, and other documents to coordinate purchasing activities with the organization's current and anticipated demand for goods and materials.
• Conducts ongoing and annual cost reduction analysis. Creates recommendations, presentations and reports out to management.
• Evaluates and provides recommendation to update current processes and procedures in order to ensure maximum efficiency in purchasing efforts.
• Acts as a resource to less experienced personnel.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Commodity Buyer

Accounting Manager

• Computes cost value of raw materials work in process and finished goods for inventory purposes.
• Analyzes actual costs versus standard costs and prepares reports of variances.
• Compiles cost data for preparation of operating budgets.
• Prepares estimates of new or proposed product costs.
• Prepared lower of cost or market calculation, landed cost calculation, margin analysis and other requested calculations.
• Maintains ledgers and financial statements.
• Prepares financial reporting for inventory area, as needed.
• Monitors inventory adjustments.
• Responsible for all inventory/cost related journal entries for month end close.
• Responsible for reconciling all inventory/cost related GL accounts in a timely manner.
• Analyzes PPV (purchase price variance) and IPV (invoice price variance) each month to ensure accuracy of standard costs and PO pricing.
• Works with other departments to improve physical inventory taking, with support from higher level.
• May lead projects or project steps within a broader project or have accountability for ongoing activities or objectives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Inventory Accounting Specialist

Engineer

• Develop, deploy, and maintain product simulation processes, tools, and technologies to support virtual validation, design maturation, manufacturing readiness, and early issue detection.
• Apply simulation-driven engineering methodologies to evaluate product performance, manufacturability, reliability, and system behavior in order to reduce physical testing requirements and minimize late-stage engineering changes.
• Design, develop, and implement digital twin solutions that support product development, manufacturing, and operational improvement initiatives.
• Define, develop, and deploy AR/VR use cases that support engineering, manufacturing, quality, safety, training, collaboration, and operational effectiveness objectives.
• Design and implement immersive technology solutions for virtual design reviews, engineering collaboration, training programs, and operational support activities.
• Integrate simulation, AR/VR, and digital engineering solutions with enterprise systems including PLM, CAD, CAE, and related engineering data platforms to ensure data traceability, revision control, and information reuse.
• Develop automated workflows and digital engineering solutions that improve productivity, efficiency, and standardization across engineering and manufacturing functions.
• Lead proof-of-concept activities, pilot implementations, technology assessments, and vendor evaluations to identify and deploy innovative simulation and immersive technology capabilities.
• Support the transition of successful pilot solutions into scalable, standardized, and sustainable enterprise engineering capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Safety, Logistics, and Information Technology teams to identify business needs and implement effective technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to engineering and manufacturing teams regarding simulation technologies, digital twin applications, and immersive engineering solutions.
• Support governance, standardization, scalability, and continuous improvement of simulation and immersive technology platforms across programs and business units.
• Translate complex technical concepts into business-focused recommendations and measurable outcomes for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Simulation Engineer, Level 3

Account Executive

• Develops, modifies and implements yearly marketing and sales plans for assigned accounts. Provides a yearly forecast for each account and provides to department and product management.
• Completes all assigned projects in a timely manner and within the assigned budget.
• Organizes and monitors the activities of existing customers in order to achieve sales goals. Maintains frequent communication with customers regarding account status, any order or delivery issues, and providing information on new or redesigned products.
• Reviews daily/monthly reports to watch for any downward trends and addresses as needed. Reports out to management on territory activity; including, but not limited to, sales forecasts, sales calls made on existing and potential customers, and future planned activity. Also monitors and reports on competitor activities and overall market conditions.
• Monitors and follows up with management on any customer payment issues and ensures that payments are received according to payment terms.
• Assists customers with the processing of any warranty claims.
• Attends regional trade shows to support customer and product line growth activities. Facilitates customer training sessions as needed.
• Travels to DPAM headquarters and branches for scheduled meetings and training sessions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Field Sales Representative, Eastern Region

Field Engineer

• Establish and support technical standards for warranty improvement activities and root cause identification across service engineering functions.
• Utilize advanced data analysis and visualization techniques to analyze large datasets and identify trends related to warranty performance and field quality concerns.
• Prepare and present technical reports and findings to internal and external customers using advanced vehicle system knowledge.
• Develop technical hypotheses from complex data and engineering information to determine root causes of warranty issues.
• Perform vehicle testing, instrumentation setup, data acquisition, and analysis to evaluate system-level performance and failure modes.
• Develop next-level service strategies and coach team members on implementation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead and support cross-functional investigations involving Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales, Quality, and customer organizations.
• Negotiate and support warranty cost recovery discussions with customers when required.
• Develop new investigative methodologies, analytics models, and diagnostic frameworks when existing processes are insufficient.
• Standardize best practices, technical procedures, and departmental diagnostic strategies to improve efficiency and performance.
• Mentor and train colleagues to strengthen technical capability within the team.

Service Engineer 4

Mechanical Engineer

• Under limited supervision, designs, develops or redesigns new or existing products.
• Reviews customer requirements or specifications to develop and design new components or redesign existing components to improve the organization's products.
• Completes reverse engineering activities as needed.
• Interfaces and negotiates project and engineering related issues with customers, suppliers, sales and manufacturing.
• Acts as a resource for less experienced professionals.
• Utilizes computer-aided engineering tools, CFD and 3D CAD, to design Thermal Products including HVAC, Heat exchangers, Thermal management at component, sub-system and system levels, to create, change and issue component, system and assembly drawings.
• Creates product dimensioning and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Reviews the drawings of lower level engineers and CAD Designers/Drafters.
• Reviews customer’s requirements and specifications for product(s) and identifies issues and changes, where appropriate.
• Converts customer technical requirements to detailed product requirements.
• Conducts design analysis on components and/or assemblies to assist in the development process by ensuring designs are cost efficient, manufacturable, and reliable.
• Selects and tests materials, ingredients or components that will be suitable for the product.
• Develops innovative ways to increase the recycling of materials and decrease the carbon footprint of manufactured products as designed.
• Plans and performs design engineering duties for a major project or completes projects of high complexity.
• Defines the technical approach to assigned projects.
• Communicates with other engineering personnel to coordinate interrelated design and ensure project completion.
• Creates project schedules and specification targets.
• Fabricates or coordinates fabrication initial mockup and initial test samples as needed.
• Creates more complex testing schedules.
• Documents, reviews and approves information obtained from product testing.
• Perfects engineering designs based upon testing results.
• Analyzes the results of customer warranty, manufacturing and validation test failures to redesign current products to improve performance.
• Composes test and technical reports.
• Delivers more complex presentations.
• Analyzes current processes, procedures and systems and makes recommendations for improvement for own job.
• Recommends whether or not proposed changes or improvements be implemented.
• Provides technical leadership to and assists in training less experienced engineers.
• May assign or direct their daily work.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Design Engineer 3

Program Manager

• Overall program owner and decision maker on Finance and Accounting program initiatives and is responsible for providing decisions and direction to program team(s). Ensures deliverables are met and implements corrective actions based on identified risks and issues.
• Promotes and drives financial systems improvements to improve quality and efficiency of financial operations.
• Tracks and meets program profitability, technical and schedule commitments, recognizing potential issues/concerns and corrective actions needed towards meeting program goals. Provides direction and judgement, both technical and programmatic, to other staff and program personnel. Leads projects with considerable resource requirements, risk and/or complexity.
• Interfaces with all departments working on assigned programs, both internal and other group companies, to keep up to date on status of current projects and ensure timely completion.
• Creates and delivers regular program status reports to management and any mitigation/resolution plans for identified risks.
• Collaborating with the program team, provides regular status updates on program goals and objectives to the customer.
• Determines what training may be needed by program staff to ensure success of the program and collaborates with other departments to develop and deliver the required training.
• Actively seeks and recommends potential improvements to processes and/or project tools.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Senior Program Manager

• Performs senior accounting functions including monthly account reconciliations, monitoring certain monthly accruals and preparing journal entries in order to ensure proper reporting financials.
• Maintains and analyzes fixed asset ledger in order to ensure purchases are classified properly and fall within budget.
• Performs and analyzes monthly closing and various daily activities in relation to inventory and cash management.
• Ensures internal controls are operating correctly with the goal of zero deficiencies through JSOX auditing.
• Performs financial analysis and assists in financial reporting activities in order to ensure proper recording of transactions.
• Investigates and analyzes accounting and financial related data in order to reconcile and audit information.
• Performs more complex intercompany account reconciliation.
• Assists with process improvement activities including maintaining and implementing internal controls.
• Acts as a liaison between internal departments and other DENSO locations in order to resolve outstanding issues.
• Performs monthly financial reporting as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.