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Or, six or more years of related experience to foundation brake design or testing and/or equivalent combination of education and experience., * To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. * Ability to read, analyzes, and interprets common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. * Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. * Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. * Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors. * Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. * Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis. * Ability to define problems collects 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. ## Description This position is responsible for testing, developing and validating new or improved automotive brake component designs or new applications of existing designs., * Plans, executes and reports on experimental and validation tests on brake products. * Plans and analyzes dimensional measurement of brake components. * Analyzes test results and recommends corrective actions in cases of performance non-compliance. Use the problem solving tools such as Six Sigma, Shainin, etc. when necessary. * Works with design engineer and project manager to ensure the compliance of product with customer's specifications and timing requirements. * Designs and writes test procedures. * Leads technicians in procedures and technical aspects of test and measurement execution * Recommends and implements improvements to test equipment and procedures. * Is approved to perform reference calibration on equipment necessary to their assigned task. * Organizes test samples. Performs minor modifications to test samples when necessary. Ability to assemble brake products from components. * Create fixture drawings using commercial software (Auto-Cad, Solid Works). 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