About this role
About the Role Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc. (HATCI) is seeking an Adhesives Engineer to join the Total Vehicle Development Team within the Material Development Department. The role focuses on supporting adhesive development for North and South American production vehicles through collaboration with suppliers, engineering design, manufacturing, and plant purchasing teams. What You'll Do
- Validate adhesives, sealers, and waxes for North and South American production sites, through collaboration with the coatings laboratory team, paint suppliers, plant purchasing and manufacturing teams, and the Hyundai R&D center in South Korea.
- Perform adhesive and sealer-related development vehicle quality teardowns and evaluations on site at Hyundai Motor Group production facilities, as well as quality audits of current production adhesives.
- Consult with plant manufacturing locations and associated suppliers to support North and South American manufacturing locations in resolving quality-related issues concerning adhesives, sealers, waxes, etc.
- Analyze adhesive performance, determine root causes for quality concerns, and propose countermeasures to prevent issue recurrence for in-plant and in-field vehicles.
- Support the development of new testing and material specifications, as well as testing methodologies related to adhesives and sealers.
- Investigate new adhesive and sealer technologies.