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Wheel & Aero Leader (Commercial Vehicles)

Garrett Motion Inc.
BRNO, BRNO MĚSTO, Czech Republic
Hybrid

About this role

Role Purpose

The CV W&A Leader is responsible for end-to-end wheel development and qualification, including design, development, manufacturing APQP, and release. The role ensures aerodynamic performance, mechanical durability, manufacturing feasibility, and cost targets are achieved, while also leading team capability development and supporting future portfolio and technology roadmap needs.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end wheel development and qualification activities
  • Lead pre-development activities aligned with customer STRAP plans
  • Define best technical solutions with GBE Lead Engineers, Powertrain, and W&A SMEs
  • Ensure solutions meet aerodynamic, durability, manufacturing, and cost targets
  • Sign off stage designs and qualification tests as required
  • Represent W&A in Product Assurance design reviews
  • Lead root-cause and corrective-action actions for field and development issues
  • Manage workload, priorities, standardization, and knowledge management across the team
  • Train, mentor, hire, and develop W&A engineers
  • Lead UCP and HPD reviews for the team
  • Maintain team skill balance and support multi-skilling development
  • Build development plans for key talent with the W&A Domain Leader
  • Develop future technical roadmap needs for compressors and turbines
  • Identify portfolio, process, and tool gaps and drive improvement actions
  • Represent W&A in customer meetings and collect voice-of-customer input

Must-Have Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
  • Minimum 8 years of aero/mechanical development experience
  • Strong testing and analytical capability
  • Experience with advanced engineering tools such as CFD, FEA, and Matlab
  • Proven leadership in a fast-paced technology environment
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to work across multiple teams with a continuous-improvement mindset
  • Ability to quickly grasp deep technical issues and connect multiple observations

Preferred Qualifications

  • 10+ years of aero development experience in automotive or industrial turbochargers
  • 5+ years of leadership experience managing a mid-size team (~10 people)
  • Experience leading multi-regional and multicultural teams

About Us

With a legacy of over 70 years, Garrett Motion is a cutting-edge technology leader enabling emission reduction and energy efficiency. We design, manufacture and sell highly engineered turbocharging, air and fluid compression, and high-speed electric motor technologies for customers in the mobility and industrial fields.

About the Team

The Garrett Engineering organization is responsible for developing a differentiated product portfolio of boosting solutions that enables our customers to set new benchmarks in vehicle performance – both for our traditional core turbocharger business as well as new growth areas such as electrification and software.

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