Tire Design Engineer

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Toyo Tires is a leading international tire manufacturing company with over 75 years of experience, global sales, and distribution footprint in more than 100 countries and regions. We pride ourselves in innovation, quality, performance, and service, with a passion for developing great products and innovative solutions to meet the needs of our customers. We recently opened a state-of-the-art manufacturing company in Serbia. At Toyo Tires, we value our people and seek dynamic individuals whose talent, creativity, drive, and good corporate citizenship lead to personal and company success. Come check out our exciting career opportunities at our new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in White, Georgia.

Toyo Tires is seeking a Tire Design Engineer who has a good understanding of the entire tire manufacturing process, tire construction, tire testing, and overall tire performance in relation to target applications; introduce new tire lines into the plant using the corporate specification as a guideline; maintain existing plant specifications to ensure anomaly free production; support plant production departments when needed; and apply engineering principles to resolve tire production issues, improve production processes, ensure proper tire performance levels and improve overall tire performance.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create and issue experimental tire building specifications or check experimental tire building specifications issued by another Tire Design Engineer.
• Conduct controlled experimental tire builds, verifying component accuracy and placement, confirm cured tire appearance meet required standards and coordinate confirmation testing.
• Perform cured tire analysis of experimental tire sections to ensure dimensional accuracy.
• Understand tire testing methods and each individual tire test and its parameters.
• Analyze test tire sections and understand test tire failure modes and how each failure mode correlates to real world conditions.
• Create and issue initial production tire building specifications or check initial production tire building specifications issued by another Tire Design Engineer.
• Verify initial production component accuracy and placement; confirm cured tire appearance meet required standards and coordinate confirmation testing.
• Review factory processing of the initial production tires (green scrap, cured scrap, cured anomalies, and uniformity levels).
• Perform cured tire analysis of initial production tire sections to ensure dimensional accuracy.
• Analyze test tire sections and understand test tire failure modes and how each failure mode correlates to real world conditions.
• Create and issue mass production tire building specifications or check mass production tire building specifications issued by another Tire Design Engineer.
• Create and maintain project schedules with the goal of meeting or exceeding project schedules.
• Coordinate experimental and initial production tire builds.
• Coordinate experimental and initial production testing.
• Perform competitor tire analysis using Smithers Scientific Data and / or through tire section analysis.
• Work with Material Design Engineers to introduce new materials and / or material suppliers for existing materials to the plant through material evaluation programs.
• Write and issue reports and procedures when necessary.
• Effectively present information in meetings to peers and management when necessary.
• Effectively communicate orally or in writing when necessary.
• Maintain existing specifications and support plant production departments when necessary.

Engineering degree from an accredited four-year college or university preferably in Mechanical and one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

BENEFITS

Health, Dental, Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid time off.

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability insurance

Hospital Indemnity

Critical Illness Insurance

Accident Insurance

HAS and FSA

Matching 401(K)

Pet Insurance

Childcare Benefits (TOOTRiS)

TOYO TIRE NORTH AMERICA MANUFACTURING INC. IS AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

• Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

• Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
• Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks
• Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization