Technical Engineering Supervisor (MFD)

Reliably delivering whats needed today

There are few challenges as important today as creating solutions that support a cleaner more energy-efficient world. This requires a commitment to constantly improve the transportation of people and things. We at BorgWarner made that commitment decades ago and have since been creating technologies to improve efficiency emissions and performance in all types of vehicles.

Constantly pursuing whats next

Our proven track record has made us industry leader in clean energy-efficient propulsion system solutions for combustion hybrid and electric vehicles. We uncover strong trends and use smart science and technology to address a future based on varying regulations consumer demands and automaker requirements.

Product leadership thats changing the world

Our employees have earned trusted partnerships with customers and suppliers around the world. We leverage these relationships to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges at hand and then do what it takes to develop the next solution. Our strong operations and commercialization expertise result in high volume availability of competitive efficient products that truly drive change.

BorgWarner PowerDrive Systems is currently looking for dynamic results driven individual to join as Technical Engineering Supervisor at our production plant in Viana Portugal.

Key Responsibilities

Functional Leadership & Team Development

• Provides direct functional leadership to VAVE Engineer(s) FMEA Coordinator(s) Digitalization Engineer(s) and Product Cybersecurity & Safety activities.
• Ensures clear objectives priorities and interfaces across all supervised functions.
• Coaches and develops team members reinforcing technical excellence accountability and structured execution.

Value Creation & Competitiveness

• Owns the VA/VE roadmap and ensures alignment of value initiatives with plant product and business objectives.
• Reviews and challenges business cases technical assumptions and implementation strategies for value initiatives.
• Ensures sustainability of delivered value beyond SOP through governance and performance tracking.

Risk Prevention & Robustness Governance

• Ensures consistent and effective execution of DFMEA PFMEA Reverse FMEA and Equipment FMEA activities.
• Acts as escalation point for highrisk items related to design process equipment or system weaknesses.
• Drives alignment between FMEA outputs Control Plans maintenance strategies and operational practices.

Digital & System Enablement

• Oversees industrial digitalization initiatives that support data availability decisionmaking and process robustness.
• Ensures coherence between digital tools manufacturing needs quality systems and cybersecurity requirements.
• Promotes datadriven problem solving and process monitoring.

Cybersecurity & Safety Alignment

• Provides oversight on product cybersecurity and functional safety activities within the plant.
• Ensures compliance with applicable standards and integration into launch and SOP processes.
• Acts as interface to global cybersecurity and safety organizations.

Requirements & Competencies

Education & Experience

• Engineering degree in Mechanical Electronics Mechatronics or similar discipline (Masters preferred).
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the automotive industry in engineering industrialization or technical leadership roles.
• Proven exposure to product development manufacturing environments and launch/SOP activities.

Technical Profile

• Strong understanding of value engineering cost structures and industrial constraints.
• Solid knowledge of FMEA methodologies (AIAG/VDA) and riskbased thinking.
• Good exposure to digitalization data usage and industrial systems is an advantage.
• Broad technical credibility enabling interaction with multiple engineering disciplines.

Leadership & Behavioral Skills

• Recognized technical authority with the ability to influence without hierarchical power.
• Structured thinker capable of managing complexity and competing priorities.
• Strong communication skills across technical managerial and operational levels.
• Resultsoriented with a pragmatic and factbased decisionmaking style.

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