Ride Engineer

Date: Apr 15, 2025

Location: Hosur, IN

Company: Tenneco

*Key Responsibilities

•    Performing Damper tuning for all body on frame and monocoque vehicles in Ride and Handling track and optimize the valve settings with compliance of valve calculation tool and design rule.
•    Evaluating subjective and objective R&H parameters for benchmark and project vehicles and prepare reports.
•    Maintain standard design rules for shock/strut dimensioning, tolerances, characteristics, and valving... (on application level/ noncore component)
•    Act as expert in vehicle Dynamics
•    Bush Tuning for optimized Ride and Handling in selected test tracks.
•    Supports Technical Project Leaders/Application engineering team.
Note: Technical project leader can perform calculation, gets advice from competence center
•    Maintain skills in valving towards vehicle performance on ride work.
•    Maintain skills in vehicle dynamics & damper influence in R&H.
•    Freeze the valve code within the design rule and customer satisfactory based on R&H
•    Support TPL by providing ride work report.
•    Maintain ride bus./Equipment's/Tools/Machines etc.
•    Continues support to customer requirements in R&H.
•    Flexibility on travel (within India) must require.
•    Based on need and necessity abroad travel would require. 
•    Co-ordinate customer specification change request
•    Test Track Knowledge:
•    Different ride tracks & their influence on R&H
•    Selecting ride tracks according to application
•    Support TPL if any damping force not matching with sealed damper
•    Support TPL for ride kit preparation
•    Get knowledge from Global team on new valve technology and provide demonstration to OEM and prove our technology with respect to R&H.
•    Support post ride work activities like R&H confirmation on sealed dampers if any
•    Drive multiple projects Ride work requirement.
•    Involve and paly role in Problem Solving and failure mode analysis.
•    Support Warranty concern from OEM or end customer.