Senior Engineer - Fasteners

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What we offer:

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

As an engineering and manufacturing partner, Magna's Complete Vehicle group helps traditional OEMs and new entrants to bring their automotive visions to life. At Magna, you will work in an innovative, international and dynamic team, always pursuing the goal of delivering high-quality products. We work in a diverse environment with global development opportunities. Together with our employees we constantly strive to create a better world of mobility.

The Senior Engineer - Fasteners leads engineering activities for vehicle body structures, mechanical joints, and fastening and joining systems across complete vehicle programs. The role supports architecture, design, analysis, validation, release, manufacturing readiness, launch, and production issue resolution from prototype through serial production. This position serves as a cross-functional technical lead and specialist, working with OEM customers, design and release engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, contract manufacturers, suppliers, validation teams, and global engineering locations to deliver robust, cost-effective, manufacturable, and reliable solutions.

• Lead development of fasteners, structural connections, and joining applications against performance, cost, weight, quality, and timing targets.
• Develop and review design proposals using set-based engineering, Design for Manufacturing, tolerance stack-up, GD&T, and structured design-quality principles.
• Create, review, and release CAD models, engineering drawings, specifications, CAE studies, and configuration-controlled product data through approved PLM processes.
• Develop new fastening solutions when commercially available components do not meet technical, packaging, durability, corrosion, or manufacturing requirements.

• Select and specify threaded fasteners, rivets, inserts, clips, retainers, adhesives, welded joints, and other joining technologies appropriate to vehicle structures and assemblies.
• Perform or coordinate joint strength, clamp load, torque-tension, material compatibility, durability, corrosion, and reliability assessments.
• Drive fastener commonality, catalog maintenance, standards, and best practices across applicable vehicle and subsystem programs.
• Evaluate alternate components during supply constraints, confirm technical equivalency and compatibility, and support approval, release, and documentation.

• Confirm that product performance, regulatory, manufacturing, cost, and timing targets are understood, achievable, and reflected in engineering plans.
• Support resource planning, budget development, schedule tracking, technical status reporting, and third-party work-package coordination.
• Ensure DFMEA and DVP&R activities address product risks, use cases, verification methods, and project targets; support technical reviews and engineering sign-off.
• Lead benchmarking, knowledge capture, continuous improvement, and complex problem solving with cross-functional teams.

• Collaborate with advanced manufacturing engineering, contract manufacturers, suppliers, and plant teams to confirm production feasibility, assembly sequence, takt-time capability, first-time quality, ergonomics, and launch readiness.
• Provide hands-on support during prototype, validation, pre-production, and production vehicle builds; collect line data and resolve body, joint, fastener, and assembly concerns.
• Lead or support containment, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and implementation using structured methods such as 8D, Ishikawa, and Five Why.
• Partner with quality, deployment, operations, and engineering teams to investigate field issues and improve product robustness.

• Lead technical touchpoints, milestone reviews, and decision-making with OEM customers, internal engineering groups, global locations, suppliers, and external service providers.
• Coordinate with design studio, manufacturing, validation, supply chain, purchasing, and quality to balance appearance, packaging, performance, sourcing, and assembly requirements.
• Escalate risks early, document decisions, and maintain clear engineering communication across multiple active programs.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering,…