Don Hoffmann
Product Team / Design Manager at Brose
- Role
- Product Team Manager at Brose Group
- Location
- Detroit, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Don Hoffmann
I am a results driven, quality oriented, Engineering leader that likes to efficiently…
Experience
Product Team Manager
May 2010 — Present · Auburn Hills, MI, US
Responsible to develop and mentor a team of Design Engineers and Designers on multiple programs from cradle to grave for various closure system door modules• Functional and disciplinary supervision of up to 8 engineers (salary, hourly, off-shore)• Build and maintain customer relations with Ford Motor Company, FCA, and Tesla• Coached team in design disciplines including product development process, static analysis, tolerance stack, and problem solving • Maintain global communication and coordination with Germany, India, China, Brazil• Established budgets, workload, and priorities• Emphasized empowerment and ownership of tasks to staffLead Instructor - Technical Product Design (TPD)• Development of the TPD Michigan Advanced Technician Training (MAT2) program• Coach and lead instructors and apprentices with enriched training methods and plans• Achieved first graduates of international design standard (IHK / PAL) exam in USA
Education
Wayne State University
BS, Mechanical Engineering
1993 — 1998
University of Michigan-Dearborn
MS, Engineering Management
2000 — 2003
Skills
- Fmea
- Engineering
- Gd&T
- Cad
- Engineering Management
- Testing
- Program Management
- Automotive
- Manufacturing
- Stamping
- Root Cause Analysis
- Integration
- Apqp
- Ppap
- Dfmea
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