When you join the Sandalwood team, you’ll join an engaging and inclusive group with a mission to help our customers identify, assess, and reduce work-related risks to quality, productivity, and employee health.

In your day to day activities, you’ll work with multiple customers, as a consultant and trusted partner in Sandalwood’s areas of expertise of Injury Prevention, Systems Engineering & Systems Integration. You’ll help customers innovate, solve their current struggles and guide them with the power of Sandalwood’s deeply ingrained subject matter expertise.

You will have opportunities to help lead your own individual development with programs designed to guide you. Feeling you haven’t been recognized lately? You will have the chance to consistently appreciate your coworkers and be appreciated by your coworkers for continued distinction using our peer to peer appreciation and feedback software.

You will be encouraged to participate in Sandalwood’s multitude of extra-curricular activities including:

• An innovative health, safety and wellness program

• An internal innovation forum to guide and develop innovation initiatives

• The all-team meeting and staff day planning committee, dedicated to fostering team dynamics, collaboration and cross-functional interactions

• Participating in on-campus and virtual recruiting

• The social committee plans various get-togethers for the team outside of work

• Our cross-line of business marketing committee assists with marketing planning, ideas and collaboration

• The mentorship program provides a forum for mentors/mentees to connect and provide feedback, make connections and offer encouragement

• Community involvement opportunities driven by our team’s background, our companies’ core values and community need

Sandalwood’s people are it’s greatest and most treasured asset. Learn more about our focus on our people on our YouTube Channel, Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfdMoOzgAZA&ab_channel=SandalwoodEngineering%26Ergonomics)

We're currently looking for an Engineering IT Liaison to join our growing team of engineering and ergonomics professionals in the South East Michigan area. Details about the role are as follows:

This position will act as a liaison between the Powertrain Systems Engineering department and the Information Technology group to coordinate activities for key initiatives. Responsibilities include:

• IT SPOC: Establish a productive working relationship and act as single-point-of-contact to streamline communication with the IT group. Document, prioritize, and manage implementation of initiatives affecting Systems Engineering. Coordinate regular reviews of new, open, and closed topics with Engineering and IT leaderships, as well as continuous improvement and cost reduction opportunities that could be further pursued with enhanced IT/Engineering support.

• Data Governance: The department has large amounts of technical data and business information stored on share drives. The goal is to create information classes based on data attributes (usage, type, size, sensitivity, etc.) to determine appropriate storage strategy. In parallel, evaluate existing company file sharing tools (MS Teams, One Drive, SharePoint, shared drives, social intranet), make recommendations, and establish best use practices.

• SharePoint Restoration: The department has multiple legacy SharePoint sites that are migrating to SharePoint Online. The goal is to update the sites with improvements including, but not limited to, reflecting current organizational structure and projects, and eliminating obsolete links. Additionally, the updated sites should leverage local and global partner SharePoint sites of collaborating departments to minimize redundancy.

• Digital Communications: Continue support of Detroit Powertrain Engineering social intranet site, developed in coordination with department managers to facilitate a push information exchange to the department. Activities include site development / enhancement, population of site content (as needed), and procedures for regular updates of department level news and information by the content owners.

Successful candidates will have the following attributes:

• Strong technical / computer skills, including:

• Highly proficient using Microsoft Office / MS Office 365

• SharePoint / MS Teams site development and configuration

• Understanding of relational database structures and standards

• Web page development and configuration

• Experience with low-coding tools (e.g. JavaScript, Python)

• Ability to obtain and report business and technical requirements

• Demonstrated ability to formulate solutions, develop a comprehensive plan of action, and obtain buy-in from stakeholders at various management levels, across multiple teams and disciplines

• Experience planning and executing projects using both agile and waterfall methodologies

• A professional manner with excellent organizational and communication skills

• Self-starter with a detail-oriented team player approach

• Ability to establish priorities, working both independently and in team settings

• Experience with automotive product development, major vehicle and powertrain components and electronic control modules, and commercial vehicles

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

Candidates for positions with Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 - 3 years experience with engineering information systems in a corporate environment

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or associated discipline

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orienation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-248-848-9500.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

• HSA and FSA Accounts with employer contribution

• Retirement Plan (401k) 50% Company Match of the First 6% of Employee Contribution

• Profit Sharing

• Short Term & Long Term Disability Premiums 100% Company Paid

• Employee and Dependent Life Insurance and AD&D Premiums 100% Company Paid

• Paid Time Off

• Company Paid Holidays

• Training & Development (Tuition Reimbursement and Certifications)

• Additional Voluntary Benefits