Design Engineer - Door Trim - (1335)

Lead the design, development, and release of automotive seating, interior trim and/or powersport seating products. Work directly with customers, suppliers, and internal multi-functional team to design innovative and valuable products which meet or exceed all requirements and regulations. Support research, business objectives, and problem solving for continuous improvement.

Qualifications/Essential Skills and Experience:

• Minimum B.S. in Engineering or equivalent (Mechanical, Product Development, etc)
• Typically, 6+ years' experience with automotive seating or interior trim product design
• Typically, 3+ years' experience project lead or management
• Knowledge of safety regulations/standards test setup pertaining to automotive seating and interior products (FMVSS, ECE, DIN, IIHS, etc) .
• Familiar/efficient with parametric modeling and drafting/annotation in CAD (CATIA V5 preferred)
• Familiar with performing FEA simulations and interpretation of results
• Experience with product design for manufacturing (DFM)
• Experience with project/team schedules (experience with MS Projects is a plus)
• Proficient on MS PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to travel locally (driving), domestic and/or internationally (air) without restriction (typically less than 10%)

• Communication
  • Oversees and directly supports technical reports and presentations (Reports, CAD design, Schedules, Continuous Improvement Ideas)
  • Collaborates among different groups to achieve overall company goals
  • Communicates with customer and supplier to maintain relationships, expectations, and negotiations (Outside Stakeholders)
  • Actively participates and engages in sectional, departmental, project, and customer meetings
• Planning
  • Creates and maintains a schedule(s) to proactively manage areas of responsibility and resources. (Schedule, annual goals, budget, etc)
  • Ability to lead design engineers and technicians to ensure schedules and CAD models/drawings are accurate and stay on track while meeting all standard procedures and conforming to ISO policies
• Technical Know-How
  • Understands and locates applicable information (DWG, SPEC, Regulations)
  • Understands the process and purpose of analyzing, solving and communicating problems and solutions
  • Demonstrates overall engineering aptitude (engineering fundamentals)
  • Has high knowledge base of most aspects of TS Tech products and requirements
  • Effectively demonstrates moderate degree of mechanical aptitude
• Innovation
  • Support department innovation through benchmarking, proof of concept, research activities and development proposals (products and business process)

Specific Job Requirements

• Product Design
  • Understand and break down product requirements to generate and develop optimized concepts for quality, performance, weight, and cost
  • Interface directly with customers to fully understand all technical requirements and deliverables. Support informing the multi-functional team
  • Applies best practices in creating and maintaining product 3D CAD layouts, models, and 2D drawings
  • Checks bill of materials (BOM) and design change documentation for responsible projects
  • Supports design analysis and prediction by kinematics, hand calculations, FEA, multibody dynamics, and statistical variation analysis tools
  • Lead and/or support multi-functional team with Design Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (DFMEA), Design Review Based on Failure Modes (DRBFM) and/or Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) documentation
  • Work with suppliers and manufacturing teams to ensure production feasibility
  • Organizes and supports design in technical reviews with dynamic CAD reviews and reports
  • Monitor the development of all design related issues, tasks, and assignments to insure timely completion
  • Investigate root cause analysis and countermeasure implementation
  • Support internal evaluations with technical documentation, validation results, and presentation as needed
• Continuous Improvement
  • Seek out the development and proposal of reoccurrence prevention methods
  • Seek out, understand and communicate new or revised regulations and requirements
  • Seek out value added investigations (part, product, process, design improvements)
  • Initiates/supports in the development of new tools, standards, and procedures

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Environmental conditions - Open office environment. May be exposed to moderate noise levels.
• Vocal Communication - Required to express or exchange ideas by means of concise (clear, correct and timely) discussion with coworkers, customers, suppliers, etc.
• Hearing Perception - Ability to recognize information at normal spoken levels and/or ability to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or make fine distinctions in sound.
• Sensory Utilization - Prepare and analyze written or computer data.
• Physical Activities - Required to stand, walk and sit, as well as using hands to pick up, handle or feel objects. May occasionally reach with hands and arms. May be required to lift up to 50 lbs. unassisted.
• Visual Acuity - There are no special vision requirements.