Design- Seat Structure-Brose Sitech

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Your tasks

• Works in Seats Structure Design department. Creates/develops/realizes Seat Structure designs in CATIA V5, that dictates the geometric form and describe the control of manufactured products. Active in development of concepts in accordance with customer requirements and Product Workshops. Develops design concepts into qualitative cost effective designs.
• Must be a team player and is ready to work as independent contributor or as part of the team.
• When required represents all design activities during product development, which calls for close co-operation with project engineer and test engineer. Interfaces and seeks agreement on design details, perhaps with customer/suppliers.
• Is eager to learn and aligns personal learning objectives with the growth path of the department and company.
• Independently creates and modifies designs, concepts, assembly drawings, single part drawings, bill of materials for new and series production products in accordance with: Company standards and procedures; Product workshops, inputs from various Project CFTs; Customer specification, GD&T; Use of standard components; Considering maximum carry over of designs and parts; Company production feasibilities and standards; Seats Legal requirements, internal and external norms and standards.
• Perform technical calculations (strength, weight, package), simulations (kinematics, Catia GAS and GPS) and organize complex technical calculations and interpret results.
• Capable of calculating functional dimensions and tolerances in accordance with the results of testing and simulation.
• Detailing of concepts, designs and changes in close coordination with design engineer, test, sample building, production planning and purchasing.
• Realization of principle investigations for product improvement, realization of innovations.
• Active participation in development team meetings, formal design/engineering reviews (various design checklists, DFMEA, FEM meetings, specification review, etc), and  other review meetings with CFTs like Test Engineer and Project Engineer etc.
• Takes ownership and ensures designs being made available in a timely manner to support releases, co-ordinates/negotiates on alternate design completion dates.
• Is open to share his expertise and knowledge within the team and with other CFTs.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree (B. E or B. Tech.) in Mechanical engineering/Automotive engineering.
• Between 8 to 12 years of professional experience in automotive seat structure design.
• CAD design 3D and 2D CATIA V5.
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing.
• Basic design calculations of static and dynamical loads, deformation, pressure, mechanism travel and effort calculation etc.
• Knowledge in automotive seating system.
• Knowledge in sheet metal, plastic design and manufacturing (DFM and DFA).
• Microsoft office tools.
• Good communication and presentation skill.

Brose offers a high-tech work environment and a wide range of benefits. Along with competitive performance-based compensation and health insurance, our employees also benefit from attractive social and family-oriented programs throughout our North American locations*. Our benefits packages include comprehensive medical and insurance. Brose also provides educational assistance and a variety of community outreach, family, and sporting events. Flexible working hours and a collaborative work environment give our employees the freedom to balance work and personal life. Brose believes in investing in people. We offer a wide range of development programs with great opportunity for individual growth through training, international or regional assignments and tailored career paths. Our objective is to provide our employees the tools necessary to live a balanced life, experience a rewarding work environment and contribute to our surrounding communities.

*Benefits package may vary slightly per location