Senior Design Engineer-Seat Structure_7-10 Yrs

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

• Independently execute engineering assignment as a part of design/project team for various projects assigned, following & applying standard set by Brose & OEMs under the guidance of Project engineer.
• Create feasible design concepts which are qualitative & cost effective in nature.
• Represents all design activities during product development, which calls for close co-operation with PE, TE and development CFT’s. Interfaces and seeks agreement on design details, perhaps with customer/suppliers.
• Anticipate the potential issues regarding assembly, tooling, design flaws, etc. & intimate PE.
• Independent creation of designs in Catia CAD, Drawings (Assembly Component), BOM during development and in some cases at series production. Design concept should be in accordance with: Brose standards and procedures, product workshop assumptions, Lessons learnt/goals, Customer specification, use of standard components,Carry over designs and parts, Brose production feasibilities and standards, legal requirements, internal and external norms and standards, Internal & external Know How/Lessons learnt (Customer & Supplier).
• Perform technical calculations (strength, weight, package), simulations (kinematics, FEM Catia GAS GPS) and apply it in design concept.
• Independent calculation of functional dimensions and tolerances in accordance with the results of DV/PV test and simulation.
• Arrange detail design review’s with Design lead, specialist, PE& TE during every project milestone.
• Realization of principle investigations for product improvement, realization of innovations.
• Active participation in development team Meetings (EAK), in formal design/engineering reviews (A- D Checklist, DFMEA, FEM meetings, specification review, etc.), and  informal reviews with Test Engineer and Team Engineer.
• Ensures designs being made available in a timely manner to support releases (e.g. -100 release), co-ordinates/negotiates with valid reason’s on alternate design completion dates.
• Expertise in Sheet metal & Plastic design.
• Support Benchmarking of products, create lessons learnt & take active involvement in Problem solving.
• Also assign the work & mentor the design Engineers & train him to considers all valid procedures, job instructions and organizational instructions.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree (B. E or B. Tech.) in Mechanical engineering/Automotive engineering is preferred in the automotive field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Between 7 to 10 years professional experience in automobile related industries preferred in automotive seat mechanism after university graduation in engineering degree.
• 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 skills.

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