Manage Automotive projects/products through the product life cycle to include: design, develop, cost, quote, on-time launch and post launch modifications.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Design new products and accessories for the OE automotive industry.
• Develop innovative solutions to meet customer requirements.
• Coordinate or supply technical drawings and 3 dimensional models of specialized parts, tooling, and assembly.
• Fabricate prototypes of products in development. Mechanical skills using hand tools & some production machinery.
• Produce technical drawings, assembly drawings, & bill of materials.
• Solve problems with and provide technical advice to the production and quality control departments.
• Assist in sourcing raw materials and components.
• Work with cost accounting to prepare cost packages and customer quotations.
• Coordinate and facilitate the necessary materials testing requirements of development programs
• Compile all existing engineering documentation and organize it into the approved design documentation format.
• Compile customer required documentation and supply it in the appropriate format required per customer.
• Participate in determining “best in class” for design capabilities with an emphasis on rapid prototyping, lean manufacturing, and innovation.
• Proactively manages changes in project scope, identifies potential crises and devises contingency plans.
• Continuously tracks project through development cycle. Utilizes timelines to maintain program milestones and task resource output.
• Develops best practices and tools for project execution and management.
Education:
• Candidate should have a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering or technical degree with equivalent experience.
• Four year degree- Mechanical Engineering preferred
• CAD or technical drawing experience.
• Self-starter. This is not a “typical” engineering position in which candidates are strictly confined to one discipline. This job entails exposure and functions all through the product development lifecycle.
• Creativity: This position is one that entails design and problem-solving skill sets.
• Experience in a production environment. We do not have a “Manufacturing” Engineering staff and the development engineer also has to hand off and coordinate the production of programs.
Thermal Forming and plastic injection molding a plus.
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