Automotive Design Lead - Aesthetic Plastics (Hybrid, Barcelona)

BCNC GROUP; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work: 2 days a week home office

Permanent contract

Compétitive salary package

Career development and training

Job summary

BCNC GROUP, based in Barcelona, seeks an Automotive Design Lead to drive design of automotive components and manage CAD data flow with internal teams and Tier 2 suppliers. The role emphasizes styling, tool feasibility, and adherence to customer specifications.

Responsibilities include coordinating with EPM and Tooling Engineers, validating CAD outputs, and updating 3D/2D data throughout the project lifecycle. Hybrid work arrangement and permanent contract offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, industrial design or related field.
• 4+ years of experience in automotive component design.
• Expert in aesthetical plastic parts.
• Strong experience with Catia V5 and DFMEA.
• Experience in project management and coordination with internal teams and customers.
• Experience with materials such as ABS, PC, PMMA/ABS.
• Good level of English.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer technical specifications necessary for the design (product performance and safety, gap and flushness, quality, assembly sequence, surrounding parts, …).
• Looks for solutions and suggests technical proposals to EPM for project decision, respecting existing documents.
• Realizes and pilots the design of parts and products: analyses the feasibility (styling surface, parting lines, aspect, injection, demoulding, painting, assembly, packaging, perceived quality, recycling …) with regards to functional specifications from customer.
• Manages the daily technical flow of information with CAD office and the Tier 2 suppliers according to the tier1 standard.
• Checks and validates the quality of the CAD files received from customer, suppliers and design offices.
• Ensures the regular update of the 3D data, 2D drawing and parts’ attributes within the tier1 CAD file database.
• Builds the geometry file with stack-ups and tolerances, ensures the validation by the Geometry Engineer. Update this folder during the project life.
• Liaises with the toolmaker together with the Injection & Tooling Engineer to optimize the design of parts according to tool feasibility.
• Before the tool kick-off, defines and formalizes with EPM and the Injection & Tool Engineer the tuning zone areas to be taken into account for the tools realization.
• Follows the realization of 2D/3D drawings of the internal parts and assembly regarding to the project requirements. Validates technically these drawings before submission to the project for validation before provided to customer.

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, or a related field

Tools

Catia V5

DFMEA

Job description

BCNC GROUP, based in Barcelona, seeks an Automotive Design Lead to drive design of automotive components and manage CAD data flow with internal teams and Tier 2 suppliers. The role emphasizes styling, tool feasibility, and adherence to customer specifications.

Responsibilities include coordinating with EPM and Tooling Engineers, validating CAD outputs, and updating 3D/2D data throughout the project lifecycle. Hybrid work arrangement and permanent contract offered.