Design Engineer - Complete Seat Plastics

Brose Group; Pune District; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Brose Group in Pune, India invites applicants for a permanent role in seat plastics design. You will design and develop complete seat plastics, create CAD concepts, and realise designs to meet customer and internal requirements.

The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor's in Mechanical or Automotive engineering, has 4–8 years of automotive seat plastics design experience, and is proficient in CATIA V5. Strong GD&T and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Automotive engineering.
• 4–8 years of automotive seat plastics design experience.
• CAD design using CATIA V5 (3D/2D).
• Knowledge of GD&T procedures.
• Experience with seat structures is an advantage.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of complete seat plastics.
• Creates/ develops/ realises CAD concepts per customer/internal requirements.
• Represents design activities during product development with close cooperation.
• Design and construction from pre-development to series production with deadline tracking.
• Package and kinematic study with surrounding seat components in CATIA V5.
• Design of 3D kinematics and envelope curves; define reference systems.
• Develop and coordinate design concepts; implement new technologies.
• Prepare design documents for approvals; ensure design development steps.

Skills

Seat plastics design

4–8 years experience

Good communication

Education

Bachelor's degree - Mechanical/Automotive Engineering

Tools

CATIA V5

GD&T

Microsoft Office

Job description

Change perspective. Shape the future.

Brose invests in new technologies and business areas for a successful future. Let´s shape our future together. Are you ready for a career change?

Your tasks

• Design and development of complete seat plastics.
• Creates/develops/realizes designs in CAD. Active in development of concepts in accordance with customer or internal requirements. Develops design concepts into qualitative cost effective designs. Is ready to work as independent contributor or works in a smaller team within the seats design team with a senior engineer.
• Represents all design activities during product development, which calls for close co-operation with team engineer and test engineer. Interfaces and seeks agreement on design details, perhaps with customer/suppliers.
• Design and construction from pre-development to series production and deadline tracking for seat plastics.
• Package and kinematic study with surrounding seat component parts (e.g. plastic parts, foam, safety components, airbags, seat belt reminder, belt buckles, Headrest, electronic components, seat heating, climate system, wire harness, sensorics, control units and pneumatic elements) and with the vehicle environment in Catia V5.
• Design of 3D kinematics, production of envelope curves, application of further kinematic functions
• Design and dimensioning of component connections, definition of reference point systems
• Development, representation and coordination of design concepts as well as implementation of new technologies
• Controlling and ensuring of necessary design development steps
• Preparing of design documents for approvals
• Independent creation of designs, assembly drawings, single part drawings, bill of materials for new and serial production products in accordance with:
• Brose standards and proceedures,
• product workshop assumptions/goals,
• customer specification, GD&T
• use of standard components,
• reuse of designs and parts,
• Brose production feasibilities and standards,legal requirements, internal and external norms and standards,
• external Know How (suppliers) and internal Know How.
• Capable of calculating functional dimensions and tolerances in accordance with the results of testing and simulation.

Your Profile

• Bachelors 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 4 to 8 years of professional experience in automotive seat plastics design after university graduation in engineering degree.
• Must have knowledge and experience in automotive seat plastics design.
• Knowledge and experience of working in Automotive Complete Seat Design
• CAD designing using CATIA V5 3D and 2D.
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
• Basic knowledge of design calculations of static and dynamical loads,deformation,pressure,mechanism travel and effort calculation etc.,
• Knowledge in working on Seats Structure will be an added advantage
• Microsoft office tools
• Good communication and presentation skill

Are you ready to take the next step in your career, and take on new tasks? If you have any questions, your HR contact person is happy to answer them.

• Department: IN/BS
• Location: Pune
• Job Start Date: 03/18/2026
• Job Type: Permanent
• Temporary: Full-time