Design Engineer Mechanical Plastics & HVAC

Expleo; Chennai District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Expleo is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join its automotive HVAC design team in India. You will design injection-molded HVAC components using CATIA V5 and support product-structure workflows.

The role requires 4–5 years of experience in automobile HVAC part design, proficiency in GD&T, and DFM/DFA awareness. You will collaborate across engineering disciplines and contribute to proposals and technical documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 4–5 years' experience in automobile HVAC part design.
• Experience with CATIA V5 and CAD quality checks.

Responsibilities

• 3D CAD design for injection-molded HVAC parts using CATIA V5.
• Part design with constrained sketches and boolean operations.
• Work within product structure using multi-skeleton methodology.
• Ensure HVAC designs meet DFM and DFA requirements.
• Prepare technical proposals and presentations.
• Create detailed drawings with GD&T for HVAC parts and assemblies.
• Perform tolerance stack-up analysis.
• Self-check designs to rectify CAD quality and DFM/DFA.
• Vehicle packaging investigations and concept modification.
• Data management in PLM; ensure on-time delivery.

Skills

Autonomy

DFM

DFA

Geometric tolerancing

Tolerance analysis

Education

Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CATIA V5

PLM data management

Job description

Overview

Automobile HVAC design

Responsibilities

• 3D CAD design for plastic Injection molded parts using Catia V5 R24
• Part design using constrained Sketches and Boolean operation with Inner / outer methodology
• Working in Product structure using multi-Skeleton methodology
• Detailed HVAC Part design as per the design standards, following Design for manufacturing(DFM) and design for assembly (DFA) requirements
• Preparation of technical proposal and presentation
• Detailed drawings creation for HVAC parts and assembly with GD&T considering Manufacturingprocess and measurement techniques
• Tolerance stackup analysis
• Self-check designs to rectify CAD quality , DFM and DFA issues
• Vehicle Packaging investigations and concept modification
• Data management in PLM
• Ensure task compilation within budget and on time

Qualifications

Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering

Essential skills

Competence LevelCATIA V5: Part Design, Assembly and Drawing --> AutonomousHVAC product knowledge --> AutonomousManufacturing processes: Injection Molding / Casting --> AutonomousFunctional dimensioning, ISO geometric tolerancing --> AutonomousTolerance stack-up --> AutonomusFunctional Analysis --> Learner

Experience

• 4 to 5 years of experience in designing automobile HVAC parts
• Experience of product functional analysis would be an added advantage