Senior R&D Resident Engineer & Front office

Valeo; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo is looking for a Front Office / Resident R&D Engineer in Chennai to manage customer relationships during R&D projects and support RFQ activities. The role requires coordinating between customer teams and Valeo, ensuring clear communication of requirements, and guiding technical discussions with the customer across various test and validation stages.

The position involves collaboration with RFQ teams, participation in technical and commercial offers, and on-site customer interactions to

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships between Technical Customer Teams and Valeo in R&D projects.
• Alert potential issues in technical relationships with the customer.
• Support acquisition projects: RFI / RFQ.
• Deliver accurate customer information to Valeo project teams.
• Pre-evaluate customer technical requests and translate requirements for teams.
• Participate in creation and presentation of technical & commercial offers with RFQ teams.
• Coordinate R&D team during night drive test prep and vehicle testing with customer.
• Assist warranty analysis by collecting relevant information.
• Coordinate parts logistics for customer interactions.

Job description

The Front Office / Resident R&D Engineer

• Creates and manages relationships between Technical Customer Teams and Valeo in the field of R&D projects, in order to increase intimacy with the customer: Business and Development
• Responsible of alerting in case of potential issues in technical relationship between Valeo and Customer
• To support acquisition projects: RFI / RFQ
• Responsible to deliver accurate and direct information from customer sources (technological road map, customer benchmark) to support business development before receiving RFQ
• Analyses and makes pre-evaluation of customer technical requests and translates/ensures perfect understanding of requirements by VALEO Project Teams.
• Participation in the creation and presentation of technical & commercial offers in coordination with RFQ Teams of the DC’s
• Ensure the correct understanding of the customer expectations. To get approval from customer about Valeo technical concept during RFQ phase: negotiate to get technical green light
• To support projects development: P1 SOP and after
• Technical interface (bi-directionnal) between Customer Technical Teams and Valeo R&D PTM, including on site meetings, as a list of open points, customer compliance matrix approval, drawings, specifications, specific customer documentation, customer standards, manuals, translations, etc.
• Responsible to identify technical customer changes and supports to get a technical agreement from customer on Engineering Change Requests (ECRs)
• Supports information data exchange between customer and Valeo, with right usage of specific customer tools
• Supports and manages necessary approvals from the customer (drawings, software deliveries or its deviations)
• Coordinates R&D Team during the night drive test preparation (or other R&D technical validation activities) and participation to System and Vehicle testing with Customer
• Participate to validation activities at vehicle level with customer and ensure that the results are shared with P1 team
• For 0 km and Warranty Responsible for first level of technical analysis and collecting relevant information in order to facilitate the warranty analysis by Development Center
• Collect parts / bring parts from / to customer (flashing actions, prototypes sorting, support of returned parts analysis after durability tests at customer, etc…)
• Manages local tech shows and events for PG communication and marketing teams
• Applies the Valeo’s procedures and environmental, safety and security good practices