Product Engineer

CIE USA - Century Plastics LLC; Shelby Township (MI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CIE USA-Century Plastics, a division of CIE Automotive, seeks a Product Engineer to drive development of interior and exterior trim from concept to launch. You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure design feasibility for manufacturing and alignment with customer requirements.

The role emphasizes CAD/CAM using CATIA or NX, strong GD&T knowledge, and collaboration with engineering, tooling, and quality to meet milestones and specifications.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering or related automotive technology.
• 5+ years of automotive experience with plastics.
• Proficient CAD review, with CATIA or NX experience.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Knowledge of GD&T and tolerance stack-ups.

Responsibilities

• Develop interior and exterior trim components from concept through launch.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure manufacturability and cost targets.
• Provide technical support in customer meetings and with program management.
• Create and maintain engineering BOMs and release drawings/models.
• Verify tolerances, GD&T, and dimensional accuracy with design and manufacturing teams.

Skills

Automotive plastics

CAD proficiency

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related automotive technology

Tools

CATIA

NX

Job description

CIE Automotive is a supplier of components and sub-assemblies for the global automotive market, basing its actions on the use of complementary technologies and various associated processes. CIE Automotive offers multi-services and solutions that seek to maximize the efficiency of production processes through innovation. In both projects we are growing sustainably and profitably to position ourselves as the benchmark partner by satisfying our customers with comprehensive, innovative, and competitive solutions with high added value.

CIE USA-Century Plastics, a division of the global enterprise CIE Automotive, is seeking a talented Product Engineer to join our team.

Reports to: Product Engineering Team Lead / Director of Engineering

Primary Purpose:

The Product Engineer is responsible for the development of interior and exterior trim components from the initial concept through launch. This position also works with cross-functional teams, both internally and externally, to ensure a feasible design for manufacturing which meets all customer requirements.

Essential Functions:

• Provide technical support in meetings with customers
• Provide Customer & Program Management with all development required information.
• Responsible for working with CIE manufacturing and tooling, as needed.
• Directs and provides lineups to designers with daily requirements
• Track and ensure design completion on time to meet milestones
• Responsible for working directly with the customer engineering team
• Verify design feasibility for manufacturing
• Verify designs meet customer requirements and standards
• Responsible for working with dimensional engineers to develop part tolerances and GD&T requirements
• Verify and ensure accuracy of release of drawings and models
• Ensure design meets all vehicle environment requirement (package)
• Create an Engineering Bill of Materials and maintain for all products for the life of the program
• Create a part exploded views and maintain for all products with multiple parts for the life of program
• Maintain engineering open issues list related to product design only
• Responsible for initiating the change request process and notifying PM Engineering is responsible for the creation and development of DFMEAs
• Support Quality team to create process flow, PFMEA, Control Plan as needed
• Support OEM assembly builds as required
• Resolve engineering issues, create was/is document, track engineering changes, and verify changes were implemented correctly
• Support and evaluate tool tryouts for part accuracy
• Product Engineer is responsible for the concept design and execution of all products to be manufactured and/or assembled within CIE
• Prototype Phases/Tools /Builds:
• Assist build team with part manufacturing
• Help develop work instructions for initial builds and reworks (work with quality and / or instruct quality)
• Support customer shipment meetings
• Ensure tooling engineers have the correct product information / data.
• Evaluate part dimensions and create correction action plan. Continue multiple times until dimensions are bought off
• Work with dimensional engineer to understand problem areas
• Develop DVP&R test plan requirements per part
• Procure parts and deliver to test source
• Fit and Functional evaluations and create plan for corrections. Continue multiple times until all is corrected.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or Related Automotive Technology (BSME preferred, but not required)
• 5+ years of experience in automotive with plastics background
• Capable of utilizing CAD Software to review designs (sections, measuring, draft analysis, etc.). Catia or NX experience is specifically requested
• Strong organizational skills including open issues tracking, part tracking, etc.
• Effective communicator (both verbally and writing)
• Strong background with vehicle system level design and packaging
• Good communication and organizational skills.
• Proficient at Word, Excel, and Power Point
• Ability to manage and track multiple programs
• In-depth knowledge of plastics and tooling feasibility design requirements
• Strong background with vehicle system level design and packaging
• General knowledge of general GD&T and tolerance stack-ups

Physical Requirements:

• Able to lift 30 lbs. occasionally (part, boxes, etc.)
• Must be able to stand for long periods of time in a manufacturing environment
• Must be able to travel within manufacturing environments (internally and externally)
• Must be able to travel domestically and internationally with passport (primarily within United States, but also including Canada, Mexico and Europe)