Senior Automotive Plastics Design Engineer

Tg Missouri Corporation; Troy (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Toyoda Gosei North America, headquartered in Troy, MI, is seeking a Senior Product Engineer for the Interior/Exterior Plastics Engineering group. You will drive product development from concept to SOP, collaborate with customers, and lead design for manufacturability initiatives.

Key responsibilities include preparing APQP documents, performing CAD/CAE analysis, and participating in DFMEA, with a focus on injecting molded plastic components and maintaining documentation for quality systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field; equivalent years of experience accepted.
• 4-8 years engineering experience required.
• Bilingual in English and Japanese required.

Responsibilities

• Create APQP and engineering documents. Support design development from initial concept through SOP. Attend customer build events and root cause issues.
• Negotiate with customers on product design, styling and engineering requirements while ensuring manufacturability and profitability
• Provide design proposals for Automotive Interior/Exterior Plastic parts (Grille/Bumper/Spoiler/IPs/Console/Register) or other components utilizing 2D & 3D design tools.
• Complete benchmarking examinations of competitor’s components and emerging technology.
• Provide technical reports, open items list and presentation package to customers & internal departments
• Improve designs & define new design guidelines to be adopted by the group to improve quality and productivity
• Create and maintain records of product development as required by our quality system
• Work with customers and other internal groups to resolve component functional problems.
• Develop drawings as necessary and participate in Design FMEA, as required.
• Continue to improve the product development process to provide a higher level of service to our customers.
• Demonstrate basic project management expertise.
• Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability and safety
• Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials
• Collaborate with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability
• Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings
• Drive optimization by being actively engaged in continuous improvement efforts (kaizen)
• This role requires the completion of other duties as assigned

Skills

Bilingual English/Japanese

Interior/Exterior plastic design

Moldflow CAE

GD&T

Design for manufacturability

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field

4-8 years engineering experience

Tools

CAD Software

CAE Tools (Moldflow)

Job description

Toyoda Gosei North America, headquartered in Troy, MI, is seeking a Senior Product Engineer for the Interior/Exterior Plastics Engineering group. You will drive product development from concept to SOP, collaborate with customers, and lead design for manufacturability initiatives.

Key responsibilities include preparing APQP documents, performing CAD/CAE analysis, and participating in DFMEA, with a focus on injecting molded plastic components and maintaining documentation for quality systems.