Senior Product Engineer

Toyoda Gosei Americas; Plymouth (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Toyoda Gosei Group, a leading supplier of automotive components, has an opening in Troy, MI for a Senior Product Engineer in Technical Safety Systems Engineering. You will drive product development from concept to SOP for safety systems, collaborating with TGNA and AMCs.

Responsibilities include APQP documentation, customer design negotiations, and design proposals using CAD tools. The role demands 4–8 years of engineering experience and strong knowledge of design release and quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field is required.
• 4–8 years of engineering experience is required.
• Strong understanding of APQP, design release activities, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience with Safety System commodities is required.
• Familiarity with automotive standards and customer portals is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Create APQP and engineering documents; support design development from concept through SOP.
• Negotiate with customers on design requirements ensuring manufacturability and profitability.
• Provide design proposals for airbag or steering wheel components using 2D/3D CAD tools.
• Perform benchmarking of competitors and emerging technologies.
• Provide technical reports and presentations to customers and internal teams.
• Improve designs; define new design guidelines for quality and productivity.
• Develop drawings, participate in Design FMEA, and ensure alignment with quality systems.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, suppliers, and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.

Skills

APQP processes

CAD 2D/3D

Root cause analysis

Project management

Engineering documentation

FMEA

Customer communication

Manufacturability & profitability

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

CATIA V5

NX/UG

Microsoft Office

Job description

Summary

The Toyoda Gosei Group is a leading global manufacturer of rubber and plastic automotive components, safety systems and LEDs. Globally Headquartered in Japan with a network of 67 group companies in 17 countries and regions, the Group brings its extensive range of products to customers all over the world.

Summary

The Toyoda Gosei Group is a leading global manufacturer of rubber and plastic automotive components, safety systems and LEDs. Globally Headquartered in Japan with a network of 67 group companies in 17 countries and regions, the Group brings its extensive range of products to customers all over the world.

Toyoda Gosei North America (headquartered in Troy, MI) has an opening for a Senior Product Engineer in Technical Safety Systems Engineering department. The Senior Product Engineer is responsible for product development from initial concept through start of production (SOP) for the Safety Systems Engineering group across Toyoda Gosei (TG) North America Corporation (TGNA) and TGNA Manufacturing Companies (AMCs).

Essential Duties And 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 airbag or steering wheel 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

Required Education, Experience, And Skills

Certifications and Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field, or equivalent years of experience is required

Experience

• 4 to 8 Years of experience in Engineering are required
• Strong understanding of general design and engineering release activities is required
• Strong understanding of various phases of APQP from initial concept through post-production is required
• Familiarity with automotive standards, concepts and practices is required
• Previous experience with Safety System commodities is required

Physical Requirements

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Technology Competencies

• Proficiency using Microsoft Office Suites 2016 or newer is required
• Previous experience with CATIA V5 or NX/UG is required
• Previous experience in Domestic or Japanese OEM Customer Portals is preferred

Work Environment

• Office Environment

Additional Competencies

• Ability to consistently meet deadlines is required
• Effective verbal, non-verbal, negotiation and written communication skills are required
• Ability to sustain a high degree of professionalism in interacting with internal and external customers is required
• Effective attention to detail, problem solving, analytical and organizational skills are required
• Strong organizational skills, analytical thinking skills, problem solving and project scheduling skills is required