Are you looking to work for a company that provides an innovative work environment, and your voice is heard?
- We are looking for a Closures Engineer to work in Auburn Hills. The Closures Engineer will need to have a strong technical knowledge on Closures. The Engineer will own, drive, and confirm your designs' performance with help from CAE, manufacturing, and suppliers, fast paced hardware engineering department. This role requires the engineer to be onsite.
Responsibilities- Understanding of automotive vehicle systems and their packaging requirements
- Developing part designs from master sections and design surfaces for Closure components.
- Relevant experience and understanding of component manufacturing processes like sheet metal formin g, roll forming, casting, and modern joining technologies.
- Understanding of manufacturing feasibility/ design for manufacturing & assembly
- Experience in managing engineering releases and change management for complex projects, including BOM management and related PLM activities.
- Knowledge of applying various types of materials (steel, advanced high-strength steel, aluminum, adhesives/sealers)
- Responsible to lead the design and development of weight efficient closure designs to deliver the highest level of performance in NVH, durability, and crash performance from a blank page through to production.
- Create and develop designs that are optimized for performance, weight, durability, and cost.
- Develop a testing plan to prove out design concepts and conduct physical testing to confirm the design meets performance targets.
- Vehicle launch experience.
- Experience working with vendors located in India, Europe and USA
- Familiar with India automotive requirements.
- Our ideal candidate exhibits a can-do attitude and approaches his or her work with vigor and determination. Candidates should have demonstrated the ability to learn quickly and work effectively in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment and be excellent at multi-tasking.
Skillset/Experience- 5+ years of accumulated experience in vehicle body engineering
- Ability to perform and create closure swing studies.
- Comprehensive understanding of system analysis, system interface, and integration knowledge and experience.
- Understanding of CAE tools and how they work. Using CAE out put to improve the body design
- Proficient knowledge of DVP&R and DFMEA for systems and components.
- Design and engineer parts and systems for the closures systems such as doors, hoods, decklids and sealing systems.
- Develop conceptual packaging models for various closures components including sheet metals, multi-material components, seal extrusions and closures hardware
- Work with other groups to ensure packaging compliance and clearance.
- Own, drive, and confirm your designs' performance with help from CAE, manufacturing, and suppliers, fast paced hardware engineering department.
Education and requirements - Bachelor's in engineering (minimum) with master's degree Preferred.
- 5+ years in automotive vehicle design and development with increasing levels of project and team management
- Significant experience and expertise in automotive areas eg: Closures, Mechanisms, CAE, Testing, Quality, production launch.
- Experience working and accepting culturally diverse team environment and willingness to learn new ways of interacting
What you'll get: - Healthcare (Medical/Dental/Vision)
- 401(k) Program w/ company match
- Life Insurance and Disability
- Paid Holidays
- Vacation Time