Job Description

Job Title: Senior Mechanical Designer                

Department: Automotive Engineering     

Job Responsibilities: 

• Develop advanced product designs in cooperation with the appropriate engineering disciplines and technicians according to customer and federal regulations and specifications.
• Use CATIA Version 5 (Revision 20 or higher) CAD software or any other equivalent tools at a highly skilled level to develop product concepts and designs of Automotive products and components.  
• Create 3D models of product designs, along with internal and customer detail drawings.  Use software for all data management and control.
• Work with team of mechanical engineers to design plastic injection molded, cast and stamped hardware and its components per internal and industry best practices.  Idea generation/brainstorming.
• Retrieve customer supplied data as starting point and use supplied data to interpret geometry required for component interface.
• Manage data conversions from other CAD packages.
• Prepare relevant data to support customer design reviews.
• Assist design and release engineers in support of component part release, including authoring engineering change notices.
• Stay current on innovative manufacturing processes to facilitate optimal product design using DFA and/or Design for Assembly & Manufacturing methodology.
• Support internal design reviews with peers and management to insure that new product designs are compliant to ‘Best Practices’ and ‘Lessons Learned’ requirements.

Basic Qualifications: 

• Education:
  • High School Diploma.
  • Concentration of courses related to CAD / Design type of work.
• Experience:
  • 8-10 Years experience in automotive product design, including:
  • Experience in the design of injection-molded plastic components
  • Experience in the design of stamped sheet metal components
  • CATIA V5 CAD or any other equivalent design skills
• Working Knowledge:
  • Minimum 5 years design experience using software including creation of freeform surfaces, solids and detail drawings
  • In-Depth understanding of the automotive product design and development process
  • Proper drafting, dimensioning and tolerancing techniques, including GD&T

Preferred Qualifications & Desired Competencies:

• Education:
  • Associates or Bachelors degree in product design or CAD design
• Experience:
  • Experience with the automotive OEM vehicle development process for OEMs such as Chrysler, Ford, GM, or Toyota
  • Experience using other CAD tools, especially Unigraphics and ProEngineer

• Working Knowledge:
  • Previous BMS, VCU, MCU experience
  • Experience in the design and engineering of die-cast metal components
  • Experience using MS Office s/w, especially Excel and PowerPoint