Product Engineer Body

V2

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Skills Required:

Technical Writing, Product Engineering, 3D Modeling, Benchmarking, Technical Requirements, Mechanical Engineering
1. Technical Writing – Ability to draft and publish technical specifications and requirements. Writing Atomic statements, and ability to write core documentation that aligns with customer use cases and test conditions. Drafting DFMEA, DVP related documents from scratch.
2. Product Engineering

– Experience with developing a product from start to finish including early development through to launch of that product. 3. 3D Modeling – Ability to open, view, measure, and cut basic sections in both Vis and Catia V5. Ability to complete basic modeling of 3D shapes within Catia.
4. Benchmarking

– Experience with collecting competitive benchmarking information like mass, size, and features to compare with existing designs.
5. Technical Requirements

– Experience with collecting information required to draft technical requirements. Exposure to Voice of the Customer (VOC) data collection, along with ability to understand how to write requirements from a physics-based approach.
6. Mechanical Engineering – Show an understanding of basic principles of Statics and Dynamics. Ability to draft and/or complete a Free Body Diagram (FBD) of a moving system.

Experience with mechanisms and structures. Experience

Required:

5+ Years of experience developing Closures Systems (Door / Hood / Liftgate/Tailgate) and exposure to writing technical specifications.

Education Required:

Bachelor's Degree Additional Information:
*** HYBRID (4 days per week in office)**
* • Experience with sheet metal body structures, closures, stamping, static and/or dynamic sealing, power/gas struts, power drive units/motors, and hinges
• Direct experience in closures systems (e.g. tailgates, liftgates, swing gates, side doors, cargo doors, moveable roof systems) a plus.
• Experience solving current model quality issues and implementing corrective actions.
• Ability to utilize and demonstrate System engineering disciplines and Design for Manufacturing principles to proactively solve issues.
• Knowledge of craftsmanship expectations, benchmarking, and futuring.
• Knowledge of automotive exterior components, including materials and manufacturing technologies, such as stamping, injection molding, extrusion, forging, casting, welding, riveting, etc.
• Experience with bolted joint structures
• Experience with Structural mechanics
• Experience with hinge mechanism dynamics
• Experience with Systems engineering
• Working knowledge of FEA, DFMEA, Control Plan development, & Dimensional Variation Analysis
• Ability to operate within CATIA/3DX environment, Teamcenter Engineering, and Digital Buck preferred
• CATIA/3DX ability to create simple parts, sections, and studies a plus
• Capability with Microsoft Suite of products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Advanced kinematic synthesis of 4 bar linkages and FBD V2

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