Product Engineer

Product Engineer

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

Magna is an innovative leader in the development and manufacturing of high quality complete seating systems. Our solution includes seating structures, mechanisms and hardware, as well as foam and trim products for global automotive, heavy truck and bus industries. Our capabilities include market and consumer research; full concept development; design and engineering capabilities; testing, validation and world-class manufacturing. Our award-winning seating solutions are developed from consumer research, finding the ease of operation to be comfortable, convenient and connected.

Job Responsibilities:

We are looking for two Product Engineers in different departments:

Structural Products Engineer
- Responsible for the design, development, and implementation of automotive seating structure assemblies. The components are primarily stampings, tubes, and wires and will include process considerations for welding, rivets, threaded fasteners, pivoting joints, etc. and the integration of mechanisms such as latches, tracks and recliners.

Seat Complete Engineer
- Responsible for the design, development, integration and implementation of automotive seating systems. This includes ensuring overall system level performance is met by managing the individual component requirements as well as the system level interactions. Component responsibilities may include plastics, foam pads, spring assemblies, etc.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Generally assigned to components, sub-assemblies, or systems that are less complex in nature, e.g. carry over parts, existing business, and/or minor modifications. Where assigned to systems, responsibility is usually for component(s) within the system.
• Coordinate the complete development for the designated products including, but not limited to design and release, build and test activities, in accordance with standard operating procedures and the product delivery process.
• Incorporate customer requirements, regulations and product specifications into the design of the designated products, ensuring compliance with operational, cost, timing, safety, reliability, quality, and manufacturing feasibility parameters.
• Analyze products and formulates engineering conclusions by the application of engineering and/or mathematical principles and tools. Support Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA), Design of Experiments (DOE), Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) and Design for Manufacturing/Design for Assembly (DFM/DFA) in the development of the product.
• Write/compile engineering content for the following deliverables: engineering specifications and documentation, including DVP&R's, 8D's, GD&T, BOM, prototype control plans, key product characteristics, engineering changes and work orders.
• Consult and collaborate with personnel in various engineering and design activities relative to product development requirements. Support effective communications within the project team and the customer, supplier, manufacturing and quality communities with guidance from engineering management and senior engineering personnel. Maintain all appropriate documentation.
• Provide engineering direction and support to design personnel.
• Review and approve engineering designs. Review, approve, complete, and submit required change notices to ensure design outputs meet design inputs.
• Maintain good housekeeping of the area.
• Ensure adherence to company, departmental and health and safety systems and policies to meet legislative requirements.
• Supports Internal / External Audit efforts regarding ISO 9001:2015, IATF 16949 Certification for remote site location (Group Office).
• Supports the requirements as detailed in Standard Operating Procedure 8000…