Computer Aided Engineering

Responsibilities

• Independent Project Management and leadership in planning and execution of full vehicle and subsystems models for programs to process time and consumer requirements.
• Collaborate with VDDV consumer base and develop robust statement of requirements for each modelling event.
• Interact, proactively engage, effectively communicate and co‑ordinate with Vehicle Performance Integration Manager, Design Release Engineer, Design Engineer, Suppliers, Performance, and Program teams to develop and refine plans for model builds.
• Lead and leverage globally distributed team for model builds.
• Perform risk assessment, monitor progress and enable first‑time quality and on time delivery of models.
• Actively participate and contribute to department process, speed and quality improvement meetings.
• Conduct robust root cause and preventive action summary on quality improvement opportunities.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field of study.
• Eight (8) years of experience as a CAE Engineer, Specialist, Senior Analyst, Project Leader, or related occupation.
• Creating full Vehicle Safety, Trimmed Structure, Complex vehicle subsystem CAE models and analysis and synthesis of vehicle CAE loadcases.
• Vehicle development process and cross functional interfaces.
• Finite Element Analysis (FEA) theory and application.
• Computer aided software tools including ANSA, HYPERMESH, LS‑DYNA, Opti Struct and NASTRAN, ABAQUS, Primer, and Siemens NX and Catia.
• Project management.
• Full vehicle assembly.
• Perform risk assessment.