Our Auburn Hills, MI customer is seeking an experienced Design Engineer (Driveline/Powertrain; Creo & Catia V5) for a direct hire position at a salary range of $80,000-$90,000 (maybe more for the right candidate and 15 years’ of exp.). After hiring direct, the candidate must wait a full calendar month after start date to be eligible for client’s benefits. Reports to SR Design & Analysis Manager. Will only consider US Citizens, Green Card Holders, and Canadian Citizen/TN Visa candidates; no sponsorship or OPT candidates.
Purpose: As part of the Auburn Hills based Design and Analysis team, this role will provide Design Engineering support within the Torque group, aligning to best practices and tools.
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Responsibilities
- Evaluate design requirements from the Application/Product Engineers by applying calculation tools, tolerance stack-ups, and layout studies. Substantiate the design intent meets the expectations by generating CAD models and drawings to enable their review and next step decisions.
- Work as an integral part of the Design 00-Engineering team to carry out activities to reduce internal and external costs; i.e. VA/VE and manufacturing process changes.
- Support the identification and specification of significant characteristics as agreed with Driveline Product and Manufacturing Engineers to enable DFM and DFA within product launch operations, and take responsibility for model and/or drawing updates accordingly.
- Coordinate with Application/Product engineers to support evolution/verification of DFMEA. Comply with the Customer APQP and Driveline CAPM process to support and meet program-timing deliverables.
- Conduct and lead design reviews (of your work), internally within the company and externally with the customers as required.
- Conduct reviews and activities with suppliers, third-party design engineering teams to support customer design requirements.
- Lead AUB Torque Design team to develop improved ways of working, aligning to Driveline engineering best practices and tools for CAD attached CAE, incorporating aspects of CAE analysis earlier into the design process.
- Collaborate globally with other Driveline Torque design site teams and support group activities as required.
- Support in the development and roll out of local and global methods, procedures and systems within the Torque Design group.
- Support (with the opportunity to lead) the daily team communication and facilitation of internal and external Torque CAD resource, supporting respective work packages.
- Lead other designers within the group in discussion and communication with other company functional teams (i.e. Manufacturing, Test/Vehicle Engineering, Prototype, Purchasing, Corporate IT, Global Engineering IT) where necessary.
- Provide user support to manage released CAD data (3-D & 2-D) within the global PDM system.
- Support Senior Design Manager with the development of PDM users within the CAD department and Engineering department teams.
- Provide overall CAD design support as defined in Torque Designer Role Profile
Requirements:
- BSME or Design Engineering Bachelors’ is highly preferred, but may look at someone that is the perfect fit in design without a Bachelors, but would get a Designer title if that was the case.
- 5 years’ of automotive powertrain and/or driveline design engineering experience is required specifically with ground vehicle OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, or 3rd party services. Highly prefers someone from the Tier 1 supplier side of things as this is a systems level position versus a component level position, so may not be a fit if they only have OEM experience. (In terms of salary if person has say 5 years of torque exp with 1-2 years of Creo & Catia exp they would be in the $80k range, but customer is flexible. If 15 years’ or more would considering paying higher than $85k-$90k).
- Strong engineering based IT and tools exp with strong knowledge of experience in CAD (Creo Parametric 2.0 or higher and Catia V5 is absolutely required. If candidate has been actively using Creo with 1-2 years’ of experience that should work because it is a fairly newer program. There is a lot of design involved with this position. Will learn PDM systems (Windchill PDMlink) which is a company-based program.
- Experience with CAD attached CAE lead design ways of working and associated software technologies is a plus, but required. Fundamental understating of CAE simulation modeling and analysis. No specific CAE software as they will be trained on Windchill.
- Strong knowledge and experienced in manipulating 3d models for spatial vehicle package and layout design.
- Strong knowledge of application of GD&T and detailing drawings
- All highly preferred: 5-10 years’ of product understanding and experience of ground vehicle geared products, torque devices, propshafts, and FWD halfshafts. May also consider candidates with PTUs, CV joints, Axles, Gears, etc. Casting (sand & die) design experience. Sealing system design experience.
- Strong organizational, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Must be able to multitask between work packages and CAD/PDM environments
- Ability to document and evolve processes and work instructions.
- Strong problem solving skills
- Must be team oriented – speak up, ask questions, and work well with others
- Be willing and able to engage in moderate amounts of domestic and international travel independently. 10-25% travel mostly to company plants in NC & OH, but maybe a couple of times per year may have to go to Germany, UK; doubtful to China or India, but it may be a possibility.
