Lead Design Engineer

Objective of job

• Lead and coordinate the Development of wire harnesses for vehicle electrical systems, as subproject to assure on-time and high quality product development with given support from the conception phase through series production.
• Ensure and improve that all technical, legal, and customer specific requirements are followed.
• Assure that all internal and external quality requirements are considered

Principal activities

• Analyze and evaluate changes (internal/ external), cooperate in negotiations (e.g. weight and costs of changes, etc.) and assure implementation.
• Create and check project reports sand presentations, as well as project conclusion documentation.
• Oversee production-related issues in the design work and conceptual drawings
• Oversee and Design connections for parts/ component groups or single complex parts, taking into consideration existing individual functions elements.
• Develop design concepts according to internal requirements, drafts, guidelines, customer requirements and legal requirements.
• Develop and coordinate design concepts taking into account predetermined manufacturing technologies, specified materials and technical standards.
• Ensure that all documentation is properly created and maintained for new parts, modified parts, and purchase parts.  Ensure that data is properly stored within CMH.
• Handle design changes and serve as a local point of contact; development and technical clarification with the customer departments of all such changes
• Leading the change management process for the changes in the appropriate customer tools and internal DRX development tools
• Participate in FMEA documentation.
• Management of developed parts until series production.  Evaluate alternatives and recommend product solutions to components/assembly concerns throughout the development process. 
• Customer contact: responsible for customer interaction, attending customer meetings, conducting technical correspondence.
• Define tasks, recognize problems, analyze them and develop recommended solutions, clarification or opportunities for realization, with support for practical implementation.
• Implement/ have implemented design results in technical lists (e.g. routings, etc.) taking into consideration the numbering system and product-specific features
• Full responsibility for definition and release of wire harness drawings
• Preparation of concepts and suggestions for improvement (optimizations)
• Cooperation on specifications, installation tests and reworks of wire harnesses in prototypes and pre-production vehicles
• Active work in customer tools like Mentor Graphics and Catia
• Support and cooperation for the assembly of development vehicles
• Definition of requirements for materials, processes and tools
• Be conversant with extraction and termination of all types of automotive connection systems i.e. Bosch, Tyco, Delphi, Yazaki, Sumitomo, Molex etc.
• Support new and existing customer projects
• Support installation of prototype assemblies at customer's site – feedback as required.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of 3-5 years experience in Electrical System Development
• Experienced with Catia and/or Mentor Graphics
• Working knowledge with product development to start of production
• Business level Spanish language desired