The Role
As a Battery Cooling Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for
•end-to-end development of Automotive Battery and Engine cooling system - from concept through launch.
•managing technical delivery, supplier coordination, and attribute validation to ensure that seat systems meet OEM’s standards for comfort, safety, aesthetics, and innovation
•evaluating and implementing cost reduction (VAVE) proposals
Your responsibilities:
•Delivering engineering solutions for both prototype and production parts
•Optimized design solutions for weight, cost, manufacturing feasibility, quality and functional attributes
•Ensure adherence to OEM specific processes and procedures to deliver robust, fully validated geometric compatible commodities
•Ensure adherence to OEM specific PLM standards
•Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clearly communicate design status to key stakeholders such as manufacturing, suppliers, component owners and management
Your Profile
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
•Experience in Design, development and launch of Automotive Battery and Engine cooling system includes commodities like radiator, condenser stack integration, charge air cooler, EGR cooler, oil cooler, degas bottle, pump—mechanical/electric, thermostat/valve, fans & shrouds, hoses/pipes, quick connectors, valves, sensors).
•Lead Cooling system architecture development: Heat exchanger stack, Airflow management, coolant circuit topology (primary/secondary loops), heat up/cool down strategies, and electrification interfaces (e pump, PTC heaters, battery thermal interfaces where applicable).
•Experience in managing supplier teams for the delivery of program milestones
•Experience in ensuring design solutions meeting program level targets for cost & weight, legal regulations & DV requirements, optical quality and Product Audit requirements
•Experience in maintaining commodity documentation up to date including meeting minutes, foundation & program DFMEAs, DFM/DFA, quality history & bill of design
•Experience in creating and maintaining of BOM, 3D models, 2D drawing and GD&T using CATIA V5 and tolerance stack up
•Capable of handling projects independently and working closely with CAE team to achieve the desired targets (Functional and NVH).
•Supporting in creating and updating supplier RFI/RFQ.
•Experience in complying with the commodity / System and vehicle level test requirement with detail planning of test & development
•Knowledge of issue management and build support.
•Component Ownership, Design and Release, Catia V5/V6, 3DX,
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience: (As applicable)
•Creating and proposing alternative solutions considering VAVE ideas.
•Working knowledge of problem resolution techniques & Root cause analysis techniques (e.g. Six Sigma, 5 Whys, Fishbone, 8D, Ishikawa)