Senior Product Engineer
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Contract - Midlands
Main purpose of the job:
* Drives the best design and engineering solutions for systems and modules.
* Ensures all Product/APQP requirements are met.
* Manages engineering design activities for quality, feasibility, cost, and customer requirements.
* Works with tooling specialists to ensure designs are robust for production.
* Engages engineering teams in Product Development Team processes.
Principle Accountabilities:
* Manages engineering budget, product cost, timing, and quality.
* Follows RASIC in GDLS and company policies.
Main missions and results:
* Supervises design and product engineering.
* Liaises with customers, suppliers, and manufacturing plants.
* Ensures designs meet styling, technical requirements, assembly, and manufacturing needs.
* Implements quality deployment and provides FEA and dimensional analysis data.
* Supports tool timing, trials, and sign-off.
* Ensures robust processes prior to tool shipment with cross-functional teams.
* Applies cost-effective technical solutions and engages subject matter experts.
* Resolves design issues in cooperation with customer engineering teams.
* Implements Artifex best practices and supports New Product Introduction (NPI).
* Participates in model year changes and APQP gate reviews.
* Supports cost estimates and ensures recoverable costs are captured.
* Manages customer communications, VAVE, and program RFQs.
Preferred skills and experience:
* Bachelors or Diploma in automotive, plastics, or mechanical engineering.
* Experience in automotive interiors, Cockpit, Instrument Panel, and Passenger Airbag development.
* Cradle-to-grave project experience including process, tool, and program launch.
* Knowledge of surface development, CAD tools (Enovia, Tetra, Kisters, JT2Go), and engineering standards. xsngvjr
* Strong management, interpersonal, and technical skills (GD&T, DFM, DFA, CAE/FEA, CAD, FMEA, DVP&R).