Design Engineer III

HL Mando America Corp•Novi, MI

10h•$132,267 - $174,105•Hybrid

About The Position

Responsible for design engineering of automotive brake products, including conventional brake calipers, motor-on-caliper brake products, electro-mechanical brake calipers, and other foundation brake systems and components. The role involves understanding customer requirements and creating product designs that meet them, while supporting competitive product proposals and collaborating with multifunctional teams, application engineers, project managers, test coordinators, technicians, and manufacturing teams. The engineer develops and refines designs using CATIA V5, including CAD modeling, packaging, preliminary CAE, finite element analysis, tolerance stack-ups, layouts, bills of material, mass estimates, 2D drawings, and 3D design refinements. The role also supports technical reviews with customers, program planning and issue tracking, gate reviews, Product Development Process activities, build planning, design validation and production validation, and manufacturing reviews and documentation. The position is based at 29930 Hudson Dr., Novi, Michigan, and may be performed remotely 17% of the time. It requires 3% domestic travel.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign academic equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related field.
At least 5 years of progressive experience in the job offered or a related occupation, including Design Consultant or related experience.
At least 5 years of experience with design of automotive subsystems, CATIA V5, and DFMEA.

Responsibilities

Understand customer requirements and create product designs in response to them.
Execute the design process, including CAD modeling, packaging, preliminary CAE, stack-ups, and design reviews, to ensure braking component designs meet internal and external requirements.
Support multifunctional team efforts to create competitive product proposals and win business.
Collaborate with the team on requirement analysis and customer responses, meeting feasible requirements and negotiating exceptions for requirements that cannot be met.
Cover component aspects and assist with systems aspects.
Collaborate with application engineers and prepare materials for customer technical reviews.
Create 3D designs within company guidelines and customer requirements, and package them into the customer-required environment.
Iterate CAD designs and FEA to optimize performance versus mass.
Create layouts, bills of material, and mass estimates.
After program award, complete tolerance stack-ups, 2D drawings, and 3D refinements using CATIA V5.
Update designs when customers change packaging environments or requirements.
Support the application engineer in creating engineering deliverable timing and support the project manager with the overall program timing chart.
Keep open issue lists up to date with the application engineer and collaborate with the project manager and team to close issues.
Provide technical solutions to meet product performance requirements.
Support Product Development Team meetings when requested by the application engineer or project manager.
Contribute information for gate reviews and approvals with the project manager and team, and flag potential issues or roadblocks in advance.
Support all phases of the Product Development Process, including APQP, DFMEA, PFMEA, and KPC definition.
Release designs on time for builds and collaborate with the application engineer and test coordinator to plan builds.
Provide technical solutions for performance attributes that do not meet internal or customer requirements.
Support the application engineer, test coordinator, and technicians by providing information needed for design validation and production validation.
Review and discuss test results with the application engineer and team.
Support plant efforts during manufacturing reviews and trials, and assist with documentation including control plans, operation sheets, flow charts, capability studies, ISIR, and PPAP documentation.