Design Engineer

Tstna•Reynoldsburg, OH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Design Engineer supports the design, development, and release of automotive seating, interior trim, and/or powersport seating products. The role works directly with customers, suppliers, and internal cross-functional teams to create products that meet requirements and regulations, while supporting research, business objectives, problem solving, and continuous improvement. The position is based at TS Tech Americas, Inc.'s facility in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. The company is unable to sponsor employment visas for this position.

Requirements

Minimum bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent, such as Mechanical Engineering or Product Development, or 1–3 years of product design or development experience desired.
Proficiency in parametric modeling, CAD drafting, and annotation.
Familiarity with CAD FEA simulations and interpretation of results.
Experience with product design for manufacturing (DFM).
Experience with project or team schedules.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office/Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to travel locally by car and domestically and/or internationally by air without restriction; travel is typically less than 10%.
Ability to stand, walk, and sit; use hands to pick up, handle, or feel objects; occasionally reach with hands and arms; and lift up to 50 pounds unassisted.
Ability to communicate verbally, hear information at normal spoken levels, and prepare and analyze written or computer data.

Nice To Haves

CATIA v5 or v6 proficiency is preferred.
Experience in automotive seat or interior trim product design or development is preferred.
Experience with MS Project is a plus.

Responsibilities

Prepare and present technical reports, presentations, CAD designs, schedules, continuous improvement ideas, and design layouts.
Collaborate across groups to support company goals and participate in sectional, departmental, project, and customer meetings.
Communicate with customers and suppliers to maintain relationships, clarify expectations, and support negotiations.
Create and maintain schedules to manage responsibilities and resources, including schedules, annual goals, and budgets.
Lead design technicians to keep schedules on track and ensure CAD models and drawings are accurate and compliant with standard procedures and ISO policies.
Understand and locate applicable drawings, specifications, and regulations; analyze, solve, and communicate problems and solutions.
Support innovation through benchmarking, proof-of-concept work, research, and product or business-process development proposals.
Translate product requirements into optimized concepts for quality, performance, weight, and cost.
Interface with customers to understand technical requirements and deliverables and inform the cross-functional team.
Create and maintain product 3D CAD layouts and models, 2D drawings, and 3DA, and control bills of materials and design-change documentation.
Support design analysis and prediction using kinematics, hand calculations, FEA, multibody dynamics, and statistical variation analysis tools.
Lead or support DFMEA, DRBFM, and/or FTA documentation with cross-functional teams.
Work with suppliers and manufacturing teams to ensure production feasibility.
Present designs in technical reviews using dynamic CAD reviews and reports.
Track design-related issues and propose countermeasures within schedule and scope.
Define and track design-change details for Engineering Change Notice documentation and support internal product gateways with technical documentation.
Support development and proposal of recurrence-prevention methods.
Identify, understand, and communicate new or revised regulations and requirements.
Support value-added investigations into part, product, process, and design improvements, and help develop new tools, standards, and procedures.