Design Engineer

Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems, Inc.•Marysville, OH

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Design Engineer role is responsible for controlling and managing products within the scope of Quality, Cost, Design, and Delivery to achieve defined targets through Product Design activity. This hybrid position involves interfacing with customers on technical aspects of E&EDS Design, creating 2D WH drawings in Customer’s Catia-V5/V6, and ensuring the accuracy of these drawings relative to specifications and guidelines. The role also includes troubleshooting electrical problems, supporting VA/VE investigations to meet cost targets, leading design reviews, establishing alternative solutions for design issues, and supporting new business competitions with application engineering. The engineer will investigate and implement design changes, create supporting documents for design presentations, and support the creation and execution of testing specifications to validate products. The position requires 10-15% travel within the US and Mexico and reasonable overtime as needed to meet customer schedules.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree required Engineering or related Technical field (BSEE, BSME preferred).
3-5 years Design and /or Product Development experience.
Preferably, wire harness or related products in Automotive industry.
Team oriented person with good communication skills and strong self-motivation for self-direction on challenging tasks.
Proficient with Microsoft office

Nice To Haves

CATIA or other ES-CAD system experience preferred

Responsibilities

Control/manage products from Quality, Cost, Design and Delivery scope to achieve defined targets through Product Design activity.
Interface with customers on all technical aspects of E&EDS Design. Create 2D WH drawings in Customer’s Catia-V5/V6 based program. Responsible for Design Accuracy of Customer 2D drawing related to specs and guidelines.
Countermeasure and troubleshoot electrical problems. Meet customer and internal cost targets through supporting VA/VE investigation.
Lead, coordinate, and participate with design reviews to progress design through vehicle development stages.
Establish alternative solutions/countermeasures for design review result as it relates to spec requirements, quality concerns, and value added targets.
Support new business competition through application engineering of new technology, new products and other value added proposals.
Investigate, coordinate, and implement design changes between customer and internal organization.
Create supporting documents for Design and present to customer and internal groups.
Support with creation of testing specifications to validate products to Customer and Market performance. Support with the scheduling, set-up, reporting and presenting of each test as it relates to test requirement.
10-15% travel required within US (regionally) and Mexico to support product maturation activity. Reasonable overtime required as it relates to customer’s design release schedule and urgent request.