Product Designer

US Farathane•Auburn Hills, MI

5d•Onsite

About The Position

US Farathane is looking to grow our Design team and seeking a Product Designer. This role will sit on-site at our Corporate Tech Center in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The Product Designer must be able to create all CAD files using Catia V5 or NX to the customer standards. This position requires strong knowledge and experience in automotive interior and exterior plastic design. This includes injection molding, 2 shot injection molding, compression molding, extruded design and class 'A' surfacing.

Requirements

Associates degree in design technology, mechanical design or equivalent required (equivalent job experience will be considered).
Minimum 5-7 years of hands-on, automotive product design.
Minimum 5 years’ experience using Catia V5 or NX software.
1-5 years Catia V5 or NX drawing experience.
Familiarity with Automotive OEM Global Requirements.
Able to create class 'A' surface from master sections, scans and surface.
Experience designing injection molded components with good understanding of backside lifter/slide design, 'A' surface graining and mold design associated to draft angle.
Microsoft Office - Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Responsibilities

Maintain 3D math models, drawings and assemblies using NX or Catia V5 CAD software.
Interpret information from internal and customer engineering team (marked prints, sketches, Power Point) and apply it to the design.
Follow design direction and develop multiple design concepts in a short duration of time.
Apply customer's given standards and procedures within the part design for release into OEM's system.
Work directly with Engineering Team to ensure Body CAD requirements are met.
Communicate with Design Manager on project deliverables and timing.
Able to meet program design/drawing deliverable schedules.
Able to apply Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerances to drawings.
Create math models using sketcher and parametric modeling.