Qualifications: BE / B. Tech / M. Tech in Automotive/Mechanical streams

Experience:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in areas of Automotive Seating System Design & Development.
• Expertise in complete seating system delivery and achieving the targets in every phase of product development starting from Style to SOP.
• Experience in driving the changes in close discussion with Styling, Product Planning & Platform teams to meet the complete seating requirements.
• One of most critical and high exposure roles in Automotive industry. To lead a team of
• Engineers to enhance the seating features, comfort & convenience through Design details,
• Engineering robustness, appropriate material selection for meeting the all the performance requirements, stringent regulatory criteria, also ensuring the highest level of aesthetics and haptics.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Plan & execute the seating system delivery by meeting all the project requirements such as Cost, Weight, Performance & timeline in Passenger Vehicle programs with the highest order of comfort, convenience, safety & aesthetics.
• Reporting the Product development status & timely risk escalations in regular intervals and specified milestones.
• Support with Technical Expertise to Styling team, Product planning team to provide the best configuration by the means of appropriate benchmarking, future road map &
• Proof-of-concept readiness.
• Anticipating and reporting the risk associated in meeting the seats related DVP
• (Regulatory, Functional, Durability) & achieving the first time right for each program and proposing mitigation plans.
• Fully aware of upcoming regulations & consider the changes well in advance to ensure future ready seating system for upcoming programs.
• Support the supplier, product planning team & interface CFT team to setting the best possible FI targets & achieve them jointly.
• Build, Guide & Nurture the team to educate, experience & enhance their technical abilities to empower them to deliver the best products.
• Develop the team to work collaboratively with CFT’s like CAE, BSR, NVH, STA, DE,
• VD, PQ, NovaC, Validation, PVT etc to ensure high Quality product Design in line with the industry best practices to enhance Customer’s Experience.
• Closely monitor & timely review of tooling activities to closely work with CDMM /
• Supply base to ensure the utmost Product manufacturing quality & avoid potential failures & process issues during production stage & post SOP.
• Research of automotive seating related trends across industries and adaptation of the relevant improvements in the new vehicles.

Key competencies:

 Seating System design & development experience.

 Design Thinking process knowledge.

 Realizing the customer expectations and emotions while interacting with the vehicle.

 Disruptive innovation and change catalyst.

 Strong knowledge in automotive product/ecosystem with a desire to learn new

aspects of business.

 Industry knowledge and a keen interest in latest technologies.

Soft Skills:

 Desire to stay ahead of the curve and ensure team building

 Strong project management methodologies

 Passion for understanding user experience and idea generation

 Technical Know-How of latest seating technologies around the globe & acumen to closely predict the upcoming trends.

Mahindra Auto

Position-Principal Engineer (L4DH) BIW

Experience Level-16 to 22 Years

Job Location-Chennai-India

Repots To- COE Head Body systems

Industry Preferred-Automotive

Qualification:

B Tech in Mechanical engineering or M Tech

Responsibilities & Key Deliverables:

- Achieving the Functional image targets (Crash, durability, NVH, weight) set for BIW

- Meeting the time, cost and performance targets set

- Leading a team of close to 40 engineers with 5-6 lead engineers

- Collaborating with Studio, CME, Manufacturing, CDMM, simulation and other interfacing departments to achieve project deliverables

- Bringing out key risks in achieving engineering targets with proposed solutions for management direction

General Requirements:

- Hands on experience of working in BIW design for passenger car applications

Functional Competencies, Skills critical for the job:

- Deep understanding of BIW architecture, simulations, manufacturing process and validation issues

- Deep understanding of latest trends in BIW design, light weighting and manufacturing process

Mahindra

Soft Trim Engineer:

Place of Posting Auburn Hills, MI, USA

Qualification BSME, or Related BS in Engineering

Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

• New vehicle development by influencing design, providing tooling estimates, providing material suggestions, participating in risk analysis, helping to coordinate drawings, being able to analyze and provide suggestions regarding cost reduction and quality improvement opportunities.
• Proficient in Carpet, Dash Isopad, NVH Pad, Wheelhouse Pad, Hood and underbody NVH Pad, etc…
• In-depth knowledge of NVH and Carpet materials, compression mold design and molding processes
• Experience with planning and managing projects, supplier and vendor management, product development and lifecycle stages
• Work on early Master Sections and Engineering Surfaces
• Troubleshoot using DOE process and other black belt methodologies
• Participates in the creation and implementation of new design concepts
• Maintains up to date BOM (Bill of Material) for all assigned parts
• Perform feasibility checks with respect to material, manufacturing & design perspective
• Develop innovative solutions to improve from a cost/mass, performance, and quality perspective
• Create and present technical reports to communicate project status and results
• Well versed with global relevant standard & methodology
• Responsible for the final design robustness and product quality
• Soft Trim Engineer will work with a complete cross functional vehicle development team to define functional requirements, develop component and system DVPR, DFMEA, and release system and component performance specifications.

Experience (years) 5 to 10 years

Industry Preferred Automotive (mandatory)
Competencies

• CATIA V5
• Teamcenter
• DFMEA
• Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint

General Requirements

• Travel up to 20% of time domestically and internationally
• Flexibility in hours based on international collaboration
• 100% onsite in the office.