Lead Engineer
Elmdon – Enabling Services
Main purpose of the job:
* Lead the Engineering Team by example.
* Represent Artifex as primary contact for Product/System Design Engineering.
* Determine and deliver the most appropriate design and engineering solution. • Ensure that all Product/System safety & performance attribute targets are met, right first time.
* Steer the engineering design activity ensuring most appropriate application of both direct and contract design resources are used.
* Collate and present data to support decision making.
* Ensure delivery of all Artifex internal & customer requirements in line with programme timing.
* Liaise with tooling and manufacturing specialists to ensure that the product design is feasible and repeatable for the vehicle life.
* In the absence of doubt, take responsibility
* Work hand in hand with Programme and Business Manager
* Primary deliverables: Cost, Timing, Quality, Robustness, Sustainability, Repeatability
Main missions and results:
* Lead the design and product engineering Team
* Customer/Supplier/Manufacturing Plant liaison. • Ensures that the engineering team drive the following activities:
* Design according customer aesthetics, technical requirements, and specifications.
* Design for assembly.
* Design for manufacture.
* Quality functional deployment.
* Finite element analysis data.
* Dimensional variation analysis (In conjunction with DVA specialist).
* Support Tool Timing in conjunction with the tooling group.
* Responsible for the engineering elements of customer part approval (PPAP).
* Support all tool trials & tool sign off
* Determine and apply the most appropriate and cost-effective solutions.
* Provide for design resolution as an extension of and in cooperation with the customer engineering team.
* Lead the Engineering Team by example.
* Assures a flawless introduction for New Product Introduction (NPI) position as defined in Artifex’s GDLS.
* Support cost estimates in relation to product and process changes, and liaise with Operations, sales, PM to ensure all recoverable costs are specified in the quotation.
* Customer liaison & management
* Support VAVE activities
* Ensuring together with development team (PM, design, tooling, quality, testing, launch, purchasing, sales) that the process is robust prior to tool shipment.
Preferred skills and experience:
* Bachelor and/or Diploma degree in automotive, plastics engineering, mechanical engineering or equivalent job-related experience
* Substantial experience within interior system delivery.
* Working knowledge of materials and manufacturing technologies to deliver lightweight and sustainable design solutions.
* Cradle to grave project experience including process and tool maturation and program launch.
* Experience in surface development.
* Conversant with major CAD systems applicable to automotive design.
* Demonstrated excellent management and interpersonal skills
* Knowledge of company product and manufacturing processes.
* Working knowledge of job-related technical skills: GD&T, DFM, DFA, CAE/FEA, CAD, FMEA, DVP&R.
* Fluent English
* Flexible to support projects at various locations.
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