Lead Handles Development Engineer

Job Title: Lead Handles Development Engineer

Location: Dearborn MI

Onsite/ Hybrid/ Remote: Onsite

Duration: 18 months

Job Description:

We are seeking high-caliber Lead Engineers to spearhead the development of Door Handles on several current production programs with clients supplier partners. This role focuses on the end-to-end development of one exterior handle mechanism and several interior handles where the Handles will be newly re-engineered based on existing parts with new supplier partners. Each role will be split to lead a unique handle architecture type and its variants.

You will lead a strategic supplier through an accelerated go-fast application moving from design to production readiness. The lead engineer will also need to work with affected cross-functional client teams to ensure interface requirements are considered and met including latching and closures sub-system.

Summary:

• Responsible for leading the suppliers through a go-fast application ready development of new Handle opening system.
• Responsible for leading and managing the suppliers through development stages and release parts that are ready for production tooling.
• Responsible for ensuring tooled parts are validated per PPAP requirements.
• Responsible for keeping project timing of activities driving for milestone deliverable compliance and keeping client management involved and aware of progress and any roadblocks.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with suppliers to develop product design.
• Track delivery milestones and planning that achieve scheduled PPAP.
• Perform design CAD drawing reviews
• Run and coordinate analytical verification (simulation calculation stack-up T&E)
• Review product design for compliance with engineering principles company standards requirements and related specifications. (Healthchart/Checklist)
• Coordinate activities concerned with technical developments scheduling and resolving engineering design and test problems.
• Integrates all known Product Process & Lessons Learned issues into the FMEA.
• Coordinates supplier validation testing and review the test reports.
• Coordinates client internal vehicle and sub-system validation testing.
• Regular communication with the involved internal/external technical groups.
• Prepare interim and completion project reports.
• Prepare technical presentations.
• Release for production (WERS) / support the production (SREA Alerts)
• Manage storage of supplier design data in client system/folders (CAD Drawings CAE models)

Required Skills

• 10 years of mechanisms development experience (preferably related to latching handles and exterior mechanisms)
• Strong knowledge of engineering plastics and steels and manufacturing processes such as molding stampings castings.
• Preferred experience and knowledge of water management and sealing design greases painted plastics.
• Preferred experience and understanding of electronics such as microswitches and small harnesses.
• Perform (as needed) and lead suppliers with tolerance analysis studies
• Awareness and preferred capability of tolerance analytical tools such as C-Tol 3DCS Enventive VSA etc..
• Awareness and preferred capability of CAE tools (ADAMS Working Model CATIA FEA Hypermesh etc..)
• Engineering expertise with DFMEA (including B/P-Diagram RDM Interface Matrix) DVP&R DOE Problem Solving & 6-sigma tools (5D/8D/6-panel etc..) SPC methods Statistical analysis DFM/DFA GD&T.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Work in CATIA V5/V6 and Teamcenter/Enovia for CAD reviews and basic design work
• Microsoft Office tools (Excel Word Power Point)