Product Specialist - Cold End

Your Mission, Roles And Responsibilities

The Cold End Product Specialist is the primary product development contact for the PDL, responsible at the vehicle level throughout the product development phase. The Specialist collaborates with cross-functional specialists and experts from CAD, FEA, CFD, NVH, and manufacturing to ensure the product is properly developed, validated, and manufacturable.

• Ensure 3D design freeze in line with customer and internal milestones.
• Develop, design freeze, and validate sub-systems and components to ensure the overall vehicle architecture satisfies durability, noise performance, gas flow optimization, thermal-mechanical stress management, and heat management requirements.
• Translate customer specifications and DVP requirements into FCM internal validation plans.
• Coordinate CAD, FEA, CFD, NVH, and manufacturing interfaces to ensure cold ends are developed, validated, and manufacturable.
• Support the PDL with physical vehicle-level validation.
• Define appropriate design content, considering the usage of generic, carryover, and/or innovation-related components.
• Support programs during the acquisition phase.
• Lead internal design reviews as the technical product leader to promote generic solutions, cost control, and manufacturability.
• Create and maintain generic DFMEAs, incorporating latest lessons learned.
• Lead problem-solving and root cause analysis for premature or unexpected test failures.
• Represent NAO in global network activities, sharing lessons learned and supporting the development, use, and release of standards.
• Evaluate DCS deviations and approve or reject as appropriate.
• Create, update, and release engineering generics and specifications for related systems, subassemblies, and components.
• Provide product training to the engineering community.

Your Profile and Competencies to Succeed

• Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline, or Master’s Degree in Engineering, with an Automotive background preferred.
• Proven ability to use CAE tools (CFD, FEA, Flow Simulation).
• Strong knowledge or exposure to NVH.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• General automotive knowledge and Tier I or OEM engineering experience preferred.
• Strong teamwork sense.
• DVP & R (working knowledge).
• Problem-solving methodology.

Desirable Qualifications

• DVP & R (working knowledge).
• Problem-solving methodology (Lean 6 Sigma).
• Concurrent Engineering.
• Manufacturing Processes.
• Emissions.
• Applied engineering: heat transfer, noise, fluid flow, vibrations, static/dynamics, thermodynamics, materials.

What We Can Do For You

• An engaging and dynamic environment for contributing to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
• Opportunities for career development with a global workforce of over 157,000 people in more than 40 countries.
• A multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration.
• A learning environment with more than 22 hours of online and in-person training across five campuses worldwide.
• A commitment to achieving CO2 Net Zero by no later than 2045, aligning with the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
• Technological innovation and sustainability driving change in the automotive industry.

Why Join Us

• FORVIA is an automotive technology group at the heart of smarter and more sustainable mobility.
• We bring together expertise in electronics, clean mobility, lighting, interiors, seating, and lifecycle solutions to drive change in the automotive industry.
• We are the 7th largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in 43 countries.
• We were the first global automotive group to be certified with the SBTI Net-Zero Standard in June 2022, committed to reaching CO2 Net Zero by no later than 2045.
• We are ideally positioned to deliver solutions enhancing the lives of road-users everywhere.