Seat Complete Design Release Engineer
Job Summary
The Seat Complete Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering vehicle seating systems. This includes ensuring that seats meet safety, performance, and regulatory standards. The role involves working across different departments and managing the seat product from the initial concept through to production.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and/or integrate seat structures, seat components, foam, trim and full seat systems.
- Handle product release lifecycle: create and maintain BOMs, manage design revisions using change management systems.
- Ensure successful integration of the seat system in the vehicle.
- Develop DVPRs and support both prototype and production builds.
- Analyze problems, lead root cause and troubleshooting on design and manufacturing issues.
- Implement interim and permanent corrective actions to design and manufacturing issues.
- Work closely with suppliers on the design, quality and delivery of seat parts.
- Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to meet project goals.
- Oversee the full life of the seat product—from concept, through production, to end-of-life.
- Make sure all designs meet safety regulation, performance specifications and customer requirements.
- Drive weight and cost reduction initiatives.
- Communicate product status to leadership.
Qualifications & Skills
- Demonstrated leadership skills, ability to work autonomously, excellent communication skills, positive attitude, willingness to learn, flexibility, team-player, and attention to detail.
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechatronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering from an ABET-accredited university.
- 5 years of engineering experience in the automotive industry.
- Familiarity with seat complete integration and components.
- Understanding components and physical integration in vehicle.
- Familiarity with FMVSS and ECE requirements.
- CAD Skills: Skilled in 3D modeling software (e.g., Teamcenter/NX).
- Design quality methods such as DFMEA to identify and prevent potential issues early.
- Experience with global project management and leading cross-functional teams.
Additional Info
At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way. We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!
FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused. We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Benefits
- Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
- Vision
- Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
- Long Term Disability (100% paid)
- Life Insurance (100% paid)
- 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
- Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
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