Senior Product Engineer

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Create APQP and engineering documents.
• Support design development from initial concept through SOP.
• Attend customer build events and root cause issues.
• Negotiate with customers on product design, styling and engineering requirements while ensuring manufacturability and profitability.
• Provide design proposals for Automotive Interior/Exterior Plastic parts (Grille/Bumper/Spoiler/IPs/Console/Register) or other components utilizing 2D & 3D design tools.
• Complete benchmarking examinations of competitor’s components and emerging technology.
• Provide technical reports, open items list and presentation package to customers & internal departments.
• Improve designs & define new design guidelines to be adopted by the group to improve quality and productivity.
• Create and maintain records of product development as required by our quality system.
• Work with customers and other internal groups to resolve component functional problems.
• Develop drawings as necessary and participate in Design FMEA, as required.
• Continue to improve the product development process to provide a higher level of service to our customers.
• Demonstrate basic project management expertise.
• Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability and safety.
• Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.
• Collaborate with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.
• Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
• Drive optimization by being actively engaged in continuous improvement efforts (kaizen).

Required Education, Experience, And Skills

• Certifications and Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field, or equivalent years of experience.
• Experience: 4 to 8 Years of experience in Engineering.
• Bilingual in English and Japanese.
• Strong understanding of Interior/Exterior Plastic component design with deep expertise in injection molding, tooling, paint/plating processes and wrapping.
• Requires material engineering knowledge related to plastic design and molding.
• Knowledge of Moldflow CAE Analysis, GD&T, and tolerance stack-up studies.
• Experience designing moving mechanisms is preferred.
• Requires DRBFM/DFMEA, supplier management, and launch readiness skills for high volume manufacturing.
• Familiarity with automotive standards, concepts and practices is required.
• Previous experience with injection molded plastic commodities is preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to sit.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Technology Competencies

• Proficiency using Microsoft Office Suites 2016 or newer.

Additional Competencies

• Ability to consistently meet deadlines.
• Effective verbal, non-verbal, negotiation and written communication skills.
• Absolutely professional in interacting with internal and external customers.
• Effective attention to detail, problem solving, analytical and organizational skills.
• Strong organizational skills, analytical thinking skills, problem solving and project scheduling skills.