Sr. Design Release Engineer, Interior, Center Console

8+ years of experience

Responsibilities:

• Development and Design of Center Consoles of premium vehicles
• Lead of the full design phase from the first sketch to the final component release
• Track of built issues resulted in design changes to ensure technical expertise
• Ensure all geometric requirements for each milestone delivery are analyzed and met
• Interface with studio, packaging, advanced engineering, manufacturing, and supplier activities to develop optimal design solutions
• Creation of bill of materials and indication of cost down potentials and manufacturing improvements
• Create CAD surfaces and solids, GD&T, and fastening design using Catia V6
• Utilize CAD methodologies, study files, slab models, knowledge-based engineering
• Support of the global purchasing group in the phase of supplier nomination and decision making to ensure best qualities for every component of the Instrument Panel
• Global travels are required to the US headquarter, commodity suppliers and contractors

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of demonstrated experience as a detail-oriented Interior Components and Systems development lead for Center Consoles
• Knowledge and understanding of automotive Interior Components and Systems industry benchmark, trends and supplier competencies
• Experience creating/improving/establishing technical product specifications and timelines to achieve an accelerated development cycle towards SOP
• Vehicle and product launch experience
• Experience creating complex CAD models in CATIA V6 quickly and efficiently while holding CAD part, tree, links & publications to an excellent standard
• Proven experience in interior process, such as wrapping, injection molding, painting, compression molding and other state of the art manufacturing processes
• Proven experience in common structural part manufacturing processes such as stamping, extrusion and casting
• Proven experience in geometrical dimensioning and tolerance in detail through applying tolerance targets into component locators, attachment methods and overall gap and flushness requirements
• Strong in engineering fundamentals to create solutions that are not yet state of the art
• Experienced in modal analysis, finite element method analysis and computer fluid dynamics

Advantageous:

• Ability to lead a cross-functional team of different cultures and nationalities
• Fluent German and English, a third language is preferred
• Work ethic that results in overall best solutions even when required in continuous changing and high-pressure situations
• One full program cycle experience from concept to production launch in automotive Interior Components and Systems

Education Requirements:
Master of Science, Diplom-Ingenieur or other Engineering Degree