Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client operates in the automotive industry and specializes in the design, development, and manufacturing of luxury electric vehicles, with a strong focus on innovation, performance, and sustainability.
Job Title: Sr. Engineer, Steering Wheel Unit
Location: Southfield, MI
Duration: 4 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- We are currently seeking a Sr. Engineer, Steering Wheel Unit. This position requires an excellent understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals with a first experience in Automotive Engineering.
- Our ideal candidate exhibits a can-do attitude and approaches his or her work with vigor and determination.
- Candidates will be expected to learn quickly and to strive for perfection within a fast-paced environment.
The Role:
- Perform the design release of steering wheels across the whole product lifetime: from system specification development, sourcing, packaging, drawing release, design validation to ramp up, manufacturing support to post SOP maintenance
- Work closely with the Design Studio, Attributes (e.g. NVH, UX), Digital, and Interior engineering teams to develop the optimal solutions to fulfill the required features with the best balance of mass and cost.
- Manage Tier 1 suppliers for both engineering development and program timing. Function as the main point of contact for all supplier interfaces.
- Support restraint system integration work. Work closely with CAE team to provide design inputs and utilize CAE results to optimize the component design.
- Support crash tests and vehicle homologation. Make sure parts are supplied with right pedigrees for all crash test vehicles and other vehicle level validation and homologation needs.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Knowledge about the design and engineering of steering wheel, driver airbag, and/or interior or consumer mechatronics, direct experience in automotive OEM or Tier 1 suppliers
- Bachelor's degree and above in Mechanical Engineering or other related fields
- Deep understanding of Mechanical Engineering fundamentals: mechanics of materials, materials properties and engineering of materials, kinematics of solids, failure mechanics, and capacity to apply those fundamentals in problem solving.
- Knowledge about metal parts forming, plastic injection molding and associated design rules
- Experience using GD&T and tolerance stack analysis (ASME or ISO)
- Basic understanding of electronics and automotive networking
- Enough CAD skills to package the component models into vehicle models, check interfaces with the rest of the vehicle and make small modifications if necessary. The ideal candidate should possess enough CAD skills to modify Tier 1 CAD with change proposals and give proposals and packaging envelopes to Studio.
- Excellent people skills to manage suppliers, push the envelope to develop optimal technical solutions, ensure timely delivery of all components
- Have strong ethics and diligence
- Ability to make efficient reporting, both oral and written
Preferred
- 5+ years industry experience with >1 project from cradle to grave
- Experience in program management
- Experience in steering wheel, other restraints, and/or interior product manufacturing
- Deeper experience with Diagnostics, software updatable ECUs, Cybersecurity, software development
- Experience with systems engineering and requirement management
- Knowledge of CAE analysis and restraint system integration and optimization
- Knowledge of latest technology advancement in the field of passive safety and interior electronics
- Experience in crash tests
- Ability to articulate highly technical issues to audiences not in the crash safety field, such as top management, design studio, purchasing team, etc.
- Skills to manage suppliers, push the envelope to develop optimal technical solutions, ensure timely delivery of all components
- Experience using APQP processes (8D, DFMEA, DRBFM, GR&R, SPC)
- 6 sigma Green or Black Belt
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Southfield, MI |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $57.43 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- 8Dunmatched
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)unmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Automotive Engineeringunmatched
- Automotive Industryunmatched
- CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing)unmatched
- Change Requests/Ordersunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)unmatched
- Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)unmatched
- Device Driversunmatched
- Diagnostics Solutions/Softwareunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Electronicsunmatched
- Emerging Technologyunmatched
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancingunmatched
- ISO (International Organization for Standardization)unmatched
- Internet Securityunmatched
- Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Materials Engineeringunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Model Reviewunmatched
- OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)unmatched
- Plastic Injection Moldingunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Requirements Managementunmatched
- Six Sigma Black Beltunmatched
- Six Sigma Green Beltunmatched
- Software Administrationunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
- Sustainabilityunmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- Systems Engineeringunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Tolerance Analysisunmatched
- User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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