The company
our client is a mid-size highly niched global company who designs and manufactures leading audio visual, mobile communication devices, automotive, and electronics with a full line of electronic components, remote controls, and touch panels, as well as a variety of custom products that require a high level of precision, performance and reliability. As a result of aggressive growth in the electric automotive sector, they are in need of a senior mechanical design engineer who will be a key contributor to a r&d design engineering team in their large state-of-the-art tijuana manufacturing and r&d site who is successfully designing world class electronic products for oem's on a global scale. Positions reports to the r&d mechanical design engineering supervisor.
the position
essential job duties and responsibilities:
1. conducts client requirement studies and validations studies
2. elaborate drawings and sketches of new designs for quoting purposes
3. creates mechanical bom's and their associated drawings.
4. assists purchasing department with technical support in purchasing negotiations and in resolving problems in the supply chain.
5. assists quality department in evaluating parts and suppliers.
6. participates in meetings with clients and suppliers.
7. elaborates boundary diagrams and fmea's.
8. conducts mechanical design of products and mechanisms.
9. creates mechanical drawings in 3d, and 2d for quoting and manufacturing.
10. elaborates technical reports of completed daily tasks
11. creates solutions to design issues and problems.
12. builds prototypes and analyzes functionality.
13. personal follow-up of production runs during product development stages.
14. conducts performance analysis and elaborates product specifications
15. suggests verification methods and tests product performance.
16. conducts root cause analysis.
17. performs mechanical, optical and acoustic simulations.
18. reviews tooling design.
19. elaborates meeting minutes and follow-up on all pending's.
20. elaborates purchase orders for components, materials and services during product development stages.
21. participates in product development and new product implementation meetings.
22. elaborates prototypes and validation products.
23. conducts statistical analysis of product and processes and confirms specifications.
24. assists in continuous improvement processes and problem-solving activities.
25. assists quality with defect analysis.
26. assists manufacturing engineering department with fabrication and measurement methods.
27. assists production with production methods (standard operating procedures).
28. performs all duties as assigned.
the candidate
experience, qualifications and education:
29. 4+ years of experience in plastics part design/ rubbers and/or metal parts design, preferably for automotive, interior component design but open to consumer electronics.
30. bachelor university degree in electromechanical engineering or mechanical engineering is preferred or other engineering disciplines with equivalent experience. ("pasante" is acceptable).
31. other engineering degree areas can apply as long as they fulfill the profile required.
32. able to develop full product with little or no guidance
33. mechanical product definition and product validation process (preferred).
34. experience in parts and process standardization
35. able to perform product sustaining activities (eco, tdr, paf, caf, pfmea, dfmea, dfm, and other documents related)
36. able to comply with agency regulation such as: iec/ astm/ iso. Ul
37. experience designing with creo surfaces / parametrics (specially surfaces and windchill). Solidworks. (examination will be required).
38. experience with plastic injection molded process (required) and extrusion dies (preferred) and tooling.
39. experienced with troubleshooting of injection molded parts and final products.
40. knowledge of dfmea/ pfmea
41. experience with gd&t and tolerance analysis.
42. knowledge of finite element simulations
43. requires valid visa to travel abroad up to 10%.
44. fluent in english (85%) and spanish.
preferred:
45. experience in product validation (for consumer electronics or automotive) is a plus.
46. familiarity or experience in apqp or ts16949 is desirable.
47. experience with automotive industry is highly preferred.
48. supervisory experience is a plus.
skills required:
49. able to work with multi-disciplinary teams
50. collaborative work style and team player.