Senior Product Engineer

General Duties

• Follow IAC’s Code of Conduct.
• Ensure Design meets IAC and Customer engineering requirements/specifications
• Work with operations to ensure design is manufacturing feasible and meets quoted expectations
• Complete EBOM
• Execute program testing with passing results
• Customer interface

Specific Duties

• CAE/FEA
• Craftsmanship- AAR (Pre and post grain approval), color & harmony- Review parts with customer
• Customer CI (cost saves)- Development
• Customer Support- Develop and negotiate SOW's with customers and vendors
• Customer Support- Meetings (open issues, design reviews, engineering, dimensional, core, studio, AAR, launch readiness, etc.…)
• Design- Attachment Prove-out
• Design- Best practices for documentation, standard geometry, standard design practices, and common fasteners/adhesives/materials
• Design- Critical characteristics for component part designs
• Design- Define product requirements and assumptions
• Design- Design review's pre-production
• Design- Develop and engineer applicable commodity utilizing the Feasibility Hardpoint Management
• Design- Develop and execute within ED&T project budgets consisting of manpower, prototype tools, material, testing, etc.
• Design- Development and engineering of applicable Products (cost, weight, investment, tooling, timing, quality, feasibility, craftsmanship)
• Design- Document all deviations from customer requirements / guidelines
• Design- DTR's to import or export data from IAC
• Design- Ergonomic Compatibility
• Design- Incorporate IAC standard product & process designs including lessons learned from past programs
• Design- Master Sections
• Design- Reduce part variation
• DFM/DFA
• DFMEA
• Dimensional Management- GD&T, Special Characteristics and Measurement Points, and Fit & Finish
• DVP&R (plan and execution)
• EBOM (ECN)- Initial Release of new program awarded EBOM
• Engineering open issues and evidence documents
• Homologation Acceptance
• Launch support, including onsite at IAC and customer manufacturing locations
• Patent Clearance
• Serviceability- Service Requirements and Review
• Warranty- Approval of any OEM warranty acceptance form

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or Design with at least 3-5 years of plastic part (or headliner) design and engineering experience or
• Associate degree in a related field with at least 5-8 years of plastic injection molding / plastic part design experience or
• 8 + years of plastic design / plastic injection molding experience and related assembly or 8+ years of headliner manufacturing experience
• Instrument Panel, Console, Door, Hard Trim and/or Overhead Systems design & engineering experience
• Experience in a “Full Service Supplier” design and engineering programs
• Strong leadership, oral and written communication/presentation, organizational skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Applications
• Ability to work and interface with the customer for day to day activities without direct management supervision
• Ability to direct/guide design resources and tool shops to deliver a part that meets requirements
• Manufacturing, tooling, and operational knowledge
• CAD software experience (Catia or UGNX) is a plus but is not a requirement