Project Engineer - Seating

Job Title: Project Engineer (Seating)
Location: Coventry
Rate: Up to £35.00 per hour

Job Outline

As a Seating Project Engineer, you will design automotive seating system components to ensure compliance to customer and industry standards.

Main Responsibilities

Reports to the Project Manager and/or Lead Engineer, and is responsible for:

• Technical Design and conformity to package and customer specifications.
• Drawing Release with 'freeze' against each Programme build milestone.
• DFMEA creation and update and release against the milestones.
• All design changes post initial prototype tool release to use Change Management Process. PLM system.
• All Customer requests to deviate away from initial Programme Assumptions / Technical file to be approved via Change Management Process PLM system.
• Maximum 10 day turn-around of PLM to solve testing related issues / concerns .
• Medium and short term CAD resource management, ensuring CAD Designers workload / priorities match those of the Programme Timeline and Customer Releases.
• Support Plant issues when proven root cause is base design (not quality / process)
• Customer liaison and reporting of project technical issues and potential resolutions.
• Sub-Supplier Design Management - Data release and Control with documented status and actions on a regular basis.
• Generation of VE/VA brainstorm ideas - Facilitate the workshops.
• Progress VE/VA ideas to engineered / feasible solutions with detail drawings and prototype trial samples.
• Management of Test and Development DV / PV and virtual CAE analysis.
• Presentations to Lear and Customer Senior Management.
• Open Issues - Single list with time bound response including all known problems with priorities.
• Checking of all data prior to Release (to customer / supplier or other interested parties)

Essential Skills and Qualifications:

• Engineering Degree or equivalent (or relevant experience)
• Excel / Word / Powerpoint
• To be able to read, check and correct detail Drawings
• Practical application of GD&T
• Detailed seating (seat structures and seat complete) engineering knowledge

Desirable Skills and Qualifications:

• Microsoft Project experience
• DFMEA - Qualified to 'User level'
• Automotive Seating experience
• Problem Solving skills
• Appreciation of CAE techniques and Process.
• Understanding of Renault and Nissan release systems.
• VE/VA techniques (cost pareto etc)
• Understanding of CAD systems (NX and Catia)

If you are interested in this position, please APPLY NOW. For more information, please contact Lois Weston at Jonathan Lee Recruitment on 01384446119.