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Product Engineer

Lear Corporation

Product Engineer

Vance, AL
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    JIT Engineer (Plant)

    Seating Systems Division

     

     

    RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE JIT ENGINEER

    Seat design

    Own all seat design aspects of a particular vehicle (or row of seats)

    • Responsible for robust and complete design
    • Responsible for accuracy of data, and drawings
    • Responsible for seat appearance
    • Responsible for Seat BOMs
    • Responsible for change control

    Follow engineering best practices

    Design within program timing deliverable

    Maintain Lear PLM, Profile, and LPMP systems

    Provide guidance to Designers and support Engineers (Structure, Foam, Trim)

    Maintain engineering open issues lists and provide design solutions for closure

    Address problems using engineered solutions

    • FEA, DFM, DFMEA
    • Design analysis
    • Conduct design reviews and engineering appearance reviews.       Maintain open issues as a result of these reviews

    Interface with OEM customer

    • Support customer program meetings (Sindelfingen, Germany & Vance, AL)

    Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure designs are feasible

    Support Program Management, Sales, and Quality

    Plant Engineering

    • Drive/Support in root cause analysis
    • Liaison with Development Team, discuss design proposals/changes (in this case Germany Sindelfingen)
    • Support the implementation of product changes in the plant
    • Contact to customer for engineering on site (Mercedes Vance, AL)
    • Support implementation of model year facelifts

    REQUIREMENTS FOR THE JIT ENGINEER

    • Experience in automotive seating
    • Possess strong verbal/written communication skills
    • Proficient with MS office software. Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Experience with MS Project is a plus
    • Willingness and ability to travel for extended periods to Lear plants / customer plants

    EXPERIENCE / EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

    • Bachelors Degree in Engineering
    • German language not a must, but beneficial

    Required Skills Required Experience

  • Industry
    Manufacturing