Launch Product Engineer - Birmingham, West Midlands

Role: Launch Product Engineer

Salary: Up to £50K

Hours of work: 7:30 - 4pm Mon - Thurs - 7:30pm - 1:00pm Friday

Location: Birmingham

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Onsite parking
• Pension Contribution
• Employee assistance programme

MDE Group are looking for a Launch Product Engineer to join a leading Tier 1 Automotive supplier in the Birmingham area.

General Overview:

• To take full responsibility for a set of interior components from initial design concept, through detailed design, tooling and pre-production builds, to launch.
• Responsible for plant liaison and launch support, including ensuring that product designs consider design for assembly and manufacture.
• Monitoring and developing changes to the product initiated by the customer or the design team. Translation of these changes to production while maintaining the quality requirements and monitoring of timing and costs
• Ensuring that all Product /APQP requirements are covered.
• Liaises with the tooling and manufacturing specialists to ensure that the product is designed with manufacturing and assembly in mind.

Role Responsibilities:

• Customer/Supplier/Manufacturing plant liaison. Ensures that product designs consider:
• Design for assembly
• Design for manufacture
• Quality functional deployment
• Dimensional variation analysis (In conjunction with DVA specialist)
• Product performance requirements, Special and Critical characteristics
• Aftermarket assumptions and requirements
• Coordinate the feasibility response on Change Requests.
• Responsible for the process -from start to implementation- to prepare new parts/products to be ready for production.
• Responsible for implementation of technical changes to existing parts / products, defining and applying the most appropriate and cost-effective solutions and timings for these.
• Liaison between the customer and suppliers for matters regarding the engineering and implementation of new parts or product changes
• Responsible for all associated documentation (DFMEAs, SCSS, 2d Drawings etc.)
• Ensuring detailed specifications and tolerances are conveyed to sub suppliers
• Guarantee that product design guidelines in terms of assembly, production and quality have been considered.
• Support and lead problem solving activities which occur during the product development phase of the programme.
• Advise on technical requirements and consequences of engineering changes.
• Support customers in product development and participate in product development meetings to ensure that key elements of the quality process are taken into account.
• Participates in the departmental meetings
• Responsible for the engineering elements of customer part approval (PPAP).
• Support tool trials & tool sign off
• Data driven approach to product design incorporating finite element and dimensional variation analysis to ensure robust designs.
• Support VAVE activities
• Support Program RFQs

Required Experience:

• Master or Bachelor in a technical department.
• Proven related experience in engineering of automotive interior components/systems.
• Experience in a (plastics) production and / or an assembly environment, linked to automotive.
• Working knowledge of job-related technical skills: GD&T, DFM/DFA, CAE/FEA, CAD, FMEA, DVP&R.
• Personal competences : communicative, assertive, organisationally and analytically strong, problem solver, team player that is also able to work independently and in stressful circumstances.
• Languages : English is a must, German an advantage.
• Computer knowledge : Windows Office, drawing programs, CAD.
• Additional knowledge : knowledge of injection moulding, tooling, Pro Link.
• Awareness of continuous improvement.
• Able to travel within EU, in order to visit both customers and plants at locations throughout EU.

Please note you must be located and have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this position