Walk-in || Lighting Design Engineer

Description

• Ensure Exterior Lighting and vision component / system project, being consistent with quality, performance, time, and costs objectives and being supported by specialized areas.
• Ensure Cross functional team co-ordination on development and practices in a specific collaborative project with other regions.
• Ensure Vision and Lighting components from Design release to Launch with Design assurance plan (DAP) enabled.
• Homologation compliance for all the Vision components
• Create DFMEA, DAP, EDP, KBE for Vision components.
• Responsible for the Engineering, Design, Development, Timing and Product release of Exterior Lighting and vision components
• Other responsibilities will include managing supplier (internal/external) development activities, weight and cost reduction opportunities, development, and validation of assigned components.

Task / Deliverables

In the specific area of application can be responsible for:

• To manage technical content for Lighting and Vision, defining priorities to ensure that all program deliverables are met.
• Guide the technical solution definition based on vehicle targets.
• To coordinate the development of solutions as identified in concept phase up to industrialization, consistently with standardization plans and complexity management
• To ensure the design guidelines and rules application, confirming the robustness / correctness of the developed solutions (if applicable)
• For buy components, to support the supplier selection and work with the supplier team to make sure development will support all project milestones
• Manage cad step release activities according to program milestones and to ensure the accuracy / completeness of technical documentation released (if applicable).
• To ensure the quality / adequacy of the technical documentation (DVPR, FMEA, DFM, change management, source packaging etc.) about subsystems and components design in development and serial life process
• To support quality issues resolution and keep up to date all Design Practices and Performance Standards through the Lessons Learned (with other regional DRs and global team)
• Support benchmarking activities working with Global Technical Team, including competitive analysis.
• To implement DFSS methods / projects to each specific discipline.
• To lead weight reduction strategies related to each specific discipline (if applicable).
• To lead Value Optimization strategies related to each specific discipline.
• To lead the execution of component standardization and re-use strategies.
• To mentor and coach engineering team including and make sure that his team has the right skills
• To manage the Individual evaluations of all the team members performing annual interviews and talent review;ply base

5. COMMUNICATIONS & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

Internal:

External:

6. Performance INDICATORS (INDICATIVE):

7. QUALIFICATIONS, eXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

Qualifications/Skills and Experience:

• Education: B.E. / B. Tech. / M. E / M. Tech Mechanical / Automobile engineering.

Experience:

• 8 to 10 years of core experience in Lighting and Vision components Design and Development

Essential Skills

• Strong experience in Lighting and Vision System and components
• Vision components like IRVM, Glass, Cowl screen components
• Lighting Components like Forward Lighting, Rear lighting and Signal Lighting
• Strong hands-on experience in connector design / Pinouts / PCB / LED / Wiring harness selection criteria
• Strong hands-on experience in defining validation plan for EE components
• Effective interactions with Co-design supplier to ensure Vehicle Functional Objectives are achieved.
• Effective interaction with cross functional teams on issue resolutions.
• Good leadership with team building skills.
• Strong knowledge on Technical review, PPAP, Part testing, FMEA, Design kick-off and Design approval.

8. COMPETENCIES, CORE VALUES, BEHAVIOURS: -

• Exterior lamps, Glass, Plastics product, IRVM Product design
• Tooling knowledge of Vision components
• Ability to develop Lighting and Vision components from TKO to Launch and address post launch issues.
• OEM experience is added advantage.
• Homologation compliance is added advantage.
• Vision product problem solving experience