Design Engineer & Capacity Planner-PLG

About the Role

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Key Responsibilities

• Creates/develops/realizes designs in CATIA V5 3D and 2D within the agreed time and good quality.
• Applies design calculations inline with mechanical engineering principles to support Power lift gate (PLG) design activities.
• Supports capacity planning for PLG assembly lines for regions.
• Independent creation of designs, assembly drawings, single part drawings, bill of materials for new and series production products in accordance with:
• Brose standards and procedures
• Customer specification and design standards
• Use of standard components
• Reuse of designs and parts
• Brose production feasibilities and standards
• External Know How (suppliers) and internal Know How.
• Understands the technical aspects of the task by applying know-how gained in mechanical engineering.
• Able to do design calculations (static and dynamic loads, deformation, pressure, moments, stresses, etc.).
• Independent execution of basic technical calculations (e.g. GD&T, Stack-up) and simulations (e.g. deformation, loading, kinematics).
• Initiation of more complex calculations together with specialists (e.g. FEA, Mold flow) and interpretation of results together with specialists.
• Supports design being made available in accordance with lead engineers with releases (V0, V1, V2 release, customer sample requests, test sample requests, etc.).
• Prepares capacity planning dashboards to propose strategic investments.
• Improves utilization of installed equipment by suggesting project allocations for production lines across Asia.
• Supports project management teams to secure availability of sub-components for new acquisitions.
• Prepares capacity overview for PLG assembly lines for management review.
• Performs analysis of actual delivered quantities and planning quantities to support forecasting & realistic planning.
• Analyses capacity for PLG assembly lines and provides data for line selection for new acquisitions and existing projects.
• Considers all valid procedures, job instructions, and organizational instructions.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong CATIA V5 2D, 3D and Assembly.
• Good proficiency in MS-Excel.
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Design calculations of static and dynamical loads, deformation, pressure, etc. – thorough understanding of engineering mechanics, materials, strength of materials, machine design and theory of machines and mechanisms.
• Knowledge in sheet metal and plastic design.
• Microsoft Office tools.
• Strong communication skills.
• DMU (optional and advantageous).

Qualifications

• BE/BTech and ME/MTech – Mechanical engineering or equivalent.