Eligibility for Volvo Recruitment Drive:

• BE/ B.Tech/ ME/ M.Tech/ MS in Mechanical/Automobile Engineering with at least 2 years of relevant experience. Automobile/Commercial vehicle OEM experience preferred.

Group description

Interior Living Group is a design team within Cabin Engineering Department of Vehicle Engineering, GTT Bangalore. We are responsible to design & develop components like headliner, wall trims, bunk heads, storages, sunvisors, floor carpets, surface materials etc in cabin interiors for various global brands of Volvo. Due to a unique mix of competencies, several group members have global responsibilities in their respective areas and participate in company-wide module teams in order to align technical specifications, enhance quality and build value for all the truck brands. We are looking for an Associate Engineer to join our team.
Scope of Work

Associate Engineer has a key role in performing the operational activities needed to ensure cross functionally anchored concepts and technical solutions meeting defined product QDCF targets. The role covers all aspects of product development process -from advanced engineering and concept generation to detailed development, industrialization and product maintenance. The deliverables are to a large extent driven by Gates, Releases and Design loops.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible to secure operation activities required for end to end development of products / parts and release of the solutions into the system with complete product ownership and tackling quality issues effectively
• Perform design, testing/validation of components within area of assignment to fulfil the project & Product Quality, Delivery, Cost, Feature targets
• Generate Value Engineering and Value Analysis (VA/VE) and Continuous Improvement (CI) ideas to reduce product costs and drive/support implementation as needed.
• Assist commodity leads in analysing component parts and assemblies to determine the best course of action required to resolve actual or potential problems and implement cost effective solutions.
• Support packaging engineers in packaging and installation tasks (e.g. technical reports, packaging investigations, DMU utilization)
• Assist commodity leads to define Level 4 (component/system) time plan including the most important cross functional milestones using APQP as the supporting process.
• Responsible to drive Cross functional activities to resolve developmental issues and achieve set project deliverables.
• Must have Global mind-set to collaborate and work with engineers mostly at Cab, EEE, Product Design, Verification & Validation teams both locally as well as globally within Volvo as well as with suppliers and technology partners depending upon scope.
• Assist commodity leads in development of engineering process & method documents (TR, guidelines, rules etc.)
• Contribute towards knowledge management within the area of assignment.
• Ability to drive innovation within the team and take up intellectual property initiatives in the team and independently
• Problem solving abilities to assist commodity leaders in running thorough investigations to conduct root cause analysis for failures and deliver a robust solution as a counter-measure to address customer issues

Skills:

• Experience of designing & developing plastic components for automotive applications.
• Experience of product development within exterior/interior environment of commercial vehicles or passenger cars
• Working knowledge in one CAD package, preferably CATIA V5/PTC CREO
• Experience of working with suppliers to lead the development activities with a good level of product development cycle understanding.
• Possess basic knowledge in Problem solving techniques by effectively using Quality tools such as 8D/ FTA.
• Basic knowledge of sheet metal design and development is preferred.
• Knowledge about Commercial Vehicle regulations and Certification activities is preferred.
• Basic tooling knowledge (Die, Press/Injection Mold/Vacuum forming/Die-cast) is preferred.
• Interior domain knowledge and experience with Volvo tools and processes is preferred.

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