Technical Leader - Durability

Role & responsibilities

Carry out pre-processing, simulation setup, post-processing & report preparation as per the requirement

• Input verification, effort estimation and activity planning with respect to due dates and related communication to AFO/Metiers
• Support draft of the design considering FEA and Durability targets (both FCM and Customer)
• Understand the engineering BOM & drawings and prepare FE models
• Integrate provided FE models from supplier, customers, and competitors
• Create FE models according to measured or supplied data, and ensure mesh quality as per FCM/customer specifications
• Validate the integrity of the FE model (by modal analysis) to meet targets for quality and delivery metrics
• Define boundary conditions, loads and simulation parameters as per FCM/customer specification or measurement data
• Perform FE-simulations for the design validation
• Verify the simulation output and simulation results
• Technical report preparation and presentation to Team manager/AFO
• Work actively in the extended product development core team
• Support and provide simulation results for measurement and testing & update the FE-simulation based on measurement and test results
• Provide design solutions for product improvement with respect to durability and NVH limits and targets
• Maintain, track quality & on time delivery metrics for all work requests of self
• Quality review of the simulations executed by FEA engineers, GETs and PGETs
• Support and / or active participation in international professional networks in FCM (incl. documentation)
• Identify and share the lessons learned and best practices
• Support in preparation of training plan, execute trainings, measure effectiveness
• Mentor team members and Interns
• Prioritize quality and delivery failures, performing Line QRCI to identify root causes
• Prepare preventive and corrective actions plan to address the root causes derived from Line QRCi
• Executing preventive and corrective actions
• Support standardization, harmonization and documentation of calculation methodologies, including working procedures.
• Participate in deriving KPIs and priorities to improve performance of group/team/BTC

• Support AFO/Metiers for development and / or introduction of new calculation methods and workflows in the field of thermo-fluid dynamics for product development according to PMS / IPMS
• If necessary, participate in the optimization of IT hardware structures and simulation processes / IT environment as well as their implementation
• Effective utilization of the resources
• Assessment of new software and updates
• Market investigation concerning products, tools and technologies

Preferred candidate profile

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have:

Bachelors or Masters in Mechanical/Automobile Engineering or equivalent

Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in the Finite Element Analyses using Nastran, Abaqus & Hyper Works. Preferable experience in automotive domain
• 7+ years of experience in providing design concepts, developing methodologies, standards, and writing procedures. Experience in simulation and methodological layout of exhaust system components considering FEA & Durability

Skills and competencies: Software:

• Pre & postprocessing software Hypermesh, Minitab
• FEA/Durability software tools (Nastran, Abaqus, Optistruct, nCode)
• Desirable - programming languages - TCL-TK, Python, Perl, java
• MS-office & Unix / Linux applications