Product Engineer
Dana
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- OEM Auto / Auto Ancillary (tier 1) Specific skills / Personal attributes Experience in driveline components/systems design and development is required Sense of responsibility, investigation, and diagnosis
- Must have excellent interpersonal skills to work with people at all levels within and outside Dana in a professional manner.
- Ability to travel-domestic and international (
- Demonstrated ability to train subordinates
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of deliverables and lead resolution of issues
- Must have strong project management experience to organize multiple responsibilities and meet multiple deadlines
- Must be a self-directed, motivated, and organized individual who is willing to accept multiple tasks & responsibilities
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills with ability to successfully function in and lead cross-functional teams Excellent customer relationship skill.
- Awareness of IATF 16949 Quality management systems is required.
- Develop product design proposals including system calculations to meet customer specifications and test requirements
- Utilize the resources of the various support groups to provide an optimized design which can be manufactured economically and according to the project timing requirements
- Follow Program Management and Stage Gate development processes to meet project goals including budget, timing, and quality of delivery for identified projects. Document lessons learned and update procedures as applicable
- Lead product development and validation activities including: DFMEA, design reviews, drawing and model creation (CAD), finite element analysis (FEA), prototype builds, DV/PV testing, NVH verification, design for manufacturing, stack-ups, and key supplier development
- Shall be able to create workflow (EWO, SR etc.) in PLM system
- Analyze test data to verify conformance to requirements and establish action plans as needed
- Prepare and present damage analysis and other various engineering analysis to demonstrate the integrity of product prior to test
- Support Advanced Program Quality Planning (APQP) activities
- Develop and maintain prototype and test validation plans (DVP&R) to meet key customer program timing
- Assist and lead root cause analysis of technical issues
- Provide technical support to customer during all phases of vehicle development including presourcing, vehicle validation, product validation, vehicle start of production (SOP), and post-SOP
- Communicate all engineering and development issues as needed to Dana internal functions - Program Management, Sales, Manufacturing, Quality, Warranty, and Engineering Management
- Identify competitive benchmarking needs and work in partnership with benchmarking organization to collect needed data
- Develop and support cost savings initiatives and proposals. Propose and critique design concepts for cost savings initiatives with issue resolution.
- Prepare and conduct technical presentations (Customer and Dana internal)
- Analyze warranty data and develop effective counter measures
- Communicate all engineering and development issues as needed to Dana internal functions including but not limited to; Program Management, Sales, Quality, Warranty, & Engineering Management
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