Headrest Engineer

On-Site role

Job Description:

• This is an on-site role. Full time participation at client, Foster City is required.
• You will work closely with multi-functional teams including Industrial Design, Vehicle Engineering, Purchasing, Reliability, Packaging, Quality, Manufacturing & Safety.

Key Qualifications:

• Outstanding skills and experience leading automotive seating design and development projects.
• Demonstrable excellence designing seat components, particularly headrest assemblies.
• Emphasis on seating structures and complete seat expertise demonstrated over multiple projects.
• Must be able to demonstrate the ability to design systems to meet seat headrest requirements:
• FMVSS requirements.
• Safety requirements, including design considerations that influence HIC scores.
• IIHS requirements.
• Comfort requirements.
• Modal/NVH requirements.
• Operational strength.

General requirements:

• Strong analytical/problem solving skills and general mechanical engineering analysis.
• Strong materials knowledge, good understanding of different materials and grades.
• Ability to articulate design issue quantitatively both verbally and with documentation.
• Solid 3-D CAD skills, including significant experience with Catia v6. 
• Seat system packaging, kinematics and modeling capability necessary.
• Demonstrated ability in metallic and composites part design.
• Working knowledge of finite element analysis theory and general mechanical engineering analysis.
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM), and Design for Assembly (DFA), statistical tolerance analysis techniques, functional dimensioning, and geometric tolerancing, preparing and checking 2D drawings.
• Experience in a team environment and being self-motivated to close design issues.
• Flexibility and comfort working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that is prone to change.

Description:

• Overall mechanical component and system design from concept to shipment. 
• Developing design and analysis capability in house. 
• Documenting and communicating designs, trade-offs, and status updates. 
• Developing test and validation plans.

Education & Experience:

• BSME required, MS preferred.

About us:
At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R - Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.

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