Senior Product Engineer

Senior Product Engineer

Contract - Midlands

Main purpose of the job:

• Drives the best design and engineering solutions for systems and modules.
• Ensures all Product/APQP requirements are met.
• Manages engineering design activities for quality, feasibility, cost, and customer requirements.
• Works with tooling specialists to ensure designs are robust for production.
• Engages engineering teams in Product Development Team processes.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Manages engineering budget, product cost, timing, and quality.
• Follows RASIC in GDLS and company policies.

Main missions and results:

• Supervises design and product engineering.
• Liaises with customers, suppliers, and manufacturing plants.
• Ensures designs meet styling, technical requirements, assembly, and manufacturing needs.
• Implements quality deployment and provides FEA and dimensional analysis data.
• Supports tool timing, trials, and sign-off.
• Ensures robust processes prior to tool shipment with cross-functional teams.
• Applies cost-effective technical solutions and engages subject matter experts.
• Resolves design issues in cooperation with customer engineering teams.
• Implements Artifex best practices and supports New Product Introduction (NPI).
• Participates in model year changes and APQP gate reviews.
• Supports cost estimates and ensures recoverable costs are captured.
• Manages customer communications, VAVE, and program RFQs.

Preferred skills and experience:

• Bachelor’s or Diploma in automotive, plastics, or mechanical engineering.
• Experience in automotive interiors, Cockpit, Instrument Panel, and Passenger Airbag development.
• Cradle-to-grave project experience including process, tool, and program launch.
• Knowledge of surface development, CAD tools (Enovia, Tetra, Kisters, JT2Go), and engineering standards.
• Strong management, interpersonal, and technical skills (GD&T, DFM, DFA, CAE/FEA, CAD, FMEA, DVP&R).