Mechanical Product Engineer

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About this Position

The Connection Systems team has an exciting product engineering opportunity located in Warren, OH at our Champion Technical Center. Under the direction of a product engineering supervisor, the successful candidate will serve as a product engineer working on the next generation of high power connection systems for electric vehicles.

Responsibilities and Duties

• As a product engineer, you will own the mechanical/electrical design of our next generation high voltage products from preliminary concept to prototype to production. This includes:
  • Detailed design ownership - from concept to final design
  • Developing prototypes
  • Design/Product Validation (DV/PV)
  • High volume production implementation (PPAP)
• Being the product lead, you will engage in frequent multi-disciplinary collaboration with teams like CAD, simulation, materials, manufacturing, tooling, program management, supply chain, quality, operations, sales, and application engineering to ensure flawless product launch
• Work closely with suppliers/vendors to ensure parts meet product specifications
• Support customers on various production issues leveraging structured problem solving techniques and root cause analysis
• Proactively identify, prioritize, and drive resolution on program/customer issues.
• Support business pursuit activities and deliver high quality technical design presentations to Aptiv leadership and customers
• Collaborate with product line management on future requirements/voice of customer feedback/benchmarking data to help define product technology roadmap
• Support Aptiv global teams in other business units/regions
• Must be able to travel to suppliers and global Aptiv sites as needed

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• 3+ years' experience with automotive product design experience or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Experience in Design for Manufacturability (DFM), and Design for Assembly (DFA), statistical tolerance analysis techniques, functional dimensioning, and geometric tolerancing (GDT), with focus on high volume manufacturing
• Requires excellent communication skills (verbal and written) including emails, preparing slide presentations, and presenting technical concepts to multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience in driving challenging electro-mechanical architecture, managing trade-offs, design selection, and manufacturing constraints
• Proficiency in 3D CAD (NX preferred), wide knowledge of basic engineering materials and manufacturing processes
• Experience in prototyping quick-turn, preliminary concepts to enable architecture down-selects and data collection
• Working knowledge of FEA/moldflow/thermal analysis principles
• Creative problem solving, with experience in failure analysis, root cause investigation, and DOE creation
• Project/program management experience
• Strong results-orientation and execution characteristics
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with a strong ability to work with a team
• Ability to effectively organize, prioritize and accomplish multiple conflicting tasks, make intelligent, timely decisions and solve problems independently
• Resourcefully innovate and adapt in a rapidly changing environment

Traits We Seek

• Curiously investigate everything - ability to solve problems analytically, creatively and collaboratively
• Lead with confidence - thought leaders who empower those around them
• Learn by doing - an entrepreneurial mindset that's driven by hands-on experimentation
• Embrace resilience - seeing every challenge as a learning opportunity and invitation to grow

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