Description:
Automotive Component / Product Development Engineer
Job Details
Our client is an automotive OEM which produces vehicles in 14 countries and delivers them to customers in more than 150 markets worldwide. Electromobility, smart mobility and digital transformation are our core topics for the future. You can expect a diverse team that supports you and with whom you can grow together and develop your potential.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified & experienced candidates to fill the Component Engineer (Body) position in the Body/Electrical/Trim Styling Department - Product Engineering ( Kariega)
Brief Role Description
To ensure products are engineered to market requirements by designing, developing, testing and introducing locally manufactured components, by adapting and developing company sourced designs to be compatible with the company responsible markets environmental conditions and by issuing technical data in line with the correct component engineering level to meet the following criteria: Company products are built problem free/Regional requirements in terms of local content and technical support are met/Innovative and unique product feature development/Safety and reliability in service/Technical support for discontinued models (and still required in Africa).Technical development that adheres to the required Product Emergence Process/(PEP) manual
Key Duties
The release of Body Department components and systems. The resolution of design related problems on all locally manufactured platforms. Keep accurate record of part level and software built in production (Bill of Material). Co-ordination of testing and release of components & syst