Overview:
Position is responsible for the design of Southco products to customer and Southco requirements with the goal to meet expectation in regards to cost quality and time lines. This includes developing proper designs in regards of DFMEA and Tolerance analysis, also including reviewing PFMEA, DFM (esp. tooling) and DFA. Product Engineer ensures that product development is carried out in conjunction with Southco's APQP procedure and Southco's/customer's PPAP elements. This position is to support Engineering Manager and Project Manager in fulfilling certain elements of the technical project management and product design activities.  Working close with NPD team for product development cycle to launch. Specialize in Position Control and other Southco product design development.
 
Responsibilities:
SPECIFICATION DEVELOPMENT:
1.Review customer specification.
2.Summarizes and clarifies customer specification, requirement, issues and outcome with customer and internal use.
3.Develop product specification together with KAM/customers and work on design and provides schedules. 
4.Ensures that customer parameter brief (CPB) in 1213 data is complete be updated to date. (Use as core tool)
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT, CAD DESIGN, DRAWING CREATION (design work with goal to meet customer and Southco specifications):
1.Designs (NX/TC) and creates concepts and production parts towards customer and internal specification considering program goals in the area of cost, quality and timelines (from initial acquisition to formal program to launch)
2.Ensures DFMEA/TA/DFA and DFM (esp. Die casting, Stamping and injection molding processes) are integrated in product design (in conjunction with NPD and manufacturing engineering support).
3.Creates component, assembly and trade drawings for internal and external use using GD&T, SC (special characteristics) and other tools for identifying customer and Southco requirement.
4.Makes complete tolerance analysis on all interfering features (sub assembly and customers application)
5.Supports supervisor and Project Management in initial technical feasibility studies, design concept presentation and cost estimate activites and working very close with NPD team in product development cycles.  Also work with Project Manager/Sales team from initial concept development during project/program acquisition and RFQ processes
TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGEMENT (Southco-customer-supplier), incl. quality documentation and considering goals for cost, quality and time lines:
1.Organizes and leads project meetings (technical aspects) to ensure program requirements are met, initiate team tasks (i.e. preparation of cost estimates, testing, quality tasks…) in regards to program needs
2.Organizes leads and manages Design FMEA activities. Ensures that D-FMEA is up-to-date throughout the program
3.Creates test plans on basis of customer and Southco requirements and supports product evaluation department to achieve results in a timely manner to the quality level required. Ensures that program/project requirements are met with designed product. Communicates design issues to DTECH management team.
4.Supports manufacturing engineering on technical issues (product specification, i.e. material selection, etc.), tooling requirements and vendor support.
5.Provides supply chain management team with relevant technical data so that sourcing procedures (RFQ) can be executed and successfully finished. Ensures that product and program specification changes are reported in time. 
6.Ensures that product development process follows APQP requirements. Maintains APQP documentation when required. Manages/maintains/supports required technical customer documentation (as per customer specification).

TECHNICAL CUSTOMER INTERACTION (engineer-to-engineer relationship):
1.Ensures strong relationship to customer engineering departments to be part of the overall customer program team
2.Visits appropriate customer engineers to check the project status in regards of the program/project  requirements  (application/product specification, cost - if applicable, quality, time lines)
3.Support Southco and customer thru required changes
LAUNCH AND AFTER LAUNCH SUPPORT:
1.Supports manufacturing, quality engineers in completing PPAP documentation
2.Ensures that prototype, pre-production and production (initial) build dates and requirements are met towards expected quality goals and time lines

DESIGN REVIEWS / KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER (Across SBU design teams):
1.Coaches new or younger team members to get them to the next level (technical aspects) to ensure they acquire basic Southco best practices in design & development of mods & custom products
2.Lead internal design reviews. Check documentations & designs are to the correct quality standards such as D-FMEA, drawings, tolerance analysis, test plan and are in line with customer specifications.
3.Supports Senior Engineering or Supervisor and Project Managers on technical issues  

Requirements: 
1. Engineering Degree,