Senior Lead Engineer – Body

Senior Lead Engineer – Body

Requirements

• Accredited Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field with eight (8) or more years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Leadership of the Oshkosh Body Engineering activities for assigned components as systems (i.e. underbody, front end, or upper body).
• Accepts and delegates authority, establishes priorities for work delegated to others.
• Coordinate and manage internal and external resources to accomplish body engineering and program objectives.
• Plan and Lead body systems Product Engineering activities.
• Create body design and development timing plans and associated status reporting.
• Create and maintain body design and engineering development plans and status reports such as design checklists, attribute development status (DVP&R), tooling lead times and kickoff, open issue lists and trends,…etc.
• Utilize appropriate engineering problem solving and quality tools and techniques to ensure robust design (DFMEA, DVP&R, 8D, DoE, Fault trees, SPC, VSA, GD&T, DFM,… etc).
• Development of body engineering function processes, working practices, methods tools, and techniques.
• Establish and lead body and cross functional design reviews for assigned systems.
• Develop options, evaluate competing design solutions and selection of feasible design solutions that provide the best match for body and vehicle targets.
• Prepare body status and open issues reports to support design recommendations and program milestone review as required.
• Work with manufacturing engineering, purchasing, quality, suppliers, and program team to develop robust body engineering solutions and release for manufacture.
• Ensure designs meet internal and external customer requirements, statutory requirements, and corporate objectives.
• Represent body engineering across new product development projects.
• Lead body systems problem solving investigations (such as test issues, manufacturing feedback, etc.) and ensure route cause understanding to develop effective countermeasures to close open issues.
• Provide leadership to staff including resource planning, scheduling, and administration to ensure program success.
• Supports the management of project scope, cost, timeline, and risk management.
• Support the identification and coordination of all project scope change requests for approval.
• Manage documentation for project planning, design briefs, requirements management, status reporting, project communication, quality assurance, research, and historical records.
• Maintain and apply knowledge in latest body engineering technologies to evaluate and integrate new technologies into Oshkosh.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Regular attendance is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with automotive body engineering, designing, developing and release of body components and assemblies.
• Detail understanding of body engineering tools and techniques (CAD, BOM management, PLM and product development systems).
• Experienced in the use engineering problem solving and quality tools such as, DFMEA, DVP, 8D, DoE, Fault trees, SPC, VSA, GD&T, … etc.
• Good knowledge and familiarity with FEA, test and validation techniques.
• Experienced in widely used body materials Steel, Aluminum (Plastics and composites an advantage).
• Experienced in widely used body joining technologies stamping, casting, extrusion, bending, roll forming, molding, etc.
• Experienced in industry standards, regulations, requirements and associated attribute development (Strength, durability, crash, … etc.).
• Experienced in CAD (Catia).
• Advanced knowledge of body engineering new product development processes (From concept through launch).
• Good knowledge of body component and systems cost and timing characteristics.
• Advanced degree
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Experience with Jira.
• Experience across different body architectures (Uniboy, Body on frame) and segments (Passenger car, light and heavy truck, vocational vehicles, … etc.)