EDS 3D CAD Design Engineer

Detailed Description From Employer:

Position Title: EDS 3D CAD Design Engineer

Duration: Contract

Location: Whitley

Role Purpose:

• As an EDS Design Engineer within the Clients' PVO Team, you will be involved at all stages of the design and development process.
• You will liaise directly with customers, and the cross-engineering teams, to provide and deliver effective engineering solutions.
• Responsible for the inception, development and release 3D Harness design and packaging across a broad range of company prototype projects.

Role Attributes:

Key Aspects of the role

• Create 3D CAD for LV and HV Harnesses (CATIA V6) Electrical and Electronic installations collaborating closely with Electrical, Chassis, and Powertrain design teams.
• Design and package EDS, Wire Harnesses and associated components to required electrical modelling standard.
• Prepare documentation for internal and customer use for electrical installations
• Support virtual build events and packaging activities to ensure the harness meets cost & weight targets while ensuring design robustness
• Oversee the release of parts and assembly structures into the bill of materials, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
• Support customer compatibility reviews to check EDS system design and follow up required actions
• Support harness design reviews, prototype builds and test boards for EDS system issues.
• Providing innovative ideas and analyse benchmarked data to support the business
• Ensure project documentation is correctly managed, maintained and released in accordance with the Clients' processes and standards.
• Take Responsibility to ensure harness design meets customer design requirements e.g. design manual, Electrical & Electronic
• Distribution System (EEDS) guidelines, SDS.
• Manage project level engineering change control activity.
• Generation and control of project engineering electrical BOM's.
• Delivery of engineering tasks in line with project milestones.
• Lead prototype builds and provide engineering support for vehicle/system commissioning, fault finding and diagnosis.

Technical Summary

• To have an excellent knowledge of general automotive engineering vehicle technologies covering:
• Experienced and certified using Catia V5 and Teamcenter
• Experienced in part Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance
• LV Electrical systems.
• Connection systems, distribution, harnessing, cabling & data communication systems.
• Sound knowledge of electrical principles, materials selection and manufacturing techniques.
• To have a good knowledge of Electric and Hybrid vehicle technologies, including:
• HV batteries, contactors, fuses, distribution, HVIL, PDU's
• Motors, inverters, chargers, converters.

Health, Safety & Environmental

• Ensures Environmental Health & Safety policy is always adhered to.
• Promotes Environmental Health & Safety awareness.
• Responsible for adhering to EHS procedures & policies to ensure compliance.

Qualifications, Functional Experience & Skills

• A degree or similar in an electrical engineering discipline
• A minimum of 8 years' experience from an automotive background
• Previous proven experience with designing/draughting All types of Harnesses (HV, 48V, 12V and comms).
• Excellent knowledge of harness assembly processes.
• System design from concept to delivery, with a good understanding of electrical design requirements.
• Experience in automotive electrical systems design and prototype development.
• Experience in HV and LV EDS development - 3D Wiring harness routing
• Proven track record in the effective delivery of technical objectives to quality targets and milestones.

System Knowledge

• Advanced capabilities in Microsoft Office and applications.
• Experience of electrical system Capital software

Personal Attributes

• Self-motivated, creative and adaptive team player.
• Willingness to take on roles, responsibilities and challenges required to achieve company goals and objectives.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Able to Prioritize and organize project workloads, schedules and tasks.
• Strong presentation, report writing and communication skills.