Seat Plastics Design Engineer

About the Role Brose seeks a seat plastics design engineer to design and develop complete seat plastics, leading design activities and collaborating with customers, suppliers, and internal teams to deliver cost-effective, high-quality solutions from pre-development to series production.

What You'll Do

• Design and development of complete seat plastics, creating and realizing CAD designs in CATIA V5.
• Develop concepts per customer or internal requirements and translate into qualitative, cost-effective designs.
• Perform packaging and kinematic studies of seat components and vehicle environment; produce envelope curves and relevant kinematic functions.
• Create and dimension component connections, define reference point systems; prepare assembly drawings, single part drawings, and BOMs for new and serial production per Brose standards and customer specs.
• Coordinate design concepts, document design development steps, and prepare design documents for approvals.
• Interface with customers and suppliers to agree on design details; collaborate with team engineers and test engineers during product development.
• Manage design development steps end-to-end from pre-development to series production and ensure deadlines.
• Ensure compliance with Brose standards and use of standard components; apply GD&T and consider manufacturing feasibility; integrate supplier know-how where appropriate.
• Capable of calculating functional dimensions and tolerances based on testing and simulation results.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech.) in Mechanical or Automotive Engineering or equivalent; 4-8 years of automotive seat plastics design experience.
• In-depth knowledge/experience in automotive seat plastics design; complete seat design CAD using CATIA V5 (3D and 2D).
• Proficient in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T); basic design calculations for static/dynamic loads, deformation, pressure, mechanism travel, etc.
• Knowledge of seat structure design is an added advantage.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office; good communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently or in a small team; strong collaboration with engineers and test teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with seat structure design.
• Additional automotive systems knowledge is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary not disclosed. Benefits not specified in the posting.