Valeo Thermal Commercial Vehicles South Africa (Valeo) is looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer to be based in our Johannesburg site. The candidate must meet the following criteria:
Job Description
- As the Mechanical Design engineer, you will form part of a multidisciplinary engineering team reporting to the R & D Manager. The incumbent will be a qualified engineer with experience in production design and project management of the R&D projects.
- As the design engineer you will work with the engineering team by drawing on their insight to evaluate and contribute your mechanical knowledge to conceptualize new R&D projects. You will also assist by coordinating and administering team members tasks for each project to deliver results timeously through effective project planning.
- The role is office bound, with minimum travel for work. Working hours are fixed, with two options available.
- As the Design Engineer your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to the following:
- Compile functional design specifications for automotive refrigeration equipment in terms of capacity, performance, efficiency, and dimensions.
- Management of open and new R&D projects from design, planning (Gantt charts), testing and administration.
- Provide technical presentations to appointed boards, management groups & staff.
- Evaluate mechanical design inputs from the engineering team members and follow the best design route based on engineering best practice, experience, producibility and cost.
- Manage ordering parts and samples, and liaison with suppliers to manufacture according to specification and within time.
- Manage, drive, and supervise the building of prototypes based on new engineering designs.
- Handover of newly designed products to the production team once design, prototyping and testing is complete.
- Project management utilizing internal project tools.
- B.Eng/B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering)
- Full Product lifecycle management (concept, design, testing and product release).
- Minimum 5 years work experience with 3D parametric software and CAD design - Ideally in a product design or production environment.
- Sheet metal design (essential)
- 5 years experience in project management, especially planning and the administrative function is essential.
- Custodian of product Bills of materials (BOMs) and associated costs for R&D Populating, updating, and reducing cost is essential.
- Manage all associated R&D engineering files Assemblies, parts, CAD libraries, DCN files etc.
- Own reliable transport.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and leadership traits.
- Logical, organised & analytical thinking. Solving problems by deductive and inductive reasoning.
- Excellent at verbal articulation and writing skills.
- Experience in the following will be advantageous:
- SolidWorks
- FEA analysis using SolidWorks or Siemens NX Structures.
- An understanding of the vapor compression cycle in refrigeration.
- Expert knowledge in sheet metal design and weldments.
- Any work in the refrigeration industry.
- Any work in the automotive industry.
R&D Engineer
Organization:
Engineering System Development THS
Schedule:
Vollzeit
Employee Status:
Unbefristet
Job Type:
Permanent contract
Job Posting Date:
2023-08-01
Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20, 000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100, 000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development
