• Billion Dollar Parent Group Dominating the Automotive Space;

• Stability & Impressive Employee Retention | Clear Career Pathways Due to Organisation Scale; and

• Diverse New Product Development Design Engineering – Highly Interesting Work | Excellent Tenured Managers Engaged in Mentoring & Development.

Your new Company

Your new company is a progressive specialist in vehicle accessories and towing solutions. Delivering best-in-class, highly engineered automotive solutions, your new company is an industry leader in design, manufacture and distribution of a wide variety of automotive products in Australia, New Zealand & Asia – Pacific region.

With an expansive product range, you will be showcasing your abilities as a Senior Design Engineer. With a broad product line including; towbars, towing accessories, roof racks, trays, cargo management, sports bars and many more, your new organisation is part of a billion-dollar parent business, illustrating stability, expertise and dominance in the automotive category.

Your new role

Local to Dandenong, your new role will see you reporting to the Engineering Manager, working 8:00/8.30am – 4:00/4.30pm. As the key driver of quality engineering outcomes across design improvement for new and existing products, you will be a highly valued member within the Engineering team. You will work on up to 10 projects at a time, and be committed to achieving excellence against strict customer and production-related deadlines.

Working with a large variety of automotive tier ones, you will be exposed to excellent practices, work with a large-scale engineering team of approximately 45 onsite, and be exposed to facilities onsite that allow for inhouse testing of prototyped solutions.
This is the type of role highly technical, committed, and ambitious Design Engineers strive for as a career destination.

Your new role will see you;

• Adhering to new product development aligned to approximately 50% of your role;

• Responsible for providing accurate specs and designs to enable functionality, cost control and quality;

• Project stakeholder management, and staying across customer and product strategic directions;

• Coordinate with production engineering for processes, jigs & runs;

• Cost optimisation, VAVE and Design review;

• Ability to work across many projects and multitask in a fast-paced role;

• Contribute to PPAP documentation accurately, and other related reporting & evaluation tasks;

• Working with engineering-based programs like AUTOCAD & SolidWorks consistently; and

• Paramount will be your commitment to OHS.

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor’s Degree in mechanical engineering;

• Solidworks experience preferred, will consider other systems like Catia and Siemans NX;

• Ability to work on multi-projects, with each engineer potentially having 7 - 10 in one instance;

• Live local to Dandenong and surrounding suburbs and seeking an immediate, permanent opportunity;

• Proven experience within the automotive industry will be viewed as highly valued; and

• A team player, dedicated to deadlines, commitment to customer satisfaction and execution of excellence in delivery and the tenacity to achieve timely solutions.

What you’ll get in return

• Be part of a bigger picture billion-dollar automotive enterprise, specialising in custom high-quality engineered solutions;

• Complete diversity of your day-to-day achieving design solutions for tier 1 customers in the automotive space;

• Ample and varied pathways to move into varied other parts of the same business, or organisations owned within the broader parent company;

• Work with an international corporation where you have the opportunity to advance the organisation's progress into more senior roles

• Great senior mechanical design engineer role, where you get to work with professionals in the field locally and internationally; and

• Local to Dandenong – work close to home in a role where you can apply your skills to multiple kinds of designs, executed to perfection. Please note there is no work from home in this hands-on role, which sees a large portion of the role on the manufacturing floor, juxtaposed to solely being computer-based.

Who to contact

For more information or a confidential discussion please call Lauren Gruescu at u&u on 0422 803 494, quoting reference number 44768.
 
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