Product development engineer Resume Dearborn, MI - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Masters graduate in Automotive Systems Engineering
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Experienced with Automotive Controls, Chassis, Ergonomics, and Vehicle Dynamics
Project management skills including acting as single point of contact for projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ANSYS, PRO: E Wildfire 4.0, AutoCAD Mechanical, CATIA V5, UG NX - 5, Hypermesh, MATlab, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Product development engineer

Suspension Engineer for Control arms and Bushings for the Ford Explorer and Ford Mustang
Involved in the development of all-new front and rear suspension component designs through initiation of CAD design, engineering analysis and testing.
Development of CAD designs that meet component level targets for function, cost and weight for development of RFQ packages to support supplier sourcing.
Support sourcing and inventory management during the production and assembly phase.
Act as a single point of contact between the chassis team and the vehicle dynamics team, for helping the vehicle dynamics team coordinate the testing of chassis components like springs, bushings and bars.
Owned the design and tested and validated fasteners for the front suspension components.
Authored technical documents relating to fasteners for this vehicle program.
Acted as a single point of contact for coordinating components which go on prototype vehicles for testing and evaluation.
Work through the Ford release system for responsible components to align with program milestones.

Confidential

Mechanical Design Engineer

Customer Interface and Project Management.
Engineered GE products in compliance with engineering principles, customer standards and specifications, contractual requirements, ISO requirements and local applicable codes.
Designed, reviewed and released engineering drawings(DFMA) including general arrangement and fabrication drawings using AutoCAD, Pro-E and Bentley Project wise
Provided engineering support to Sourcing, Inventory management, Production and Electrical Engineering Departments.
Troubleshoot and resolve production related issues at the shop-floor.
Contacted vendors, created part numbers, prepared Bill of Materials and linked drawings for production using the SAP R/3 ERP system
Trained other team members on lessons learnt and defects and also on new operational processes.
Co-developed 2 productivity improvement tools which help reduce cycle time during design phase to up to 60 %.