Key Responsibilities 

Supplier Leadership: Lead and manage suppliers through all development stages, ensuring parts are released and ready for production tooling. 

Project Management: Maintain project timing, drive milestone compliance, and keep management informed of progress and roadblocks. 

Quality & Validation: Ensure all tooled parts are validated per PPAP requirements and coordinate both supplier and internal vehicle/sub-system validation testing. 

Technical Design: Perform design, CAD, and drawing reviews. 

Run analytical verifications including simulations, calculations, and stack-ups. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with internal technical groups (including latching and closures) to ensure all interface requirements are met. 

Documentation: Integrate lessons learned into FMEAs, prepare technical presentations, and manage supplier design data within internal systems (WERS, Teamcenter).

• Experience: 10+ years of mechanisms development experience (ideally related to latching, handles, or exterior mechanisms). 
• Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of engineering plastics, steels, and manufacturing processes (molding, stampings, castings). 
• Software Proficiency: Experience with CATIA V5/V6, Teamcenter/Enovia, and Microsoft Office tools. 
• Engineering Tools: Expertise with DFMEA, DVP&R, GD&T, and problem-solving tools (5D/8D, 6-sigma). 
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for regular interaction with technical groups and management. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with water management, sealing design, greases, and painted plastics. 
• Understanding of electronics such as microswitches and small harnesses. 
• Familiarity with tolerance analytical tools (C-Tol, 3DCS, Enventive) or CAE tools (ADAMS, FEA, Hypermesh).