DRE SUSPENSION
- Windsor, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Experience
- Experience: Minimum 2 years of automotive suspension, chassis, or design-release engineering experience.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Support the design, development, validation, and engineering release of suspension components and sub-assemblies for Stellantis production vehicle programs.
Key Responsibilities
- Design & Release: Lead the design, packaging, and engineering release of suspension components (control arms, knuckles, springs, dampers, sway bars).
- Data Management: Create and maintain 2D/3D CAD models, detailed engineering drawings, structured BOMs, and engineering change notices.
- Kinematics & Dynamics: Support suspension kinematics and compliance (K&C) analysis and vehicle integration activities.
- Quality Documentation: Author and maintain DFMEAs and DVP&Rs for assigned components.
- Testing & Validation: Coordinate bench-level structural testing, component durability, and vehicle-level dynamic validation.
- Supplier & Program Support: Partner with Tier-1 suppliers and internal engineering teams during prototype builds, plant launches, and continuous improvement initiatives for mass, cost, quality, and warranty.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from an ABET-accredited university.
- Experience: Minimum 2 years of automotive suspension, chassis, or design-release engineering experience.
- Software: Proficient in Siemens NX or CATIA V5, combined with Teamcenter (or equivalent PLM).
- Engineering Tools: Practical knowledge of DFMEA, DVP&R, structural testing, GD&T, and supplier management.
- Skills: Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and technical communication capabilities.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Design, package, validate, and release suspension components and sub-assemblies for vehicle programs, maintaining CAD models, drawings, bills of materials, and engineering change notices. Support suspension analysis and vehicle integration, prepare quality documentation, coordinate testing, and collaborate with suppliers and internal teams on launches and continuous improvement.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from an ABET-accredited university and at least two years of automotive suspension, chassis, or design-release engineering experience. Candidates should be proficient in Siemens NX or CATIA V5 and Teamcenter or equivalent PLM, with practical knowledge of DFMEA, DVP&R, structural testing, GD&T, and supplier management.
Skills
- Suspension Design
- Engineering Release
- 2D/3D CAD Modeling
- Siemens NX
- CATIA V5
- Teamcenter
- Suspension Kinematics and Compliance Analysis
- DFMEA
- DVP&R
- Structural Testing
- Component Durability Testing
- GD&T
- Supplier Management
- Vehicle Integration
- Problem-Solving
- Technical Communication
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Categories
- Engineering
- Manufacturing
Keywords
- Automotive Engineering
- Suspension Components
- Control Arms
- Knuckles
- Springs
- Dampers
- Sway Bars
- Design Release
- 2D/3D CAD
- Engineering Drawings
- Structured BOMs
- Engineering Change Notices
- Siemens NX
- CATIA V5
- Teamcenter
- PLM
- Suspension Kinematics and Compliance
- Vehicle Integration
- DFMEA
- DVP&R
- Structural Testing
- Component Durability
- Vehicle Dynamic Validation
- GD&T
- Supplier Management
- Prototype Builds
- Plant Launches
- Continuous Improvement
- Mass, Cost, Quality, and Warranty