Lead Electronics Engineer

•    Within a lamp project this position leads all electronics and electrical development activities (as a Sub-System of the lamp), i.e. LED electronics, wire harnesses, LED drivers and Controls for Head- and Rear-Lamps).
•    Customer technical key contact for electronics and electrical subsystem
•    Analyze project requirements (customer and internal) and develop and maintain the ‘electronics’ time schedule according the customer project milestones, the lamp schedule and release plan and ensure a successful product launch •    Is responsible for mechanical BOM release & updates.
•    Define, plan and track work packages for all electronics disciplines (System Design, HW design, SW design, System validation, HW validation, SW validation, ECAD, MCAD)
•    Organize technical reviews of work products (designs, architecture, requirements, test plans, test reports). Support lamp technical design reviews (TDR) of the given project – on request also participate in other project reviews.
•    Apply project change, defect and risk management in accordance to the PO Lighting development process to comply with automotive SPICE requirements.
•    Track Electronics Product BOM- and engineering-cost to maintain or reach profitability
•    Support customer presentations and discussions and present technical content of quotations or development results
•    Consultation of the customer when implementing technical requirements and agree on technical solutions. Identify and track internal or external changes.
•    Assure compliance and maintenance of processes according to automotive standards – specifically ASPICE and ISO26262
•    Cooperates at creation of DFMEA, CAE plan, DV plan, component test and certification in compliance with the CDP/VPDS/VBOS, customer specifications as well as legal requirements. 
•    Actively works within the team to support successful DV/PV and delivery of PPAP on time.
•    Scouts for innovation opportunities, cost optimizations and actively participates in DCRM sessions and participates in their implementation in the project. 
•    Support project quotations with technical reviews and effort estimations
•    Performs other activities as required.
 

EDUCATION REQUIREMENT(S):

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering required; Master’s degree preferred.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT(S):

•    More than 3 years of professional experience in automotive electrical engineering
•    Practical experience in project management in automotive electronic products (hardware or software)
•    High degree of organizational skills and self-motivation •    Availability for occasional national or international business-travel to meet with customers, suppliers and other OPmobility development- and production sites
•    Practical experience and know-how in usage of following tools (e.g. MS-Office, MS-Project, IBM RTC, DOORS, Rhapsody, SYSML, UML…)7

•     High degree of cost consciousness

•     Very good communication skills and teamwork