DESIGN LEADER

Main Responsibilities include:
 Works according to HSE requirements
 Gets from customer all technical elements necessary for the design (gap and flushness
requirements, surrounding parts, interfaces…)
 Looks for solutions and suggests technical proposals to EPM for project decision, respecting
existing documents in PO network (design standards/PODS, lessons learnt, benchmark
reports…)
 Realizes and pilots the design of parts and products: analyses the feasibility (styling surface,
parting lines, aspect, injection, demoulding, painting, assembly, packaging, perceived quality,
recycling …) with regards to functional specifications from customer
 Manages the daily technical flow of information with CAD office and the Tier 2 suppliers
according to the PO standard
 Checks and validates the quality of the CAD files received from customer, suppliers and design
offices
 Ensures the regular update of the 3D data, 2D drawing and parts’ attributes within the PO CAD
file database (TDM).
 Checks and suggests the reference systems of the parts, semi-finished products and products
and updates it during the project
 Builds the geometry file with stack-ups and tolerances, ensures the validation by the Geometry
Engineer. Updates this folder during the project life
 Liaises with the toolmaker together with the Injection & Tooling Engineer to optimize the
design of parts (according to tool feasibility).
 Before the tool kick-off, defines and formalizes with EPM and the Injection & Tool Engineer the
tuning zone areas to be taken into account for the tools realization
 Follows the realization of 2D/3D drawings of the internal parts and assembly regarding to the
project requirements. Validates technically these drawings before submission to the project for
validation before provided to customer
 For POE parts designed by the Tier 2 suppliers:
o Provides to the supplier all 3D data needed, gap & flushness requirements and
functional specifications
o Analyses the planning of the design of the supplier and checks that it is compatible with
his own activities
o Participates to the validation of the datum scheme, the tolerance stack-ups and
measuring points
o Checks and validates the 3D design and give feed-back to the supplier and to the EPM
o Validates the 2D/3D drawings of the supplier
 For POE parts designed by POAE:
o Provides the 3D data, functional specifications and gap & flushness to the supplier to
validate process feasibility
o Updates the 3D data if needed
o Provides the 2D/3D drawings to the supplier
 Proposes and leads the Design Reviews on his project
 Executes the actions decided during the design reviews and updates regularly the action plan
 Takes into account the perimeter changes after written validation from the EPM
 Manages the CAD file exchanges with the customer respecting internal standards and customer
specifications
 Participates to the study and means validation of the checking fixture
 Could use checking fixture for product fine tuning
 During the tuning phase:
o Validates the 2D/3D drawings of the supplier
o Can participate to tool trials
o Can manage the manufacturing of samples for the customer and the process validation
o Can participate to the cubing events at the customer
o Analyses and suggests modifications on the parts and products to meet the
requirements (by taking also into account the feedback from other team members)
o Updates or pilot the updates of the CAD data according to modifications validated by
the project
 Reports to the EPM the status of the Design Reviews and related actions, the CAD data timing
plan and action plan
 Capitalizes and formalizes the lessons learned of the design during all the project life