Job Summary
Position is responsible for the design of Southco products to customer and Southco requirements with the goal to meet expectation in regards to cost quality and time lines. This includes developing proper designs in regards of DFMEA and Tolerance analysis, also including reviewing PFMEA, DFM (esp. tooling) and DFA. Design Engineer ensures that product development is carried out in conjunction with Southco's PRO-04 and Southco's/customer's PPAP elements. This position is to support Engineering Manager and Project Manager in fulfilling certain elements of the technical project management and product design activities. Working close with NPD team for product development cycle to launch.

Position Responsibilities
· SPECIFICATION DEVELOPMENT:
Review customer requirement and specification
Summarizes and clarifies customer specification, requirement, issues and outcome with customer and internal use
Develop product specification together with KAM/customers and work on design and provides schedules.
Ensures that customer parameter brief (CPB) in 1213 data is complete be updated to date. ( Use as core tool)

· CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT, CAD DESIGN, DRAWING CREATION (design work with goal to meet customer and Southco specifications):
Designs (CAD) and creates concepts and production parts towards customer and internal specification considering program goals in the area of cost, quality and time lines (from initial acquisition to formal program to launch)
Ensures DFMEA/TA/DFA and DFM (esp. Die casting, Stamping and injection molding processes) are integrated in product design (in conjunction with NPD and manufacturing engineering support).
Creates designs in NX-Unigraphics towards the required customer CAD standards.
Creates component, assembly and trade drawings for internal and external use using GD&T, SC (special characteristics) and other tools for identifying customer and Southco requirement.
Carries out product improvements (CAD design) towards internal and external requirements (i.e. specification change request)
Makes complete tolerance analysis on all interfering features (sub assembly and customers application)
Take responsibility of Project Management for modification project in initial technical feasibility studies, design concept presentation and cost estimate activites and working very close with NPD team in product development cycles. Also work with Project Manager/Sales team from initial concept development during project/program acquisition and RFQ processes

· TECHNICAL PROGRAMN MANAGEMENT (Southco-customer-supplier), incl. quality documentation and considering goals for cost, quality and time lines:
Support project manager and participate project meetings (technical aspects) to ensure program requirements are met, initiate team tasks (i.e. preparation of cost estimates, testing, quality tasks…) in regards to program needs
Organizes leads and manages Design FMEA activities. Ensures that D-FMEA is up-to-date throughout the program
Creates test plans on basis of customer and Southco requirements and supports product evaluation department to achieve results in a timely manner to the quality level required. Ensures that program requirements are met with designed product. Communicates design issues to Transportation management team.
Supports manufacturing engineering on technical issues (product specification, i.e. material selection, etc.), tooling requirements and vendor support
Provides supply chain management team with relevant technical data so that sourcing procedures (RFQ) can be executed and successfully finished. Ensures that product and program specification changes are reported in time.
Supports supply chain management group and manufacturing engineers in technical review meeting with supply base (ie. design and process reviews)
Ensures that product development process follows PRO-04 requirements. Maintains PRO-04 documentation when required. Manages/maintains/supports required technical customer documentation (as per customer specification).

· TECHNICAL CUSTOMER INTERACTION (engineer-to-engineer relationship):
Visits appropriate customer engineers to check the project status in regards of the program / project requirements (application/product specification, cost - if applicable, quality, time lines)
Support Southco and customer thru required changes.

· LAUNCH AND AFTER LAUNCH SUPPORT:
Supports manufacturing, quality engineers in completing PPAP documentation
Ensures that prototype, pre-production and production (initial) build dates and requirements are met towards expected quality goals and time lines
· DESIGN REVIEWS / KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER (Across SBU design teams)
Coaches new or younger team members to get them to the next level (technical aspects) to ensure they acquire basic Southco best practices in design & development of mods & custom products
Attend internal design reviews. Check documentations & designs are to the correct quality standards such as D-FMEA, drawings, tolerance analysis, test plan and are in line with customer specifications.
Supports Senior Engineering or Supervisor and Project Managers on technical issues

Requirements
?Engineering Degree, required or equivalent
?Program/Project Management Experience, prefered (1~2 Years), desired
?Design & project Engineering Experience, required (4+ Years)
?Chartered Engineer preferred
?Work permit / passport which allows to work and travel throughout China (required) and throughout AP (preferred)
?Fluent in English

索斯科公司于1899年在美國成立，經(jīng)過橫跨三個世紀的發(fā)展，
索斯科已經(jīng)成為全球工程進入硬件設(shè)計及生產(chǎn)的領(lǐng)導者。她現(xiàn)在為全球超過70，000多個客戶提供工程進入硬件產(chǎn)品及服務(wù)。其產(chǎn)品應(yīng)用涵蓋汽車、飛機、輪船、鐵路、電腦等60多個行業(yè)的緊固件、插鎖及進入硬件設(shè)備，客戶遍及全球36個國家。100多年來，無論對于頂尖的汽車客戶、跨國網(wǎng)絡(luò)還是計算機企業(yè)，索斯科都是客戶青睞的供應(yīng)商。

亞太地區(qū)是全球經(jīng)濟蓬勃發(fā)展的地區(qū)，而上海更是這個地區(qū)一顆耀眼的明星。位于上海市閔行區(qū)莘莊工業(yè)區(qū)元明路30號的索斯科鎖定技術(shù)（上海）有限公司于2005年成立，以生產(chǎn)注塑產(chǎn)品為主，多應(yīng)用于汽車行業(yè)，并于2008年被評為索斯科全球最佳工廠。我們致力于利用自身豐富的經(jīng)驗、優(yōu)秀的團隊、貼心的服務(wù)，為上海、全中國乃至整個亞太地區(qū)的客戶提供優(yōu)質(zhì)服務(wù)。我們愿為上海的經(jīng)濟發(fā)展做出我們的貢獻。