Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer

**THE COMPANY**Our client is a mid-size highly niched global company who designs and manufactures leading audio visual, mobile communication devices, automotive, and electronics with a full line of electronic components, remote controls, and touch panels, as well as a variety of custom products that require a high level of precision, performance and reliability. As a result of aggressive growth in the electric automotive sector, they are in need of a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer who will be a key contributor to a R&D Design Engineering team in their large state-of-the-art Tijuana Manufacturing and R&D site who is successfully designing world class electronic products for OEM’s on a global scale. Positions reports to the R&D Mechanical Design Engineering Supervisor.**THE POSITION****Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities**:- Conducts client requirement studies and validations studies- Elaborate drawings and sketches of new designs for quoting purposes- Creates mechanical BOM’s and their associated drawings.- Assists purchasing department with technical support in purchasing negotiations and in resolving problems in the supply chain.- Assists quality department in evaluating parts and suppliers.- Participates in meetings with clients and suppliers.- Elaborates boundary diagrams and FMEA’s.- Conducts mechanical design of products and mechanisms.- Creates mechanical drawings in 3D, and 2D for quoting and manufacturing.- Elaborates technical reports of completed daily tasks- Creates solutions to design issues and problems.- Builds prototypes and analyzes functionality.- Personal follow-up of production runs during product development stages.- Conducts performance analysis and elaborates product specifications- Suggests verification methods and tests product performance.- Conducts root cause analysis.- Performs mechanical, optical and acoustic simulations.- Reviews tooling design.- Elaborates meeting minutes and follow-up on all pending’s.- Elaborates purchase orders for components, materials and services during product development stages.- Participates in product development and new product implementation meetings.- Elaborates prototypes and validation products.- Conducts statistical analysis of product and processes and confirms specifications.- Assists in continuous improvement processes and problem-solving activities.- Assists quality with defect analysis.- Assists manufacturing engineering department with fabrication and measurement methods.- Assists production with production methods (standard operating procedures).- Performs all duties as assigned.**THE CANDIDATE****Experience, Qualifications and Education**:- 4+ years of experience in plastics part design/ rubbers and/or metal parts design, preferably for automotive, interior component design but open to consumer electronics.- Bachelor university degree in Electromechanical engineering or mechanical engineering is preferred or other engineering disciplines with equivalent experience. (“pasante” is acceptable).- Able to develop full product with little or no guidance- Mechanical product definition and product validation process (preferred).- Experience in parts and process standardization- Able to perform product sustaining activities (ECO, TDR, PAF, CAF, PFMEA, DFMEA, DFM, and other documents related)- Able to comply with agency regulation such as: IEC/ ASTM/ ISO. UL- Experience designing with CREO Surfaces / Parametrics (Specially Surfaces and Windchill). Solidworks. (Examination will be required).- Experience with Plastic injection molded process (required) and extrusion dies (preferred) and tooling.- Experienced with troubleshooting of injection molded parts and final products.- Knowledge of DFMEA/ PFMEA- Experience with GD&T and tolerance analysis.- Knowledge of finite element simulations- Requires valid Visa to travel abroad up to 10%.- Fluent in English (85%) and Spanish.**Preferred**:- Experience in product validation (For consumer electronics or automotive) is a plus.- Familiarity or experience in APQP or TS16949 is desirable.- Experience with automotive industry is highly preferred.- Supervisory experience is a plus.**Skills Required**:- Able to work with multi-disciplinary teams- Collaborative work style and team player.