We are looking for Automotive Design Lead to work for the most important Tier1, specialized in hard trim in the automotive sector based in Barcelona.
Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree: Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in automotive component design.
- Expert in aesthetical plastic parts.
- Strong experiencie with Catia V5 and DFMEA.
- Experience in project management and coordination with internal teams and customers.
- Good communication skills.
- Experience with materials such as ABS, PC, PMMA/ABS.
- Good level of English.

Responsibilities:
- Understand customer technical specifications necessary for the design ( product performance and safety, gap and flushness, quality, assembly sequence, surrounding parts, ...)
- Looks for solutions and suggests technical proposals to EPM for project decision, respecting existing documents.
- 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 tier1 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 tier1 CAD file database.
- Builds the geometry file with stack-ups and tolerances, ensures the validation by the Geometry Engineer. Update 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

📌 Automotive Design Lead (España)
🏢 BCNC GROUP
📍 España