Sr. Project Engineer - Design CAD Specialist

Career - avl.com•Plymouth, MI

About The Position

AVL Mobility Technologies, Inc. (MTI) forges new ideas, creating exciting breakthroughs, and providing mobility solutions for combustion engines, transmissions, hybrid applications, fuel cell, battery, ADAS/AD, data intelligence, and embedded systems for all types of vehicles. Our mission is to be the leading engineering consultancy providing excellence and sustainable mobility solutions to North America and the world as a key member of the global AVL network to help improve vehicle safety and reduce emissions. MTI is looking for a motivated engineer to join our team. We are specifically looking for a Design CAD Engineer to provide technical, program, and account management expertise to cross-functional business development and engineering program team execution activities. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Employer will not sponsor an applicant for a work visa for this position.

Requirements

Bachelors’ degree in Mechanical or related field required
5 – 7+ years’ experience in area of expertise in relevant (Considerable experience in CAD and/or PDM system administration)
Excellent communication skills
Analytical thinking
Motivated
Team player
Excellent knowledge of PTC Creo and Windchill PDM system backend installation
Good understanding of design and development processes
Ability to create advanced user forms in multiple interfaces
Understands and has used 3D CAD tools
Organizational skills
Communication and presentation skills

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

Responsible for local PDM system support in coordination with global keyusers.
Direct interface to global keyusers for PDM and CAD system questions, concerns, tools and techniques, upgrade testing, and local implementation of the systems.
Ownership of all local PDM activities for project creation and applying roles and responsibilities for new PDM system libraries.
Provides leadership for U.S. restricted PDM systems and/or CAD systems. Is the direct interface to local third-party support companies for system prove out, maintenance, and development testing.
Ensures that the U.S. administered PDM/CAD systems are common with the global PDM system.
Provides system setup support to new employees as needed for CAD system install and server setup as required.
Coordinates the usage of global design related tools for local users such as material information database, standard hardware data base and design standards/reports database.
Establishes the work split with the local IT department for system administration, coordinates with IT to implement technology updates/tools and techniques.
Coordinates implementation with local IT for administration of the local CAD/PDM system.
Ensures that maintenance updates and future tools and technique enhancements are communicated to the local team.
Provides update training to the design team as need, trains new employees in AVL global PDM practices.
Leads design automation tool development to assist with reducing the product development process for design related efforts.