Vantage Point Consulting Inc.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Key Responsibilities
Desired Skills and Experience
Personal Attributes:
Key Responsibilities
- Product Lifecycle Management: Monitor and support vehicles from production through end-of-life, implement design changes based on field performance and customer feedback
- Issue Resolution: Investigate and resolve manufacturing or quality issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement corrective actions
- Product Optimization: Refine existing designs for cost, weight, or performance improvements, ensure compatibility with evolving regulations and technologies, Work with suppliers to address component-level issues, validate supplier changes and ensure they meet design intent
- Quality Feedback Integration: Analyzing warranty data, service reports, and customer complaints
- Technology Refresh: Supporting mid-cycle product facelifts or feature upgrades
- Documentation & Compliance: Maintain engineering documentation for all changes, Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and industry standards
- Testing & Validation: Support validation of updated components or systems, analyze test data to confirm performance and durability
- Supplier Collaboration: Working with suppliers to improve component design, materials, or manufacturing processes, Managing obsolescence and alternate sourcing for long-term sustainability
Desired Skills and Experience
- Excellent CATIA V5 2D/3D skills
- Leadership and motivation in a design role is essential
- 7 to 12+ years of previous experience of Design activities at OEM with a demonstrable record of delivery of the accountabilities
- Working in plant environment and ability to manage cross functional team coordination
- strong track record of delivering design to timelines, weight and cost targets
- Supplier liaison, understanding and implementing DFM requirements
- Mechanical or Automotive Engineering Degree preferred
- Background in luxury cars design and development preferred
Personal Attributes:
- Delivery focused, with a demonstrable track record of on-time delivery
- Self motivated to deliver excellence and perform beyond targets
- Strong communication skills
- Good organisational skills and ability to project manage design tasks both internally and with the supplier(s);
- dvanced problem-solving abilities