Senior Product Design Engineer
Current• Acted as a liaison between Quality, Purchase and Project team, catering to the needs of the project activities• Negotiated with the supplier to deliver the components at series price by ordering higher quantities• Spearheaded project initiation by meticulously documenting and releasing comprehensive component requirements and technical specifications.• Orchestrated weekly and monthly meetings to review and retrospect the project deliverables• Recommended improvement points to the supplier production facility considering the safe and best practices as per the VDA 6.6 audit guidelines. • Fostered a new supplier by providing technical engineering support to build and test functional prototypes of components in order to prove the component as per the test requirements. • Successfully established India as the centre of competence for level sensor design and development• Optimized the design of a sheet metal bracket by reduced material usage by 25% & weight by 30%• Lead the team to standardize the design across platforms, reducing the variants from 3 to 1