Sr Lead Engineer - Body Systems CoE
Mahindra Group · Posted Sep 24
Automotive, farm equipment, information technology, financial services, and hospitality services
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About the role
The Body Systems Centre of Excellence at Mahindra Group works on vehicle body engineering, covering durability, NVH and crash performance of Body systems and BIW structures. The team defines DVPs and performance targets from real world usage patterns, validates designs through CAE, lab, rig and vehicle testing, and drives design solutions against benchmarks and regulatory (GNCAP/ENCAP/BENCAP) requirements. This role leads performance target setting, review of released Body Systems data, root cause analysis of BIW/system/sub-system failures, and sign-off of recommended solutions with CoE Heads.
What you will do
- A comprehensive understanding of vehicle durability, NVH and crash performance
- Ability to extract DVP requirements related to Body systems from PDB (Product Description Book) provided by Product Planning.
- Sharing Inputs for creating master sections of Body systems and verifying its adequacy with ref to Performance.
- Ensuring Lesson learnt related to performance are deployed in the early stage of the design.
- Analyzing benchmark tests & reports in terms of performance for the Body systems.
- Defining the component and system level DVPs of Body systems based on RWUP (Real World Usage Pattern) study .
- Setting Performance Targets based on RWUP.
- Sharing valuable inputs related to Performance and making CFMEA and DFMEA Robust.
- Deep understanding of materials used in Body systems and its manufacturing process.
- Provide performance inputs for making BIW CAD data maturity along with relevant Benchmarks
- Review and Analyze the released Body Systems data and share performance feedback of BIW Joinery, Sections and Load path etc.
- Design action recommendation/solution based on the CAE results (Crash, NVH, Durability) / Test /Lab results that are not meeting the Performance.
- Provide Design Proposals to meet Weight targets without compromising on Performance.
- Good understanding needed on the Regulation and GNCAP/ENCAP/BENCAP requirement in Crash
- Checking the supplier level DVPs and provide feedback
- Verify the test plan and test setup for component, system and vehicle level testing sign off.
- Assessing the subsystem & components level testing in the testing Labs
- Identify Root cause for the BIW/System/Sub-system level failures in vehicle testing / Lab / Supplier Rig level Testing and propose solution to meet Performance Targets in consultation with CoE Heads.
- Ensuring the recommended solutions for any deviation sign off
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience 12 to 15 years
- Industry Preferred
- BE / BTech / ME / MTech in Mechanical / Automobile / CAE
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Mahindra Group
The Mahindra Group is a multinational conglomerate federation of companies with a presence across more than 20 industries globally. The group holds leadership positions in utility vehicles, farm equipment, information technology, and financial services. Driven by its core purpose to enable people to Rise, Mahindra operates across over 100 countries.
- Industry
- Conglomerate
- Company size
- 327000+ employees
- Founded
- 1945-10-02
- Location
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman
Group CEO & Managing Director
Group Chief Financial Officer
Group Chief Technology Officer
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