The role focuses on delivering robust, lightweight, manufacturable, and regulation-compliant solutions for global markets while ensuring vehicle safety, durability, and platform standardization.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Design and develop:
- Frame attachments like fender, fender brackets, accessory brackets
- Fifth wheel coupling
- Catwalk platform
- HV safety components positioning and mounting
- Rear Underrun Protection Device (RUPD)
- Side Underrun Protection Device (SUPD)
- Front and Rear Tow Hooks
- Mounting brackets and reinforcement structures
- Recovery interfaces and associated frame attachments
- Develop modular solutions compatible with multiple Mercedes-Benz and BharatBenz vehicle platforms.
- Define packaging concepts considering:
- Frame architecture & Rear overhang
- Axle configurations & Suspension movement
- Body builder requirements
- Ensure compliance with global regulations and standards, including:
- UNECE R58 (Rear Underrun Protection)
- UNECE R73 (Side Underrun Protection)
- Regional homologation and customer-specific requirements
- Perform structural assessments for:
- Static strength & Dynamic loading
- Recovery and towing loads
- Fatigue durability
- Corrosion performance
- Vehicle integration
- Optimize designs for:
- Weight reduction & Cost efficiency
- Manufacturability
- Commonality across vehicle platforms
- Develop 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, and BOMs.
- Collaborate with global engineering teams, manufacturing, purchasing, suppliers, homologation, and testing departments.
- Support prototype builds, validation testing, homologation activities, and production launch.
- Investigate field failures, perform root cause analysis, and implement robust corrective actions.
- Drive continuous improvement, innovation, and global standardization of structural safety components.
Technical Competencies:
- Heavy-Duty Commercial Vehicle Chassis Design
- Structural Design of Safety Components
- RUPD & SUPD Regulations (UNECE R58 & R73)
- Tow Hook & Recovery Load Design
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Fatigue & Durability Engineering
- Welded and Bolted Joint Design
- High-Strength Steel Applications
- GD&T and Engineering Drawings
- DFMEA, DVP&R, APQP
- Manufacturing Processes (Stamping, Bending, Welding, Machining)
- Cost Optimization and Value Engineering
Key Deliverables:
- Production-ready RUPD, SUPD, and Tow Hook designs
- CAD models and engineering drawings
- Design release documentation
- Structural analysis and validation reports
- Homologation support documentation
- Weight and cost optimization proposals
- Engineering change management and issue resolution
Success Measures:
- Compliance with global safety regulations
- Achievement of durability and strength targets
- On-time design releases
- Weight and cost reduction achievements
- Manufacturing quality and launch readiness
- Reduction in field failures and warranty issues
Increased platform commonality and modularity across global products
Qualifications
Bachelor's or Masters in Mechanical Engineering or Automobile
