Technical preparation engineer

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.

Position Description

The department of Manufacturing Engineering (ME-BLR) is part of a global function that develops product and process solutions, leading to operational excellence. We deliver manufacturing engineering solutions to product projects for different truck product classes within Volvo group. It’s a place where we deliver and learn new technologies from both vehicle engineering and manufacturing engineering. In our team we work in a creative atmosphere with Manufacturing (Operations) and Product Development (Engineering) organizations.

Do you want to be a part of the transition to sustainable products? Do you have long experience of ‘Vehicle Engineering or product development or in production environment’ and know how to contribute to a better future for the production of trucks?

As a Technical Preparation Engineer (TPE) you will secure production quality for the Chassis engineering areas that are designed and developed by product development teams. You will be located at Bangalore office and will be supporting global vehicle engineering and ME sites.

As a TPE, you will closely work with product development teams and secure manufacturing requirements during the product development phase, by providing right information to Engineering and performing assembly verifications.

As a TPE, you will also:

• Lead coordination activities between COT Engineering and the ME, production engineering ensuring that manufacturing requirements are implemented into new product designs.
• Review, participate in, ensure production readiness, and co-ordinate implementation of new designs and changes through the production implementation stages.
• Assure compliance with all applicable manufacturing policies and procedures relating to his/her area of responsibility.
• Represent Manufacturing towards Product development/engineering in area of responsibility.
• Set technical requirements on product (incl. process related) and approve technical solutions.
• Support routing development and validation according to MAA Process when needed.
• Provide ‘technical ok’ prior to the approval of product structure launch into downstream systems.
• Create and deliver Delta T estimation.
• Close manufacturing related project issue logs.
• Increase product commonality between the brands Volvo, Renault, Mack trucks.
• Decrease number of parts and product diversity, assembly time and standard cost of sales.
• Enhance ergonomics and assembly environment.
• Increase manufacturing flexibility.
• Implement physical module strategy.
• Timely delivery of Technical Preparation documentation to plants.

We want you to have:

• BE/BTech in Mechanical engineering degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of automotive experience from product development or manufacturing engineering.
• Good knowledge about trucks, especially in Chassis Engineering area.
• Good knowledge of vehicle development Process.
• Knowledge of the parts documentation and structuring (ex: KOLA).
• Knowledge of Creo, CATIA & Windchill.
• Knowledge of Virtual Manufacturing and Assembly processes.
• Perform Assembly Digital Mock up simulations.
• Recommend Assembly distribution between Factories/plants.

We also hope that you:

• Have personal interest in technology.
• Have an open multi-cultural mind-set.
• Be a network builder and have good communication skills.
• Have good organizing and negotiation skill.
• Be business and customer oriented.
• Ability to take initiatives and lead them.

Location: Bangalore

Travel required: occasional

Application screening will start immediately; we look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible. We value your data privacy and therefore do not accept applications via mail.

Who we are and what we believe in

We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities. Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.

Trucks Technology & Industrial Division

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