Lead CAD Designer

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise Designers and Design Leaders and assigns work packages
• Complete performance review documentation and conduct annual performance reviews for design staff Assign to their team.
• Help designers Develop concepts through to production, to ensure robust, cost sensitive design solutions
• Work closely with the designers to develop and implement solid design concepts to meet the requirements defined in customer contract and implementing Magna’s design best practices
• Review cad components and assemblies during design phase and complete design checklist. Communicating issues to Program team prior to TKO
• Work closely with design team to ensure legal functional requirements, and manufacturing limitations are meet
• Ensure the CAD deliverables are progressing along the expected timeline, and propose action plans should problems arise
• Mentor designers to create and define robust, computer aided design files, consistent with Magna’s Standards, capable of enduring multiple design revisions quickly and efficiently
• Mentor the designers assigned to their respective programs, helping them to develop their skills sets and experience
• Create and maintain design standard parts library best practices gained from current experience
• Teams with TIE for integrating new design systemic items
• Supports TIE CAD specific projects – e.g. mass optimization, standardized structural execution development of design algorithms
• Supports TIE for CAD / detailed dimension generation for use in Best Practice
• Supports TIE for any other CAD related tasks, as required (e.g. feature development for rapid prototyping, mock-ups, etc)
• Supports program design team in brainstorming and quick concept generation in CAD, as required

Key Qualifications/Requirements

• Two or three years post-secondary school (university or Community college) (Engineering Field) or Associates in CAD preferred
• 12 to 15 years’ experience preferred
• Solid control of Parametric Free Form Surface and Solid modeling in 1-2 CAD packages such as Unigraphics/NX, or Catia
• Understands and applies standard plastics geometries to ensure manufacturing controls (ie: Draft, Wall stock, Rads and Fillets) are incorporated
• Can manage data transfers as required by our customer, utilizing the systems prescribed as trained/ presented.
• Perform translation of data utilizing industry standard translation software as required cad Doctor preferred
• Proven track record cascading design/best practice knowledge throughout organization

Additional Information

• Highly motivated, self-directed, creative, innovative individual.
• Team / Associate oriented skill set.
• Demonstrates focus on meeting program commitments and enforcement of work plans where timing is not achieved.
• Extremely detail oriented going above and beyond specific product design to include system interfaces.
• Effective communication (written and verbal) with various departments within Autosystems.
• Ability to effectively follow written and verbal direction on tasks to completion.
• Experience in Microsoft Applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Demonstrated understanding of Standard Drafting Practices and the ability to interpret Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing.
• Basic understanding of manufacturing processes and techniques, such as Injection Molding, Coating systems, and Assembly techniques currently in use.
• Reasoning Ability: Effective trouble shooting for a variety of different situations/issues effectively.