What are the responsibilities and job description for the Design Engineer position at PKC Group?
Job Description
RESPONSIBILITIES / RESPONSABILIDADES -
Education and Experience:
RESPONSIBILITIES / RESPONSABILIDADES -
- Design and develop LV wiring harnesses and HV cable assemblies for automotive and commercial vehicle platforms.
- Developing Bills of Materials from Customer inputs, able to verify Customer supplied BOM with drawing.
- Developing Bills of Materials from Customers inputs for rapid responses to Customer RFIs and RFQs
- Develop wiring schematics, harness drawings, topology layouts, and manufacturing documentation using Capital Harness Software tool.
- Perform harness routing, packaging studies, bundle optimization, and component integration activities.
- Interpret and implement customer engineering drawings, specifications, standards, and electrical requirements.
- Select and integrate connectors, terminals, clips, splices, shielding, conduits, and protective components.
- Understanding Customer supplied DVPR and interpreting those and executing it.
- Support prototype builds, engineering changes, issue resolution, and design validation activities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including manufacturing, purchasing, validation, quality, and supplier engineering.
- Participate in DFMEA, DFM/DFA reviews, and engineering change management processes.
- Ensure designs meet automotive quality, safety, and regulatory requirements for LV and HV systems.
- Support customer meetings, design reviews, and program launch activities.
- Support for organizational activities for VA/VE & inventory control
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Electronics Engineering or Mechanical Engineering with Elec knowledge.
- 3–5 years of experience in automotive or commercial vehicle wiring harness design and development.
- Hands-on experience with Siemens Capital Harness Software.
- Strong knowledge of Low Voltage Harnesses and High Voltage Cable systems.
- Good understanding of vehicle Electrical/Electronic (E/E) architecture.
- Knowledge of automotive connectors, terminals, grounding, shielding, and wiring protection systems.
- Ability to read and interpret customer drawings, engineering specifications, and OEM standards.
- Familiarity with automotive product development lifecycle and engineering release processes.
- Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Previous role with key OEM/Tier account; light vehicle, commercial vehicle, specialized product OEM related to agriculture, construction or recreational sports.
- Technical expertise in harness design and development & Bills of Material creation.
- Vehicle E/E architecture understanding
- Customer harness / component specification /standard interpretation
- Cross-functional collaboration with understanding on VA/VE
- Design validation (DVPR) and problem-solving
- Time management and project coordination
- Must be able to travel up to 20% of the time
- Medium physical activity – ability to lift up to 25 pounds.
- High level of initiative and works well in team environment.
- Able to manage stressful situations and deadline pressures.
- Plans and executes responsibilities with minimal direction.