Engineer - Suspension Design

Role & responsibilities

Designs mechanical suspensions for commercial vehicles across loading applications: spring selection, shock absorber damping and roll stiffness calculations, anti-roll bar design, through to PLM release.

Four openings (Suspension Design 14); one further Suspension opening is at Senior Engineer level.

3. Must Have Skills

• Commercial vehicle mechanical suspension design (leaf spring, shock absorber, anti-roll bar)
• Suspension calculations – damping force, roll stiffness, ride and handling
• CATIA – solid, surface, sheet metal, casting and assembly modules
• Vehicle integration, DMU and packaging
• GD&T, tolerance stack-up and DFMEA

4. Good To Have Skills

• FEA inputs and design iteration
• DVP and IATF 16949
• 8D problem solving and field-failure root cause analysis
• Competitor benchmarking

5. Roles and Responsibilities

• Design vehicle suspensions for the required loading applications.
• Own concept design, evaluation and finalisation of the suspension system.
• Carry out suspension packaging and layout studies, spring selection and shock absorber layouts.
• Calculate shock absorber damping force and finalise the shock absorber.
• Calculate roll stiffness, select the anti-roll bar and finalise its design.
• Provide inputs for FEA structural analysis and iterate the design to clear it.
• Meet the Quality, Cost and Delivery targets of each project.
• Document project deliverables: design proposals, DFMEA, design calculations and DVP.
• Work with cross-functional teams to meet DFM, DFA and DFS requirements.
• Generate proposals to overcome design challenges and evaluate them on cost and complexity.
• Own CAD quality at part and assembly level.
• Release Bill of Material and specifications in PLM.
• Prepare reports and presentations for engineering reviews.
• Solve technical issues through the 8D approach and QC tools, including root cause analysis of field failures.
• Identify critical-to-quality parameters and apply control parameters on drawings.
• Benchmark competitor designs and submit reports.

Preferred candidate profile