Volvo Group is hiring | Multiple Positions |

Position – Engineer – SAS (Suspension, Axles and Steerings)

Volvo Group
Location – Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Position Description

About SAS, VE-Chassis, GTT BLR

• The SAS (Suspension, Axles and Steering) Group has the responsibilities to Develop Components and Systems for Front, Rear Suspension and Steering system for Trucks, within GTT. The Group responsibility covers Start cost projects, Maintenance and Technology developments, across various Products in the Volvo GTT including Asia specific ranges.
• In our work we have contact with other business areas like Operations, Purchasing, After Market, Powertrain Engineering as well as Vehicle engineering colleagues in Global sites in Gothenburg, Lyon, Greensboro, Curitiba and Ageo.

Job Description

• Are you passionate about Solving complex mechanical engineering problems? Do you want to work in a dynamic team that is involved in innovative projects, complex Quality issues, and Continuous improvements?
• In the area of SAS, we are now looking for an Engineer for Rear Suspensions to reinforce the team’s Deliveries to Various ranges of Products within the Volvo Group.

As a Engineer working with the SAS, the main deliverables are:

• Structural design of Rear suspension components and installation, Contribute to the Workload in the SAS Area.
• To work with cross functional teams and with a global network of people within Product Development, Purchasing, Global Manufacturing and Aftermarket.
• To execute Projects with QDCF (Quality, Delivery, project and product Cost, Feature).
• Engineering documentation of drawings and specifications.
• Drive and establish a good Collaborative working with Global Sites.
• Should be proficient in Pro-E, Volvo Tools Knowledge like PDM, KOLA will be added advantage.

Qualifications and Key Attributes:

• Master/Bachelor degree in Mechanical/Automobile Engineering, With Overall experience 3-5 years in the automobile industry.
• Hand on Experience in product development. Have a capacity to work individually to secure the deliverables.
• Good knowledge of Product Development Life Cycle End to End. Product Knowledge of Truck Chassis MD/HD. Exposure to various truck application usage / understandings.
• Good networking and interpersonal skills with good verbal and written communication.
• Creative Mindset, Agile, Self-driven, High Energy and Goal oriented are the Key Attributes.
• For any information, Contact Kamal Kacholya, Group Manager SAS&CSETA, VE-Chassis, GTT BLR

Position – Engineer – Geometrical Architect

Volvo Group
Location – Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Position Description

The content of the role can be shortly described as,

• The Geometrical Architect (GA) takes the lead in cross commodity geometrical activities to fulfill the project QDCF requirements. GA brings complete CAB knowledge to deliver optimized and communalized architecture by balancing customer needs while protecting brand distinction.
• GA is leader for vehicle packaging, taking care of the interfaces between modules. This job is closely connected to strategies, technology, manufacturing development and product /project planning and has more engagement over time than just project time.
• GA has an area responsibility for a given project.
• GA leads the cross functional work through the packaging meeting.
• GA involves the people that can/should contribute.
• GA delivers the secured geometries within the time frame.
• This position comes under reporting structure of Group Manager – Geometrical Architecture & Platform group within CAB design department.

Responsibilities

• Deliver quality secured geometry towards the projects. To solve packaging/geometry issues between different commodities. This includes tolerances, weight, main dimensions and bodybuilder suitability
• Set up the cross-functional packaging organization and Packaging Issue Log (PIL)
• Propose solutions for complete offer scenario/packaging.
• Analyze and propose common solutions that can support all brands in order to minimize part numbers and maximize common parts.
• Give input regarding geometrical matters to stakeholders (Global Manufacturing (GM), Aftermarket (AM) and commodities (ex. Cab, Chassis, Electrical, Powertrain), from a complete vehicle perspective.
• Build geometry verification plan (virtual builds, physical builds B/C, DMU structure)
• Show progress (by PIL) and status for all geometry related activities
• Identify A-interface impacts and balance project geometrical requirements with platform requirements according to A-interface process, in collaboration with the area leader.
• Drive Digital Mock up (DMU structure) deliveries according to DMU logic.

Authorities:

• The Geometrical Architect (GA), has the authority to take all necessary decisions in order to fulfil the responsibilities:
• Take necessary geometrical decisions in a project or a packaging study. Decisions should be within project pre req. frame/scope. This is to achieve agreed project requirements balanced with platform requirements.
• Arbitrate the issues that are brought up between commodities, and escalate the issue if needed, write a Protus.
• Determine together with AL geometrical verification method that sould apply to a given project, request packaging vehicles and/or physical mock-up taking into account area complexities, time and cost.

Competence

• Personal characteristics:
• Ownership/Accountability
• Assertive communication
• Attention to Detail
• Structured and analytical
• Solution oriented
• Problem-Solving/Decision-Making
• Flexibility
• Conceptual Thinking
• Creativity/Innovation
• Leadership

Key skills:

• Team Oriented
• Ability to collaborate
• Product data management
• Product knowledge
• Vehicle geometry architecture
• System Engineering and Requirement management
• Vehicle Regulations and Compliance (basic)

Theoretical knowledge:

• BE / B-Tech (Mechanical / Automotive)
• CATIA
• Homologation
• Competitor Analysis (benchmarking)
• KOLA & PROTUS (preferred)
• Clear and crisp in communication
• Should be team oriented and able to collaborate with cross-functional area’s
• University degree- Bachelor of Mechanical / Automobile Engineering with 3-5 year industry experience.

Position – Engineer – Geometrical Assurance

Volvo Group
Location – Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Position Description

Role Description

• Within CAB design department, Geometrical Assurance Engineering (GAE) as a part of Geometrical Architecture group, is responsible for ensuring cabs and the constituting components/systems are designed to the dimensional needs to assure the aesthetical, functional and mountability conditions. Your position as Geometrical Assurance Engineer, performing Geometrical Assurance Engineering activities with goal to ensure the geometrical quality on the build products throughout the complete life cycle of the product.
• To achieve your mission, you shall have close interactions with quality requirement engineer, design team, CAB architecture team, verification leader, project manager and suppliers.
• You visit suppliers and Volvo assembly locations to validate the solutions.
• This position comes under reporting structure of Group Manager – Geometrical Architecture & Platform group within CAB design department.

Purpose:

The content of the role can be shortly described as:

• Establishing concepts and integrate geometry robustness in the product (robust Tolerancing at part, subassembly and assembly level) and process
• Preparing verification and geometrical adjustments for industrialization and production
• Statistical follow up for dimensional convergence during development, and stability during production phase
• Many of the tasks that this job performs is connected to strategies, technology, manufacturing development and product /project planning and has more engagement over time than just project time

Responsibilities

• Implement the complete GAE process in all the impacted areas of projects (Interior, exterior, driving & BIW)
• Deliver the prerequisites and balanced geometry in order to meet the product aesthetical, functional and mountability demands considering technology developments, project and manufacturing requirements
• Deliver the GAE inputs to concept development during pre-study
• During concept study – Evaluate alternative concepts for GAE robustness, suggest the changes in the concept, define measurement protocols for suppliers & develop physical verification plan
• Perform the GAE related master verification and physical- virtual correlation
• Ensure cross functional agreements happen and GAE deliverables are met for the entire project scope at each gate
• Analyse the conflicts with respect to demand and recommend the solutions with a QDCF mind-set
• Work on the assigned areas by performing 2D and 3D tolerance studies & optimizing the tolerances to meet the requirements
• Develop the process and tools to increase the efficiency, document the lessons learnt log for each project

As GAE Engineer, you will be doing the following Activities in general:

• Define and maintain aesthetic gap and flush target requirements
• Analyse, Define and maintain BiW , Exterior and Interior datum targets, as per 3-2-1 principle (reference system)
• Perform tolerance calculation for BiW, Exterior and Interior – Build Tolerance simulation/analysis models in RDnT software environment
• Find solutions to deviations from tolerance calculations
• Attend project regular meetings, understand and gather necessary inputs, resolve queries – Interact closely with local and onsite GAE counterparts, Product development engineers, Studio engineers, etc
• Perform functional tolerance calculations apart from Gap and Flush area

Your Profile:

• Sound knowledge & application experience of GD&T – Define datum targets, apply GD&T callouts to BIW, Exterior and Interior components, assign tolerances
• Knowledge about 2D and 3D tolerance stackup & experienced in stack up calculations
• Knowledge about Aesthetical requirements – Gap, Flush, Parallelism, Alignment
• Automotive product development knowledge, dimensional management – Exposure to automotive interiors, exterior & BIW components
• Awareness of manufacturing technologies, processes and achievable tolerances, Knowledge of design and manufacturing requirements & constraints on typical plastic, sheet metal and tubular components
• Knowledge of inspections fixtures, Gages, CMM measurements and methods
• Exposure to statistical analysis of the data
• Catia, RDnT/3DCS/Vis VSA or any 3D tolerance analysis software, PDM link, MS office.
• Clear and crisp in communication.
• Should be team oriented and able to collaborate with cross-functional area’s.
• University degree- Bachelor of Mechanical / Automobile Engineering with 3-5 years of industry experience.

Position – NVH Simulation ENgineer

Volvo Group
Location – Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Position Description

• We at GTT CAB Analysis excel in the area of Strength & Durability, Passive Safety (Collision safety & Collision compatibility), NVH (Noise, Vibration, Harshness), Multi-body Dynamics, Aero-dynamics and Optimization Simulations. We have the responsibility to drive product development activities through Innovation, Frugal Eng. and Robust simulation methods. Also, the mission is to secure feature verification & validation activities for All Trucks, BUS & PENTA Brands in the Volvo Group.

Job description

• Perform Simulation activities and deliver validated results with respect to design targets using CAE Tools.
• Showcase high level of confidence in simulation results by adopting best practices, appropriate assumptions, and required simplifications. Also, suggest recommendations to solve issues.
• Solve High/Mid/Low Frequency issues in Component, Trim body, Full vehicle Levels (Vibration & Acoustics)
• Perform correlation studies with respect to Physical test and support measurements during Tests.
• Perform optimization and a Mindset of continuous improvement supporting common methods and tools.
• Perform automation activities to drive CAE lead time reduction

Qualifications

• MS/M. Tech in Mechanical Engineering is Mandatory
• 3-5 years of CAE experience in Product development from Automotive industry
• Very Good understanding on Structure and Air-Borne Noise simulation
• Highly proficient in CAE Tools like MSC, ESI, Hyper-Works & Beta-CAE.
• Proficient in Multi-disciplinary CAE Durability/NVH is preferred
• Proficient in AI/ML is an added advantage
• Exposure to Physical testing and correlation preferred.
• Growth mindset, communication skills , Emphasis on Detailing & Problem solving skills.

Position – Engineer – Air tanks

Volvo Group
Location – Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Position Description

INTRODUCTION

• GTT (Group Truck Technology), Chassis Bangalore team is looking for an energetic and skilled aspirant to work in the pneumatics components and installation as ENGINEER. If you are looking for a diversified experience by working across different cultures and various global products and be part of the latest trends and technology with great challenges and opportunities in supporting local and global sites, THIS is the right opportunity for you. We wish to create a diverse team with a good mixture of young, dynamic, experienced engineers and managers

THIS IS the US, YOUR NEW COLLEAGUES

• The group consists of passionate and enthusiastic engineers responsible for conceptualizing, designing, developing and delivering the projects in the brake system and installation area. Our objective as Brake System and Vehicle Control team at Volvo is to develop and deliver a robust solution ensuring the right quality, which meets the demands and satisfies the customer requirements. CUSTOMER SUCCESS IS OUR CORE VALUE. We want to make a difference by being there for our customers and by providing the uptime and reliable products. All over the world. Every day.
• Being part of Brake System and Vehicle Control gives an enriched working experience and exposure to the latest trends and technology.
• You’ll have a chance to get hands-on experience with Volvo Group brand products such as VOLVO, Renault, MACK, and UD. This is your chance to join one of the Top Employer companies in India and embrace new career challenges within the automotive industry
• This position will report to the Group Manager for Brake System and Vehicle Control in Chassis Engineering Bangalore.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

• Have operational responsibility for the pneumatic components and installation in the layout.
• Drive the work from an operational perspective.
• Have the capacity to work individually or with a small team actively to secure the deliverables.
• Play an active role in the delivery.
• Integrate deliveries from others and secure quality and readiness before release
• Ensure the deliveries are made as per the requirement and timelines.
• Frequent interactions with their counterparts, clarify the requirements and deliver accordingly.
• Periodic updates about the jobs to the team leader and group manager.
• Develops and implements pneumatic installation projects within the area of assignment including related routing and clipping solutions
• Communicates relevant design and project requirements to external design counterpart as applicable if the detailed design is performed by an outside entity
• Ensures design correctness and completeness for all pneumatic components and installation releases within the area of responsibility

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Customer focus
• Decision quality
• Collaborates
• Action-oriented
• Demonstrates self-awareness
• Ability to analyze and solve complex problems

REQUIRED EDUCATION

• BE/ BTech / M.Tech / MS in Mechanical Engineering or related field

EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, TRAINING

• BE/ BTech / M.Tech/MS in Mechanical Engineering
• 4 to 6 years of automotive experience preferably in the truck industry
• Hands-on experience in the Creo and PDM tool.
• Strong in engineering fundamentals.
• Knowledge in the design and development of sheet metal brackets.
• Knowledge in the Creo piping module is an added advantage.
• Knowledge in mechatronics is an added advantage.
• Basic knowledge of the pneumatic and electrical components.
• Good knowledge about the truck layout and packaging of the components.
• Strong and fluent communication skills.
• Good knowledge of the materials and material selection
• Knowledge and good use of quality tools – SFMEA, DfaM, DFMEA, RCA, etc
• Knowledge of product development cycle
• Knowledge in air tanks is an added advantage

BEHAVIOR COMPETENCIES

• Drive for results – Ability to develop project time plan, set goals and milestones and deliver own items accordingly
• Priority setting -Ability to perform simultaneously in multiple projects
• Team player – Has the ability to cooperate with the project team to meet the established end goal
• Communication – Communicates clearly and effectively, informs appropriately
• Self-improvement and integrity – Is personally committed to and actively works to continuously improve him/herself widely trusted as honest and direct

ARE WE THE PERFECT MATCH?

• Professional challenges and increasing business knowledge
• Defined career path
• Good atmosphere in a professional, developing team working with passion