Senior Engineer CAE

What can you expect?

Manage complex CAE projects to support development of automotive seating systems and components.

Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. With 70,000+ employees in 30 countries, Adient operates more than 200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual foam, trim and metal components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year.


What will your responsibilities be?

• Independently lead CAE activities for his program(s)
• Frequent interaction with internal customer, occasionally serving as primary customer interface for CAE
• Regularly collaborate with other Adient CAE engineers (on-site, off-shore, 3rd party supplier)
• Project management regarding timing & deliverables
• Reporting on overall CAE status
• Support for CAE quote creation for upcoming programs
• Serve as CAE interface with internal customer and external OEM customer
• Ensure that Adient CAE methods are followed and applied. Collaborate with CAE colleagues and SDT to make decisions about when to implement the latest CAE methods
• Specify all inputs required for CAE and collect from design team
• Participate in ATR/PTS meetings and drive principles/practices within the SDT to ensure that detailed test methods are defined and aligned
• Supervise the pre-post-process of FEA results using software such as ANSA / META-Post
• Run explicit and implicit FEA jobs on our compute cluster
• Occasionally perform Multi body simulations (ADAMS)
• Review regularly FE models, reports, etc. Ensure quality of results
• Drive discussions with SDT to define strategy for design robustness and variation (setting nominal design targets in FEA, performing robustness studies, etc.)
• Identify opportunities to potentially apply CAE optimization tools and propose to CAE optimization experts and the design team. Drive optimization into programs
• Attend physical tests to support comparisons/correlations with FEA predictions. Lead post-test correlation investigations.

Additional Tasks:
• Advise design teams on the multiple contributors to FEA-Test correlation, including basic FEA-Test alignment (seat design level and detailed test methods), part & test tolerance variation, and FEA modeling approximation
• Periodically conduct basic engineering analysis hand calculations (FBD, stress analysis, etc.) to supplement and/or sanity-check FEA simulations

Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?

• Bachelor's Degree or above (Mechanical Engineering or related field)
• Strong academic performance in core engineering analysis disciplines, particularly statics, dynamics, and mechanics
• Years of experience in Engineering: 6 years minimum (preferably related to automotive seating)
• Years of experience in CAE & Structural Analysis: 4 years minimum
• English - C1 - advanced

Core CAE Software:
• Strong Ability: Seat model assembly (ANSA); FEA post-processing (Meta); FEA solver (LS-Dyna, PAM-Crash), Multibody simulations (ADAMS)
• Basic Ability: Meshing


Seat Design, Analysis and CAE:
• Expert Knowledge: Seating load case knowledge for most load cases (regulations, physics, key test method details, sources of variation, seat design enablers, etc.)
• Expert Ability: Interpretation of CAE & Test results (insight extracted; design recommendations provided)
• Strong Ability: BEA hand calculations; seating load case set-up and analysis in FEA (most load cases); understanding of Adient CAE methods

Which benefits do we offer?

• Base monthly salary starting from XX Eur gross. Our salary is fair and competitive and can be higher than the starting minimum written in the advert.
• 13th salary
• Additional holiday days based on seniority
• Meal vouchers - 7€ (fully paid by employer)
• Language courses, trainings
• Childbirth/Wedding allowance, Relocation support, Referral bonus, Blood donation allowance
• Coffee and tea at workplace, own canteen
• Employee wellbeing – massages at the workplace, sport activities; 7-10 days of fully paid sickness within a year, life insurance, vitamin voucher
• Employee Assistance Program "Felix" – psychological, financial and legal support
• Stable, long-term employment in strong international company with friendly working atmosphere
• Opportunity to collaborate on volunteering activities
• Flexible working time, Hybrid Work Model – combination of home office (including limited days of work from abroad) and work from the office
• Work on latest projects in automotive seats development

We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date.

If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Isabell Atienza on +492174651877.