Body Test and Validation Engineer

Description

Are you a Body Test and Validation Engineer looking to join one of the top companies in the Automotive Manufacturing industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have automotive interior or exterior validation and testing experience at OEM, Tier-1 supplier, or Test Lab?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions is seeking highly qualified candidates to work onsite with our client in Newark, CA. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• Own and drive hardware testing and validation duties for body systems and components such as instrument panel, center console, door trims, soft trims, hard trims, and DMS (Displays, mechanism and switches) as well as vehicle accessories.
• Coordinate tests from setup through execution and reporting, including test planning, development, execution, inspections, root cause analysis, and data processing.
• Design and fabricate custom test fixtures for complex bench test setups.
• Ensure test findings are well-documented and quickly communicated, root cause test failures, and work with design, quality, and manufacturing partners.
• Tracking test schedules and timelines with external test houses and T1 suppliers to ensure test schedules are met, and test results are accurate and as expected.
• Test parts quantity definition and parts logistic coordination.
• Create and maintain client validation documentation (DVPR, test specifications, test protocols, test reports) and participate in root cause analysis with the design release engineering team where applicable.
• Coordinate and manage internal OEM high-level tests.
• Review test reports and prepare a test results summary to communicate to DREs.
• Drive DVP's sign-off for PPAP/LQP on time to enable product salability (SOP).

Here's what you'll get:

• Pay rate: $75.00/Hour.
• Hours: 40 Hours/Week
• Length: Temp (10 Months)

Sound like a good fit?

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About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Job Requirements Required Skills / Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
• Minimum 5 years of automotive interior or exterior validation and testing experience at OEM, Tier-1 supplier, or Test Lab
• Minimum 5 years of experience using CAD software such as CATIA, 3DX, or SolidWorks.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with common automotive manufacturing and finishing processes (plastic injection molding, press lamination, hand wrapping, back injection, painting, chrome plating, IMD/IML, etc.)
• Minimum 5 years of experience using standard lab test equipment such as environmental chambers, shaker tables, power supplies, DAQs, force transducers, torque transducers, pneumatic and servo electric actuators, thermocouples, strain gages, LVDTs, etc.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with FMVSS and other international regulatory requirements for interior components.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence

Preferred Skills / Qualifications:

• Experience with interior materials (plastics, polymers, fabrics, foams) and interior design and assembly strategies (clips, adhesives, fasteners, welding)
• Knowledge of validation milestones along the overall Product Development Process.
• Great organizational skills and interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.