CVG
Application Engineer - Seats
Vonore, Tennessee, USA · Full-time
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About the role
- The Application Engineer - Seating designs, develops, and tests new seat and seating products for commercial vehicle and off-highway applications.
- This role serves as the technical interface between CVG and its customers, working closely with OEMs and cross-functional internal teams to adapt CVG's seating products to specific customer requirements while driving continuous quality and cost improvement.
Responsibilities
- Product Design & Development
- Lead the design, development, testing, and documentation of new seats and seating products using inputs from the cross-functional team
- perform or support FEA, mold flow evaluations, and proof-of-principle models to verify design concepts for mechanisms, plastics, stampings, and foam.
- Develop and maintain DFMEA and DVPR for programs and changes
- coordinate testing of existing and new products to validate FMVSS and customer requirements
- manage program refreshes and new program launches through design, testing, and sample stages to support smooth customer launch.
- Customer Engagement & Technical Support
- communicate and manage all changes, deviations, and VA/VE for product with the customer
- Develop and maintain DFMEA and DVPR for programs and changes; coordinate testing of existing and new products to validate FMVSS and customer requirements; manage program refreshes and new program launches through design, testing, and sample stages to support smooth customer launch.
- Provide technical assistance to customer engineering personnel on existing and potential new products; communicate and manage all changes, deviations, and VA/VE for product with the customer; work with OEM engineers to understand their needs and adapt CVG products to specific applications.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline.
- 2+ years of experience in vehicle manufacturing (OE or supplier).
- proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- ability to work under tight timelines while managing multiple concurrent tasks
Nice to have
- Design experience with mechanisms, plastic, foam, and/or upholstery
- experience with BOM management within an AS400 or similar ERP system.
- familiarity with DFMEA/PFMEA, PPAP, and customer launch activities
- experience interpreting customer specifications, engineering drawings, and OEM-specific standards (SAE, ISO).
Company info
- Visa Sponsorship At this time, we are not providing sponsorship for this role.
Visa & Work Authorization
- At this time, we are not providing sponsorship for this role.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the country of the job posting location on a full-time basis.
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