Senior Trim & Lighting Engineer

In this role, you will: Serve as the Trim & Lighting engineering point of contact for the program, coordinating across the body team, suppliers, and internal engineering groups. Own the design and release of attachment and mounting interfaces for interior, exterior, seating, and lighting components. Drive multiple suppliers in parallel across trim, lighting, seating, and exterior commodities, holding each to design, cost, and timeline commitments.

Maximize carryover of components and part numbers, minimizing new part creation and preserving existing designs wherever feasible. Drive attachment solutions that require minimal to no change to existing tooling; assess and document tooling impact with suppliers where changes are unavoidable. Manage interfaces and changes with the body/structures team, translating structural changes into trim, seating, and lighting attachment requirements.

Partner with the Validation team to define and execute component and subsystem validation plans (DVP&Rs). Work across all engineering teams to release parts and assemblies in 3DEXPERIENCE (3DX), owning data quality and change management through release. Apply sound cost judgment in design decisions, including VA/VE, carryover, and should-cost awareness to protect program cost targets.

Present technical direction, anticipate objections, and bring parties together to build consensus on interface and integration decisions. Lead a small team of engineers as needed, defining tasks and providing technical supervision, and lead smaller projects that span multiple teams. Own design and release using CATIA V6, translating system and interface requirements into manufacturable designs.