Sr. Engineer- Interconnect Wiring Harness Design (Avionics/Defence)

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Primary Purpose of the Role

He / She contributes to the wiring harness design and interconnection solution activities and performs the hardware design activities required to develop design of a hardware solution / product.

Formalizes the function description, technical requirement and specifications.

Elaborates the specification and the engineering plans used to develop the product.

Performs development activity as per the CHORUS 2.0 process

Year of Experience:

4 to 7 years of experience in wiring harness design and manufacturing industries.

Must have experience in solution proposals on the interconnections, wiring, component packing and printed circuit board.

Must have experience with contents of product Data package (Data files, Definition files, Bill of Material or item list, Documents, components, COTS, Find number, material & processes and standards).

Must have experience in wiring harness design and manufacturing requirement of wiring harness/cable harness.

Must have experience in wiring harness testing and inspection requirements.

Must have experience knowledge in WHMA-620 or IPC-620 standard to define the wiring harness design requirement and quality requirements.

Must have knowledge of military and aerospace standards (like SAE-AS50881) for the wiring harness design

Must have hands on experience in VeSyS2.0 wiring harness design tool and AutoCad.

Should have experience in MS-Office (specially in MS-PowerPoint, MS-Visio and MS-Excel)

Should have experience in Product life cycle/Product configuration.

Should have experience of working with mutli-disciplinary team (Electronics Design, Mechanical design and system engineering teams).

Ensures global consistency of the engineering process, practices and tools, organizes the co-engineering then approves lower level solution element’s or component’s engineering plans including those flown down to the sub-contractors and partners.

Identifies the engineering skills needed to ensure the Bid/Project/Product delivery.

CAD Tools working knowledge:

Desired: CATIA V5, ATIM & MENTOR TOOLS for harness design

Mandatory: WHMA-620, IPC-610, SAE AS50881, MIL-Standards for wiring harness

Strong background of Wiring Harness Design Standards & components knowledge of electrical and wiring harness

Has knowledge is GROUND TRANSPORTATION DOMAIN – Harness design.

Hands on experience in EXCEL automation & basic python scripting

Regular expressions.

Has manufacturing knowledge of cable harness and industry exposure is preferred.

Basic project cost estimations, Project planning, execution and deployment.

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