Position Description Format
Position Name
Engineer Crash Simulation, Crash & safety
Position level
L5
DEM position name
Lead Crash Simulation full vehicle, Crash & safety
DEM position level
L4
FEM position name
NA
FEM position level
NA
Purpose of the position
- Why the positions exists
- What will happen if there is no one in the position (no one performs the work)
Responsible for conducting Structural CAE simulations for Full vehicle, sub-system, component, pedestrian, defense and capability development related work. He/she is also responsible for performing detailed analysis of CAE simulations, prepare report and provide solution to achieve the performance target requirements for the product being developed.
If no one is appointed in this position then the team will not have direction to perform CAE simulations, perform detailed analysis of CAE results and provide solutions to meet performance target requirements. Also there will be no one to liaison between CAE and other functions.
Dimensions of the position
Financial: NA
Non-financial:
Total reportees under this position :
Communications
Stakeholder
Internal/External
Nature of relations
Frequency
Head Crash & Safety
Internal
- CAE analysis reviews
- Process document reviews
- Capability project reviews
Safety integration team
Internal
- CAE simulation schedule discussions
- CAE simulation planning
Restraints team
Internal
- CAE data sharing for restraints simulations
Structural CAE team
Internal
- Test Vs CAE correlation study
Methods development team
Internal
- Capability development related work
COC, Design teams, PLM team, Vehicle Integration
External
- Download CAD and BOM information required for creating Full vehicle model for CAE analysis purpose.
Digital solutions, NVH CAE
External
- VPG level design feedback to design and projects teams.
Proto-shop
External
- Design intent prototypes and required test output data for CAE validation.
Personal Profile
Education
Graduate / Post graduate in Mechanical, Automobile Engineering
Competencies (Example)
Behavioural: -
- Drive for results
- People development
- Functional excellence
- Innovation management
- Taking ownership
- Customer focus
Functional: -
- Knowledge of vehicle construction & principles in design
- Knowledge of safety regulations of India and Europe.
- Knowledge of Global NCAP and EuroNCAP protocols.
- Knowledge of CAE simulation tools and techniques (LS Dyna, Hypermesh, Primer, Lspre Post).
- Knowledge of IPR
- Knowledge of EPS and 8D tools.
- Knowledge of occupant safety in different types of crash tests.
Relevant Experience :
3-8 years of experience in the field of Automotive structural CAE
Key Responsibilities:
S.N.
Key Responsibility & Key Tasks
Measures
1
- Structural crash simulations to analyse the vehicle structure to meet differenet crash safety requirement as per planned DVP and propose design improvements under the guidance of CAE lead engineer.
2
Activities Which Aid Primary Tasks
- Benchmarking study of competitors products.
- CAD data, BOM data download from PLM system
- FE model building of full vehicle model for crash analysis at various phases of product development.
- Create simulation set-up and and complete the simulations for various load cases as per DVP plan.
- Post process and analyse the crash performance of proposed vehicle design against target crash perfromance.
- Create analysis report to highlight current status of performance target achievement and improvement required in the design if targets are not met.
- Prepare and release analysis reports to provide design feedback to design and project teams at appropriate milestones in the project.
- Provide countermeasures to meet target crash performance under the guidance of CAE lead engineer and interactions with design teams and other cross funactional teams.
- Execute CAE correlation activity under the guidance of CAE lead engineer.
- FE model /CAE data management for assigned projects along with FE model documentation.
- Study new updates and new feature added in pre and post processing software and Solver.
- Plan for CAD data download and FE model building activity as per program timeline plans.
- Plan for benchmarking of vehicles as per specified program requirement.
- Plan and execute CAE analysis for specified load cases as per vehicle DVP
- Plan for CAE data backup / archival at regular intervals and at various project Milestones.
- Plan for necessary component and sub-system level tests for correlation study.
- FE model building, simulations, results analysis and report preparation.
- Vehicle FE model and simulation results data archival for future reference.
3
Development of new systems, policies, procedures, concepts: -
- Development of new / improvement of existing capabilities and analysis methods to address complete vehicle design validation in digital environment under the guidance of CAE lead engineer.
- Develop new simulation techniques to achieve light weight, high quality, optimised product design giving robust product performance anticipating upcoming technology changes under the guidance of CAE lead engineer.
- Develop new work guidelines for crash simulation work/ updating existing work guidelines under the guidance of CAE lead engineer.