Intermediate, RGBSI – Onsite Stellantis Automobiles, Detroit, USA

5 years 7 months

Design Release Engineer

July’16 – Feb’22

• Responsible for component design, development, packaging, validation and release of lambda and exhaust gas temp sensors for light duty and heavy duty diesel engines.
• Managed engineering changes, component specifications, bill of materials, 2D drawing creation, GD&T and torque testing.
• Reviewed and approved supplier DFMEA, DVP&R, Forever requirement changes, PV testing and PPAP development.
• Investigated component DV/PV test failures, review 8D’s to diagnose the root cause and made appropriate design recommendations to suppliers.
• Supported various diesel plant builds and assist plant in developing assembly process, solving process issues and packaging issues.
• Investigate field warranty issues and resolve them with quality improvements to improve warranty.
• Data acquisition with INCA, vehicle level testing (Davis Dam & FTP 75) for emissions transparency testing and quality analysis of exhaust sensors like EGT, NOx, Differential pressure sensor and WRO2 sensor.
• Performed benchmark on other OEM components and worked for total cost savings.
• Received an early promotion (from Associate to Intermediate)
• Lead regular meetings with manufacturing, quality, sales, application engineers and program management to address all aspects of product and assure smooth production launch.
• Created future specification requirements for PM sensor according to MY 2025 emission standards