Employer: Honda Development & Manufacturing of America, LLC

Title: Senior CAE Engineer

Worksite Location: Raymond, Ohio

Duties: Oversee body and/or chassis strength, durability, and marketability CAE simulations. Serve as escalation point for complex and advanced troubleshooting activities that involve multiple stakeholders and deep root cause analyses to be resolved. Follow company guidelines and policies to integrate assigned segment into the vehicle, or to lead a group in doing so. Correlate with pertinent divisions post testing and simulation activities to understand the results and define next steps. Provide guidance to associates and contractors as needed. Typical interactions and correlations at this level are cross-departmental and cross-divisional. Adapt communication style and approach as needed depending on the audience and purpose. Conceive and oversee the development of engineering specifications and standards for the assigned vehicle segment or functions to guide engineering and manufacturing work in the organization and or of its suppliers. Provide direct technical guidance and final oversight to multiple groups. Identify shortcomings and suggest improvements to existing processes, systems, and procedures. Have foresight on impeding problems and do the problem- solving decision matrix on how to fix them. Compile and / or develop documentation (i.e. specification sheets, evaluation documents) to record and submit all necessary information as the development process moves forward. Review documents prepared by PICs and junior engineers for completeness and quality check. Provide guidance to others as needed. Manage relationships with internal stakeholders and counterparts, building high levels of professional credibility and mutual trust. Manage inter-Honda company issues and coordinate internal resources. Provide reporting regarding large project status and deliverables. Serve as a subject matter expert status in own area of technology or function. Maintain or obtain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulations and industry best practices through continuing professional development, conferences, and specialist publications. Develop programs utilizing Matlab/Python/C++ to generate custom outputs from Simulation data as well as to automate CAE processes. Understand CATIA V5/V6 CAD data structure. Generate mock-up shapes in CATIA and retrieve part properties for simulation.

Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. 6 years of experience in the automotive or related industry with emphasis on structural analysis. 5 years of experience in Abaqus / ANSYS (or an Equivalent FE Tool), finite element theory, static, dynamic mechanics simulation methods, solver settings, error handling, Validation and Verification - Hand calcs, Energy checks, and Force balance checks. 5 years of experience in Ansa / Hypermesh or any similar pre-processor, translating CAD data, generating mesh, connecting subsystems, creating simulation decks with mesh, loading, and boundary conditions. 5 years of experience with Non-Linear material modeling - Plasticity - Isotropic and Kinematic; Hyper Elastic - Rubbers / membranes. 5 years of experience in Meta or Hyperview post-processors, analyzing simulation output/structural behavior, and root cause analysis. 5 years of experience in nCode/ Fe-Safe or Equivalent Fatigue Life Calculation tools, fatigue theory, stress/strain-life estimation methods, and hand calculations. 3 years of experience in CATIA V5/ V6/ Solid works / Siemens NX / or any CAD tool, in

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