Kiran G.

Experience

• Product Design Engineer Faurecia Automotive India Pvt. Ltd · Full-time Oct 2017 – Present 8 yrs 3 mos Pune, MH, India • Complete product life cycle from concept, quotation, program award, product development, post SOP support & lesson learned utilizing the global program management.
  • Design & development of Complete Seat to meet the requirements of Safety, Packaging and comfort.
  • Creation of Component level Drawings and Assembly drawings of Seat structure.
  • Ensured all SC/CC are cascaded from DFMEA to drawings.
  • Responsible for Design of Seat structure and its Packaging.
  • Collaborating with Cross Functional Team (CFT) like Production, Quality, & Program Management to meet Product Requirements, Signoffs as per program time.
  
  • Complete Seat Structure Sub-Assembly & Assembly creation by considering sequence, manufacturing/ welding feasibility.
  • Deciding Assembly Process constraints based on guidelines.
  • Change management (ECNs/ECMs).
  • Uploading revised CAD files to PDM.
  • Hand Calculation for Luggage Retention Load on Seat Back, Force and effort calculation, Shear and Tensile Strength of Part etc.
  • Proficient with design and validation of seat structure to meet critical safety regulation requirements.
  • Deciding Assembly Process constraints based on guidelines.
  • Design optimization of sheet metal part for FEA failure.
  • Preparing cad proposals for seating structure and mechanism packaging
  • Product Life Cycle Management of Automotive Seat
  • Creation of Kinematics skeleton for checking functionality & performance of seat.
  • Identifying issues faced by the JIT assembly plant. Finding out solutions by using proprietary processes, methodologies to provide engineering solutions.
  • Architecture- Seat drawing (Safety, Environment, Packaging and Comfort).
  • Checking product specification, safety and comfort related issues.
  • Creation of Kinematics skeleton for checking functionality & performance of seat.
  • Tolerance Stack Up.
  • Complete Seat variant Management with Kinematics preparation.
  • Design concepts and perform Complete Seat packaging studies.
• Design Engineer (Contractual through Finite 4 Technologies, Pune) TATA JOHNSON CONTROLS, PUNE · Full-time Jul 2013 – Mar 2025 11 yrs 8 mos Pune, MH, India • Worked with design team on Driver & co-driver seats design and development.
  • Designed Flip-Up Bed Arrangement in available space between Driver & Co-driver Seat.
  • Designed & modeled seat structure.
  • Studying seat functionality by using kinematics.
  • Assembly built with customer requirement.
  • Making visual-bill of material by specifying cad weight as per assembly level.
  • Creating part, assembly drawings and applying GD&T, welding details etc.
• Design Engineer MAGNA SEATING, PUNE (Div. of Magna International) · Full-time May 2013 – Feb 2025 11 yrs 9 mos Pune, MH, India • Worked on Driver, Co-driver & 2nd row seats for 3 variants: High-Mid-Base
  • Daily coordination with Mahindra & MSKH (PLANT) Engineers for technical issues.
  • Create & review of complete seat layouts, part & assembly drawings.
  • Giving functional tolerance & annotation in 3D cad.
  • Interaction with suppliers & design teams for product development &resolving product issues.
  • Providing design support at all stages of the design process
• Sr. Design Engineer Adient India Pvt. Ltd · Full-time Feb 2014 – Oct 2017 3 yrs 8 mos Pune, MH, India • Modeling proposals compare the various proposals and suggest best proposal to customer.
  • Reviews of final design for manufacturability.
  • Cad modeling of Sheet metal & Plastic components with design specification,
  • Create drawings and apply GD&T, critical and significant characteristics.
  • Ensure that prototype samples meet appearance and functional performance standards.
  • Creation of complete seat layouts (Safety, Environment, Packaging and Comfort).
  • Evaluate seat mechanism with help of kinematics and interpret results.
  • Perform studies to benchmark and evaluate competing design proposals.
  • Making Poka-yoke proposals for lean manufacturing of automotive components.
  • Generate bill of materials; maintain open issues lists, and typical engineering documents.
  • Update PPAP drawing, Component & Assembly drawings.