Design - Frame & Safety Attachments

The role focuses on delivering robust, lightweight, manufacturable, and regulation-compliant solutions for global markets while ensuring vehicle safety, durability, and platform standardization.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and develop:

• Frame attachments like fender, fender brackets, accessory brackets
  • Fifth wheel coupling
  • Catwalk platform
  • HV safety components positioning and mounting
  • Rear Underrun Protection Device (RUPD)
  • Side Underrun Protection Device (SUPD)
  • Front and Rear Tow Hooks
  • Mounting brackets and reinforcement structures
  • Recovery interfaces and associated frame attachments
• Develop modular solutions compatible with multiple Mercedes-Benz and BharatBenz vehicle platforms.
• Define packaging concepts considering:
  • Frame architecture & Rear overhang
  • Axle configurations & Suspension movement
  • Body builder requirements
• Ensure compliance with global regulations and standards, including:
  • UNECE R58 (Rear Underrun Protection)
  • UNECE R73 (Side Underrun Protection)
  • Regional homologation and customer-specific requirements
• Perform structural assessments for:
  • Static strength & Dynamic loading
  • Recovery and towing loads
  • Fatigue durability
  • Corrosion performance
  • Vehicle integration
• Optimize designs for:
  • Weight reduction & Cost efficiency
  • Manufacturability
  • Commonality across vehicle platforms
• Develop 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, and BOMs.
• Collaborate with global engineering teams, manufacturing, purchasing, suppliers, homologation, and testing departments.
• Support prototype builds, validation testing, homologation activities, and production launch.
• Investigate field failures, perform root cause analysis, and implement robust corrective actions.
• Drive continuous improvement, innovation, and global standardization of structural safety components.

Key Deliverables:

• Production-ready RUPD, SUPD, and Tow Hook designs
• CAD models and engineering drawings
• Design release documentation
• Structural analysis and validation reports
• Homologation support documentation
• Weight and cost optimization proposals
• Engineering change management and issue resolution

Success Measures:

• Compliance with global safety regulations
• Achievement of durability and strength targets
• On-time design releases
• Weight and cost reduction achievements
• Manufacturing quality and launch readiness
• Reduction in field failures and warranty issues

Increased platform commonality and modularity across global products

Technical Competencies:

• Heavy-Duty Commercial Vehicle Chassis Design and 3 to 10 year of experience
• Structural Design of Safety Components
• RUPD & SUPD Regulations (UNECE R58 & R73)
• Tow Hook & Recovery Load Design
• Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• Fatigue & Durability Engineering
• Welded and Bolted Joint Design
• High-Strength Steel Applications
• GD&T and Engineering Drawings
• DFMEA, DVP&R, APQP
• Manufacturing Processes (Stamping, Bending, Welding, Machining)
• Cost Optimization and Value Engineering

Bachelor's or Masters in Mechanical Engineering or Automobile