Chassis Design Engineer Job in Brussels, Belgium

TOYOTA is one of the world's largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937. Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 300.000 people.

Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities,Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts and accessories, and manages Toyota's European R&D, manufacturing and engineering operations.

Chassis Design Engineer Job Description

The chassis area in the vehicle contains the suspension, electric power steering and driver-control.
TME Chassis Engineering Division’s responsibility is :
1) Local development of Chassis parts for vehicles built in one of Toyota’s European assembly plants. This activity is done in close cooperation with our local suppliers and our mother divisions in Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) in Japan. TMC relies on us to make sure the design is adapted to European customers’ expectations and European suppliers’ production methods.
2) Investigation of new European technologies.
    After investigation and benefit clarification we propose them to TMC for application in future vehicle projects. 

Chassis Design Engineer Job Requirements

Your Responsibilities:
 
As engineer in Chassis Design 1, your main responsibility will be the successful completion of Chassis parts development. This is achieved by the following activities : 
•           during the prototype phase, you will drive the development process of locally-developed parts. Continuously you need your engineering skills to support the suppliers in their development. You make sure the development is finished on time and meets all Toyota’s requirements. For parts developed in Japan, you are the liaison between our mother divisions in TMC and other European parties (assembly plants, suppliers)
•           during the production-preparation phase, the formal design responsibility is handed over to you. You make sure production parts achieve expected performance levels and solve any workability issues in the assembly plants.
During each step of the development, you will focus on cost-reduction and remain vigilant that the parts performance is matching European customers’ expectations.
Your additional responsibility will be to investigate new European technologies in your responsible area. In case a promising technology is found and the benefit for customer and Toyota is confirmed, you set-up a pre-development study. If successfully concluded, you propose it to TMC for application in a future vehicle.
In this position you will report to the teamleader and Senior Manager of the department.
 
Your Profile:
 
 -Master in (Electro-) Mechanical Engineering or Automotive Engineering.
 (for Belgium, this is equivalent to Civil or Industrial Engineer).
-2 to 5 years relevant experience in the design & development of complex mechanical parts.  (Preferably but not mandatory,  in the area of vehicle chassis parts (suspension, steering, brakes, tire).
-Extensive mechanical engineering knowledge
-Project management competence
-Good knowledge of the general vehicle design
-Competence with windows tools : MS Excel, Powerpoint, Word
-A basic know-how of business case making (cost planning, scenario, etc…) is an asset
-Fluent in English. Japanese, German and French are an asset (in reducing order of importance).
-Experience with CATIA v5 and  and FE analysis are an asset
-Willing to travel up to 20% of time in Europe and Japan

Place of Employment:     TME Technical Centre, Zaventem, Belgium 

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