Mercedes-Benz

Battery Mechanical System Engineer

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Objective of Job\:

  • Development of battery pack mechanical system and/or component by MB inhouse or “buy battery” project, from conceptual phase to serial production.
  • Ensure battery mechanical KPI fulfillment, project milestones, product robustness and cost, via digital development, hardware validation and corresponding optimization loops.
  • Failure analysis and risk assessment to support plant topics and field issue resolution.
  • Change management, documentation for RD release, support lessons-learnt and knowledge sharing.
  • Cross-functional reporting and alignment with stakeholders.

Tasks\:

Battery mechanical system and/or mechanical component development

  • Derive and manage requirements (spec book/KLH inputs) from vehicle / e-Drive to battery mechanical system & component, define design targets and interfaces.
  • Evaluate pack and/or key component design with suppliers, finalize technical concept and design, considering mounting, vehicle crash, bottom damage, structural durability, corrosion, assembly, etc.
  • Drive design maturity through digital development, e.g. DMU, simulation/CAE, etc.
  • Plan and coordinate mechanical system validation (DVP&R) for the battery pack and/or key components
  • Ensure correlation between simulation (CAE) and physical test results
  • Design improvements based on validation results
  • Track supplier for technical documents, drawing, BOM, FMEA, GD&T and release documentation.
  • Change management and documentation.
  • Support Plant try-out / assembly and relevant RD topic in production ramp-up
  • Field issue analysis and resolution


Cross-functional coordination

  • Align with RD battery project manager, e-Drive system, vehicle department on milestones, interfaces (e.g. pack integration, mounting & fixation, mechanical integrity, thermal, HV interface battery internal/external, if relevant) and jointly resolve technical topics in HV battery and e-Drive system.
  • Prepare technical content for design reviews, risk assessments and release (including deviation/waiver proposals when needed).optimization, evidence, and lessons learned for future projects.

Other tasks

  • Optimization and standardization of existing processes, and the implementation of new processes in order to drive efficiency and increase development speed
  • Technical RD contact for MB internal interfaces and our cooperation partner BBAC plant
  • Collecting Chinese market information in terms of market requirements, advanced technology and communication to teams and MB RD in China and Germany