CAE Engineer Durability

CAE Engineer Durability

At Research & Development you will be a key contributor to the next generation outstanding luxury cars from Volvo. Together with other engineers around the world, you and your team will create innovative human-centric car technology that makes life less complicated and more enjoyable for people. Are you interested in design and connected car technology? Do you share our passion for people, the environment and our urge to create a superior driving experience? Research and Development is the place for you to prosper.

The Durability department consists of two CAE and six test groups. The department is responsible for the attributes Strength & Endurance, Corrosion, Retained Newness and Fire Safety. The responsibility includes target setting and analyses & verification by use of CAE, testing in lab and on proving ground. The CAE teams perform strength, fatigue and load analyses for the design areas Body and Exterior, Interior, and Chassis, mainly in the development phase in new car projects.

As a CAE Engineer Durability you will work with strength and fatigue analysis in car projects and also contribute to our method development. The tasks vary from component and system analyses to full car simulations. The CAE groups work with Finite Element analysis of metallic thin sheet welded structures as well as solid casted components. A new challenge is to analyse plastic and composite materials subjected both to mechanical and thermal loads.

Main responsibilities

* Gathering of necessary background information, modeling, analyses and recommendations to the design engineers
* Report to task leader within the CAE team who leads and distributes the tasks of the team within each car project
* Work closely with design engineers, attribute leaders and test engineers

Required qualifications

* M.Sc. in Mechanical, Civil Engineering or similar
* Good knowledge about mechanics and dynamics and/or strength of materials corresponding master-level courses
* Good knowledge of Finite Element simulations
* Fluent in English, written and spoken
* An asset would be knowledge of FE tools ANSA, Nastran, ABAQUS and LS Dyna
* Topology optimization tools such as OptiStruct or similar is meritorious
* MBS simulations, preferably in Adams/Car is meritorious

Personal qualities

* Strong analytical capability
* Ability to both work independently and in teams
* Strong communication skills as well as a positive mind set

About Volvo Car Group
The future belongs to those who are empowered by a great idea and have the ability to carry it out. At Volvo Car Group, our vision is clear: "To be the world's most progressive and desired luxury car brand" by simplifying people's lives. We have bold targets when it comes to innovation, sales and customer satisfaction and to make this happen, we need talented people onboard. People with passion, energy, business sense and the drive to innovate. People that want to create the next generation Volvo cars in a global, dynamic and respectful environment. We will support you to reach your full potential. Join us on this exciting journey into the future.

Contact
In this recruitment process we are collaborating with Randstad Professionals. If you have any questions regarding the position you are welcome to contact the responsible recruitment consultant Emilie Hedman at +46 729 - 88 98 27 by e-mail emilie.hedman@randstad.se.

Interviews will be held continuously. To apply, please register your profile and attach your application documents via the link below as soon as possible but no later then August 26th, 2015.