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Title: Structural Analysis Engineer
Primary Location: Garza Garcia
Function: Engineering (CA)
John Deere is a foremost leader in the ag equipment business, and we continue to put a solid stamp on other industries. For over 150 years, the company’s portfolio of groundbreaking products has grown to include industries related to and outside of agriculture, including Turf, Construction and Forestry and Wind Technologies. The image of John Deere is no longer that of a signature green tractor meandering across a field; it’s been replaced with an image of acceleration, swift progress, and innovative leaping toward the company’s 200th year. The product line alone serves as proof with advances in machine performance, equipment automation, fleet management, and John Deere’s ongoing investment in emerging markets.
Note: All candidates should have their tax situation certificate (Constancia de Siituación Fiscal) up to date with the salary regime to be eligible for the hiring process.
Main Responsibilities
- Perform Structural analysis to support conceptual/preliminary/detailed design of systems and sub-systems of JDPS product lines using various analysis and simulation software
- Independently or under limited guidance from more experienced engineers, prepare analysis approach for the design problems/field failure issues, along with performance criteria, by seeking all available information and using engineering principles.
- Assign, coordinate, guide & review portions of structural analysis work assigned to the support personnel.
- Perform hand calculations to verify the accuracy or to predict outcomes to increase confidence in results wherever applicable.
- Obtain correlation with field/experimental data when field/experimental data is available.
- Compile analysis results into a form that can be easily interpreted and understood by other stakeholders (Design, Test, Product support).
- Schedule and lead analysis reviews to share results with design & PV&V engineers. During these meetings, offer what insight they can provide in order to help solve problems.
- Prior experience with any of the following FEA modeling tools: Hypermesh, Ansys WB.
- Prior experience with any of the following FEA solvers: Optistruct, Abaqus, Ansys WB, Nastran.
- Experience in working as a part of Cross-functional teams. Demonstrated examples of driving design changes through Analysis & Simulation.
- Expert level Knowledge in engineering principles, theory, and practice as well as basic product knowledge.
- Experience with Metal Fatigue & Durability Assessment of I.C. Engine Components.
- Experience with Topology optimization techniques.
- Experience with Test correlation and Test Data Analysis. Exposure to any of the test data analysis tools such as nCode, FE-Safe, FEMFAT.
- Good Communication skills to collaborate with various engineering groups such as design and PV&V.
- Conduct simulation-based design explorations and communicate recommendations for new product introduction programs as well as current product improvement program
Product Domain Knowledge of I.C.Engine.
- Experience in providing mentoring support to the new engineers.
- More than 3 years of experience in FEA related work.
- Experience with any of the scripting languages would be an added advantage: Python, VB, MATLAB.
- Ability to evaluate the relative merits of new technologies for the purpose of creating competitive advantage.
- Thermo Mechanical Fatigue Evaluation of Engine Components.
- Bachelor’s in Engineering/Technology (Mechanical, Automobile, Aerospace, Civil, etc.) with at least 5 years of experience, or Master’s in Engineering/Technology (Mechanical, Automobile, Aerospace, Civil, etc.) with at least 3 year of experience.
This position will be posted for a minimum of 10 business days and unposted when a qualified pool of candidates is achieved.Candidates must have the necessary work permits to work in the country.