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Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida and has other operational offices and sites spread across Delhi, Gurugram, Bengaluru and Mumbai, among others. Over 2200 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Aerospace and Cyber & Digital sectors. Thales has two engineering competence centres in India - one in Noida focused on Cyber & Digital business, while the one in Bengaluru focuses on hardware, software and systems engineering capabilities for both the civil and defence sectors, serving global needs. The Group has also established an MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) facility in Gurugram to provide comprehensive avionics maintenance and repair services to Indian airlines and support the growth of the local aviation industry.Technical Lead -Wiring Harness Interconnect
Primary Purpose of the Role
He / She contributes to the wiring harness design and interconnection solution activities and performs the hardware design activities required to develop design of a hardware solution / product.
Formalizes the function description, technical requirement and specifications.
Elaborates the specification and the engineering plans used to develop the product (production of the Data Package Definition Files).
Performs development activity as per the CHORUS 2.0 process.
Key Responsibilities and Tasks
Must have experience in solution proposals on the interconnections, wiring, component packing and printed circuit board.
Must have experience with contents of product Data package (Data files, Definition files, Bill of Material or item list, Documents, components, COTS, Find number, material & processes and standards).
Must have experience in wiring harness design and manufacturing requirement of wiring harness/cable harness.
Must have experience in wiring harness testing and inspection requirements.
Must have experience knowledge in WHMA-620 or IPC-620 standard to define the wiring harness design requirement and quality requirements.
Must have knowledge of military and aerospace standards (like DO 160, MIL STD 461,..) for the wiring harness design
Must have hands on experience in SEE ELECTRICAL EXPERT and Microsoft Visio
Should have experience of working with mutli-disciplinary team (Electronics Design, Mechanical design and system engineering teams).
Ensures global consistency of the engineering process, practices and tools, organizes the co-engineering then approves lower-level solution elements or component’s engineering plans including those flown down to the sub-contractors and partners.
Skills Required
Essential
CAD Tools working knowledge:
Mandatory: SEE ELECTRICAL EXPERT, MS-VISIO 2016,
Design Standards:
Mandatory: WHMA-620, IPC-610, MIL-Standards for wiring harness
Strong background of Wiring Harness Design Standards & components knowledge of electrical and wiring harness
Has manufacturing knowledge of cable harness and industry exposure is preferred.
Basic project cost estimations, Project planning, execution and deployment.
Desirable
Knowledge in wiring harness design, database creation, wiring harness components and product configuration.
Years of experience
8 to 12 years of experience in wiring harness design and manufacturing industries.
Educational Qualification
Bachelor's degree in engineering in Electronics/Electrical Engineer
Certifications
IPC-620, IPC-610, CAD Certification
Technologies and Programming Languages
EMI / EMC Requirements, Cable Harness inspection and Testing requirements
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