Akkodis is hiring a CAE Engineer L3 for an automotive manufacturer located in Raymond, OH (Onsite).

Pay Range: $52.00/hour to 58.00/hour. The pay may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Contract: at least 12 months (strong potential for extension)

Onsite: Raymond, OH

This role will support CAE development activities for complex full vehicle and system-level CAE model construction, visualization, and analysis for Automotive Body-In-White (BIW)/Chassis/Powertrain Performance Evaluation and Specification setting.

Responsibilities

Utilize Hypermesh/Ansa for Construction of high-quality FE meshes and models of the complete body, chassis subsystems and Power Unit

Conducting FE solutions using Optistruct for Strength, Stiffness and Topology Optimization Evaluation

Conducting FE solutions using Nastran for Noise, Vibration, Harshness (NVH) Performance and Evaluation

Conducting FE solutions using Abaqus for Durability Performance and Evaluation

Utilize Simpack/Matlab/Simulink to build Vehicle Models for Handling Performance and Evaluation

Interpret data, develop and report countermeasures using Hyperworks/Metapost for post-processing

Optimize and correlate analyses with real-world test results.

Communicates effectively within the group about issues, and outside the group to accomplish goals

Analyze and resolve problems with moderate level of guidance and direction.

Lead research activities to develop new and improve existing CAE methods

Utilizes Excel to create and update project schedules

Travel to client site required

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Education with the following specialties preferred: Mechanical, Mechanical Technology, Aerospace, Automotive

10 years of experience as CAE analyst for Full Vehicle NVH including Modal Analysis, Frequency Response Analysis, and Acoustic Sensitivity with and solvers Optistruct and Nastran.

Experience with 3D FEA analysis in domains such as component strength and durability, noise and vibration of total vehicle/system/component transfer, and/or vehicle systems modeling for automotive power unit and chassis systems (engine, motor, transmission, battery, suspension, brake, steering, body-in-white)

Experience using pre-processor (Hypermesh/Ansa), post-processor (Hyperworks/Metapost), solver tools (Optistruct/Abaqus/Nastran), Matlab/Simulink for complex vehicle system-level CAE model construction, visualization, and analysis

CAD (CATIA V5/V6) design experience preferred

Strong Microsoft Office skills, including excel

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