Rob Hill

Principal Mechanical Engineer in customer facing role. Responsible for design and development of automotive transmission solutions and supervision of another Design Engineer.

- Solidworks design and simulation for driveline components (dampers, clutch, spring systems, etc...)

- Concept development

- Design of assembly and production tooling / work holding

- GD&T and creation of production drawings and drawing approval

- Build and characterisation of prototype systems

- Newtonian design calculations for development work

- Report writing

Mechanical sub-system expert enabling effective working relationships between international colleagues, customers and suppliers. Comfortable working in a cross-functional team. Key functions include:

- Sub-system design leader for GM GEM project. Being the first point of contact for all sensor related issues.

- Mechanical sub-system expert. Creating and presenting training material which is used to teach and inform student engineers, new starters, manufacturing and quality personnel and other sub-system engineers the details of the sub-system design, history and design reasoning of the product.

- Pivotal role as change management process expert for the sub-system team. Including project work within several PLM systems.

- A regular presenter and panel member of the Change Review Board.

- Responsible for sub-system component and assembly engineering drawings (including CAD data and BOM management).

- Detailed design using GD&T and tolerance stack-ups.

- Concept development using DFM and DFA approaches.

- Proficient in the use of the DRBFM tool.

- Owner and developer of the sensor packaging envelope, providing clear physical requirements for sensor suppliers and neighbouring sub-systems.

- Sensor supplier mechanical interface engineer. Guiding suppliers on how to design and package their product into the appropriate sub-system.

- Engineering representative for sensor turned parts, focused on international supplier development, cost down packages and quality improvements.