Ride Engineer
Date: Dec 13, 2024
Location: Hosur, IN
Company: Tenneco
- Performing Damper tuning for all body on frame and monocoque vehicles in Ride and Handling track and optimize the valve settings with compliance of valve calculation tool and design rule.
- Evaluating subjective and objective R&H parameters for benchmark and project vehicles and prepare reports.
- Maintain standard design rules for shock/strut dimensioning, tolerances, characteristics, and valving… (on application level/ noncore component)
- Act as expert in vehicle Dynamics
- Bush Tuning for optimized Ride and Handling in selected test tracks.
- Supports Technical Project Leaders/Application engineering team.
Note: Technical project leader can perform calculation, gets advice from competence center
- Maintain skills in valving towards vehicle performance on ride work.
- Maintain skills in vehicle dynamics & damper influence in R&H.
- Freeze the valve code within the design rule and customer satisfactory based on R&H
- Support TPL by providing ride work report.
- Maintain ride bus./Equipment’s/Tools/Machines etc.
- Continues support to customer requirements in R&H.
- Flexibility on travel (within India) must require.
- Based on need and necessity abroad travel would require.
- Co-ordinate customer specification change request
- Test Track Knowledge:
- Different ride tracks & their influence on R&H
- Selecting ride tracks according to application
- Support TPL if any damping force not matching with sealed damper
- Support TPL for ride kit preparation
- Get knowledge from Global team on new valve technology and provide demonstration to OEM and prove our technology with respect to R&H.
- Support post ride work activities like R&H confirmation on sealed dampers if any
- Drive multiple projects Ride work requirement.
- Involve and paly role in Problem Solving and failure mode analysis.
- Support Warranty concern from OEM or end customer.