Chetan Jain

About Chetan Jain

Experienced Lead design & development Engineer with 13 years of experience in Automotive Interiors, Innovation, patents. Skilled in design & development (Product Design & development, testing, validation & regulations, communication, Team handling, Premium interior products ).Contributions: Tesla model S plaid, Vinfast President car, Vinfast SUV and Sedan, Innovation projects, Tata Nexon, Renault Espace,Ford Endeavor, Renault Traffic,Ford Traffic, VW beetle, Mercedes-Benz M-Class, Ford Transit, Ford Focus, Peugeot 508 6+ Years of Experience in Automotive Interior Trims Design for different OEM’s (Ford, Renault, Peugeot, VW, Daimler, TATA, VinFast, Tesla).2+ Years of Experience in Leading Offshore Design Activities2+ Years of Experience in Automotive Interior Components and Trims Development1+ Year of Experience in Innovation projects Specialties:** Detailed Plastic component Design for Automotive mechanisms (Interior) & IP, Center console** Automotive mechanisms (Interior) component and Subsystem Development.** Offshore Design Team Leadership, Product Development: Mechanism, Center console, glove box, trays Design Validation Process, Engineering Change Management, dfmea, validation and serial production.** Sound with new concept design & development including testing, validation, regulations along with Patenting and Publications with 10 patents under name of Faurecia as Patentee & myself as inventor (11 Inventions)(10-India, 1-US, Extensions, 1-Germany, 3-US, 5-France, 3-China)[(3 patents are in production phase)(10 patents published)(3 patents granted)] in the field of cockpit, mechanisms and comfort **Communication with customer (OEM’s like Ford, TATA, Vinfast) & suppliers for queries and design proposals

Experience

1. Lead Development Engineer

   Faurecia

   Apr 2019 — Present

   Working for Vinfast -(from Feb-2018 )Responsibilities-* Communication with OEM’s, resident engineer* Communication with supplier for standard parts, design changes requirement.* Engineering Change Management (Engineering Leadership)* Coordination with Plant, Program, Purchase, Sales & Quality teams for investigations & Engineering Changes* Product Safety Related Production Data & Tests Data Monitoring & Analysis* Team handling involving resource planning, in-process inspection, design & development along with product Testing - Validation, and co-ordination with internal departments & external suppliers & customers along with Mentoring-Guiding GET & junior engineers.* DFMEA, DV, tolerance stack up dimension calculations* Design activity with concept creations for automotive interior mechanism including packaging of Complete product (Main assembly, sub assembly), with analysis & proposals.

Education

• KCES'S MOOLJEE JAITHA COLLEGE, JALGAON.

  Junior College, Science

  2000 — 2002

• GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, JALGAON.

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (Dfmea)
• Catia
• Cad/Cam Software
• Fmea
• Plastics
• Mechanisms
• Product Design
• Microsoft Office
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Product Development
• Teamcenter
• Ppap
• Patent