Job Description
SKF INDIA LIMITED
Who we are
SKF is the world leading supplier of products and solutions in the rolling bearing business including technical support, maintenance services, condition monitoring and training. The inherent skills and competence of our around 40,000 employees help us to fulfil our objective of creating more intelligent, sustainable, and innovative customer solutions. SKF is a truly global company with presence in more than 130 countries, serving an extensive range of industries and customers
worldwide.
SKF started its operations in India in 1+23. Over the years the company has evolved from being a
pioneer ball bearing manufacturing company to a knowledge-driven engineering company helping customers achieve sustainable and competitive business excellence. SKF has a pan India footprint consisting of 6 manufacturing facilities, 12 offices, a supplier network of over 300 distributors and an employee base of more than 2600 dedicated professionals.
SKF Global Technical Centre India (GTCI)
Automotive Engineering – PV Wheel-End and Drive Controls
Position: Lead Engineer or Principal Engineer
Work Level: E3 or E4.
Job Title: CAE Engineer – Virtual Validation
Key Purpose of the Job:
Carrying out & coordinating of all CAE & analysis activities for designed & developing products
within the product portfolio to achieve exceptional results through – personal effectiveness,
partnering with others & building customer loyalty fulfilling their needs in an efficient & effective
manner.
Profile of the Job Holder:
• Masters or bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Automotive or Aerospace Engineering.
• 10 – 15 Years of relevant functional work experience. Demonstrable experience in virtual
validation and advanced product development.
• Highly motivated & self-initiator with good communication skills with the ability to work
effectively in a team environment & across culture.
• Ability to work within a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty in project situations. Take decisions with limited
information where necessary and demonstrate confidence to own decisions.
• Empower themselves by seeking authority to make decisions within appropriate guidelines.
• Work on demonstration projects to new customers & promoting the team technical
competency to the stakeholders and across team.
• Support the team as subject matter expert for the FEA relating to SKF product & application
point of view.
• Work on developing the new competency in line with the future requirements of the different
groups of SKF. To be responsible to keep and capitalize the developed knowledge.
• Empathy - Understand the requirements, and viewpoints of others. Excellent at managing
relationships, listening, and relating to others.
Key Skill & Knowledge Profile:
• Thorough knowledge of the basics of Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Experienced with Sub-
Modeling, Super-element techniques and reduced order modeling.
• Knowledge of Direct and sequential couple field Analysis.
• Can solve independently thermal field problems for steady-state and transient Analysis.
• In depth knowledge in advance topics of ANSYS-Classic /ANSYS-Workbench tools. Hands-on
experience in FE problems solving using the ABAQUS & Hyper-Works
• Work Proficiently in ANSYS Design-Modeler/Space-Claim/ Hyper-Mesh for geometric creation
& modification, Meshing, Morphing skills and advanced feature in respective tools.
• Knowledge of ******** analysis to simulate the high strain rates using commercial tools such as
ANSYS, ABAQUS, MSC-Nastran and Ls-Dyna.
• Understanding of multibody dynamics analysis and can model the physics from scratch and
develop equivalent models in tools like ADAMS and Motion-Solve.
• Having in-depth understanding of structural fatigue theory & fracture mechanics, capability to
execute LCF and HCF Analysis, LEFM, material modeling and design impacts.
• Conversant with FE-SAFE or any commercial Fatigue tool, model setup and results investigation.
• Strong skills in NVH and can execute dynamic response, transient and random vibration analysis. Noise propagation analysis skills are adding advantage.
• Knowledge of advance analysis techniques like failure analysis and Design of Experiments
(DOE) using commercial software’s like ANSYS, Hyper-Study, Mode-Frontier and I-sight.
• Understand and execute Topology and Topography simulation for product optimization.
• Can understand stain gauge test data and interpolate the results. Accordingly create and
develop the methods in FEA.
• Understand the concepts of joints, fastening (Bolt/Studs) and Welding. Able to demonstrate
the weld design and weld fatigue analysis for given physics.
• Experience on Elastic and Hyper elastic material-based analysis and material modeling for
analysis will be an advantage.
• Developing macros for repetitive types of tasks, APDL Snippets for ANSYS-WORKBENCH
• Automation of analysis workflows using Python, J-Script, or xml.
• Should have knowledge of web application development, Desktop applications and Excel
based tools (VBA). Skills in Power-BI is an added advantage.
• Should have skills for Data Analytics, responsible for collecting, managing, and converting raw
data into information that can be interpreted and visualize on respective tools
