Hendrik B.
Senior Mechanical Engineer Medical Devices
Experience
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
1 year 1 monthSenior Mechanical Engineer Medical Devices
Roche Diagnostics AG
- Designing and optimizing medical devices
- Designing housing segments, coupling systems, complex mechanical systems, plastic and sheet metal structures
- Requesting quotes from suppliers and technical evaluation
- Technical support for suppliers and production
- CAD design with CATIA V5 and SolidWorks
- Creating models, ISO GPS drawings, documentation, and approvals in PLM/SAP
- Internal coordination with relevant stakeholders
Apr 2022 - Sep 2023
1 year 6 monthsMechanical Design Engineer Steering
Thyssenkrupp Presta AG
- Designing drive modules for steering systems
- Designing plastic connector housings, aluminum die-cast parts, and PCBs for OEM-specific drive units
- Close coordination with suppliers on servo motor design
- CAD design with CATIA V5 and Agile 6
- Creating models, ISO GPS drawings, documentation, and approvals in PLM
- Internal coordination with team leads and project management
Apr 2021 - Mar 2022
1 yearManufacturing Engineer
RUAG Aerostructures AG
- Supporting work preparation measures
- Adapting automated drilling and riveting processes for wing and fin production
- Creating drilling and riveting plans and production schedules
- Specifying NAS-compliant drilling materials
- Supplier evaluation
- Creating drawings and 3D models in CATIA V5
- Document management in SAP
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
11 monthsMechanical Design Engineer
Leica Geosystems AG
- Developing optomechanical surveying systems
- Designing plastic housings and aluminum die-cast parts
- Working closely with toolmaking for injection molding part design (DFM)
- Cable and PCB design
- CAD design with Siemens NX and Teamcenter
- Documentation in SAP
- Regular meetings with team leads and project management
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
1 year 8 monthsSenior Design Engineer Launchers
RUAG Space AG
- Structural design of payload fairings (Ariane, Atlas V, NASA SLS)
- Building 3D models in CATIA V5
- Creating technical drawings, BOMs, material and document records in SAP
- Collaborating with project management and quality management
May 2018 - Dec 2018
8 monthsDesign Engineer Filling Plants
Bizerba Busch AG
- Designing semi- and fully automatic filling plants for food, chemical, and petrochemical industries
- Compliance with Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC
- Close cooperation with project management and production
- Optimizing automation processes
- Creating technical drawings and BOMs
- Technical specifications with suppliers
- Writing requirement specifications for food production
- Creating material and document records in SAP
- Making drawings and 3D models in SolidWorks
- Change management
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
1 year 2 monthsDesign Engineer Rail Vehicles
Stadler Rail AG
- Designing interior fittings for FLIRT 3 trains
- Designing ceiling systems, gangways, and insulations
- Designing thermoplastic components for train locking systems
- Ensuring fire protection compliance
- Working with project management and on-site installation
- Technical specifications with suppliers
- Creating requirement specifications and requirement sheets
- Supporting certification and approval processes
- Change management
- Managing documents and part data in SmarTeam
- Creating drawings and 3D models in CATIA V5
Jun 2015 - Apr 2017
1 year 11 monthsDesign Engineer Radar Sensor Unit
Rheinmetall Defence AG
- Working on new developments in modernizing mobile radar systems
- Developing radar sensor units and optics for object detection
- Designing electromechanical alternatives to hydraulic drives in military vehicles, installing and controlling linear actuators
- Compliance with Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC
- Writing requirement specifications
- Supplier evaluation
- Design collaboration with system suppliers based on specs
- 3D design in Siemens NX10
- Creating production drawings and BOMs
- Data management and change control in Teamcenter
- Maintaining part data in SAP
Aug 2013 - Mar 2015
1 year 8 monthsSwitzerland
Design Engineer Turbogenerator
Alstom Schweiz AG
- Contributing to the "new rotor technology" development project
- Structural optimizations to improve power plant generator efficiency
- Redesigning axial and radial fans
- Creating production drawings and BOMs
- Drawing revisions
- Applying design methods in CATIA V5 for CAM processes to optimize rotor manufacturing
Feb 2011 - Jul 2013
2 years 6 monthsHybrid
Senior Design Engineer Automotive
Schaffner EMV AG
- Designing thermoplastic components like door-handle antennas, switches, and EMI filters for hybrid and conventional vehicles
- PCB design
- Basic design of EMI test fixtures for quality assurance in automated production
- Applying quality management systems
- IATF 16949 (APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Kaizen)
- Supporting production processes in Thailand and China
- Key user for CAD CATIA V5 and SAP
- Change management
- Deputy head of design
Nov 2007 - Jan 2011
3 years 3 monthsBody-in-White Designer Automotive
FFT EDAG / EDAG Engineering AG
- Designing jigs and fixtures for body-in-white production
- Methodical design in CATIA V5 and Siemens NX according to OEM guidelines (Ford, VW, BMW, Daimler, GM)
- Creating production drawings and BOMs
- Processing change requests
- Preparing CAD models for collision analysis in robot cells
Aug 2004 - Sep 2006
2 years 2 monthsCologne, Germany
Production Equipment Designer Automotive
Ford Werke in Köln
- Designing fixtures and tools for plant engineering
- Creating 3D models
- Supporting simulation for robot tool design
- Creating drawings and BOMs in CATIA V5
Summary
Innovative design engineer with over 15 years of experience in product development. Expert in mechanical designs for medical devices, automotive, railway, and aerospace.
- Extensive experience with CATIA V5, Siemens NX, and SolidWorks
Core Skills:
- Mechanical design
- Product development
- Plastics engineering
- Drive technology
- Fixture design
- Production equipment
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 2002 - Jun 2005
Aachen University of Applied Sciences
Mechanical Engineering · Germany
Oct 2001 - Jun 2002
Aachen Technical Secondary School
University Entrance Qualification · Aachen, Germany
Oct 1990 - Jun 1997
Erkelenz High School
Secondary School Certificate · Erkelenz, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Certified Designer IHK
Chamber of Industry and Commerce
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