Experience: 6 to 15 years

Job Location: Bangalore

Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days only

Job Overview The Packaging Zone Designer defines the optimal placement, integration, and spatial organization of mechanical, electrical, and structural components within an assigned vehicle zone, such as the engine bay, cockpit, trunk, or doors. The role ensures that packaged components meet functional and regulatory requirements while remaining compatible with manufacturing, assembly, serviceability, safety, and styling constraints.

Key Responsibilities

A. Technical Responsibilities

- Define the packaging layout for mechanical and electrical components within the assigned vehicle zone.
- Ensure correct component positioning, clearances, accessibility, and installation robustness.
- Check interfaces with surrounding systems to prevent mechanical, thermal, electrical, styling, HVAC, and chassis conflicts.
- Conduct clearance studies, kinematic analyses, and envelope compliance checks, including CCP requirements.
- Identify clashes, incompatibilities, and packaging risks at an early stage.
- Manage and review the Digital Mock-Up (DMU) of the assigned zone in the PLM/CAD environment.
- Perform first-level arbitration between technical solution options.
- Drive the resolution of packaging conflicts through Hot Housing and technical workshops.
- Request and support physical mock-ups for high-risk zones and scenarios.

B. Operational Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate the system architects responsible for the assigned zone.




- Provide daily and weekly convergence status for the zone.
- Define priorities for upcoming weeks with system engineers and coordinate with other packaging zones and the packaging leader.
- Coordinate system engineers during daily Hot Housing activities.
- Ensure alignment with manufacturing, assembly, and service/after-sales teams to support maintainability and feasibility.
- Support packaging reviews, design robustness reviews, and upstream concept studies.

C. Documentation and Deliverables
- Produce packaging reports, clearance studies, and feasibility assessments.
- Maintain packaging KPIs covering zone fill rate, clearances, and component envelopes.
- Contribute to technical documentation required for project milestones, including concept freeze, design freeze, and engineering release.

Required Technical Skills

- Robust understanding of vehicle systems and their interactions.
- Knowledge of mechanical design, electrical routing, thermal zones, and vehicle safety requirements.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes, including sheet metal, plastics, casting, and wiring harness integration.
- Ability to perform packaging, clearance, accessibility, kinematic, and interface studies.
- Experience with Digital Mock-Up, CAD assemblies, and PLM-based product structures.
- Ability to assess manufacturability, assembly feasibility, maintainability, and service access.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical arbitration skills.
- CAD tool: Catia

📌 Vehicle Packaging Engineer (Karnataka)
🏢 Akkodis
📍 Karnataka