Benjamin Lheriau

Leader of the testing coordination team (9 employees) for our French Asian and Italian customers Creating testing offers (test plan/needs/budgets) according requirements and product diversity Managing the team organisation Regular travel worlwide meeting with the customer Multiple projects tasking: 200 tests per month / 20 active projects / 6 customers Defining and following the team goals and performance Hiring, developing, motivating the team members

Test coordination team member for the French and Asian customers Advanced skills on the seat design its components, and mechanisms, on the customer specifications and the Regulations (ECE, FMVSS) Supporting the team daily as expert and developping new team members Managing key projects (several merit awards recognitions) Mission in South Korea to teach the Samsung testing team on the Renault procedures Supporting the new testing centres in China Shanghai and Chongqing to the PSA test procedures

Member of the testing coordination team as confirmed validation engineer for the Ford customer Responsible of one Ford project with high level of complexity and leading a small team of 2 employees

Member of the testing coordination team for the Renault, Samsung and PSA customers Creating and updating validation plans, budget controlling, test scheduling, coordinating samples , set-up execution, post test analysis and reporting Involved on multiple projects from design development until post launch yearly audit of the plant Regular review and daily reporting to the internal and external customers all worldwide located

Seating / Engineering department / CAE simulation engineer on the seat frames and mechanisms Safety specification: Redaction, updates and communication with the suppliers Internal CAE studies: Safety orientation on innovating solutions CAE continuous methodology improvements CAE and testing validation plan management with the suppliers and in internal

Airbag / engineering department / FEA simulation engineer on pyrotechnical safety elements Airbag Sub-system TEST vs CAE model correlations CAE simulation on complete model (Body in white, seat, airbag and dummy) Dummy injuries criteria analysis

Cockpit – Airbag / Engineering department / Defining a new airbag inflating FEA methodology Sub-system simulations to evaluate the new method and compare to the one currently used for designing the cockpit FEA simulation with inflating passenger airbag in cockpit environments

Engine / Engineering department / Designing a new innovative part Design of two parts used to connect the turbochargers on a V6 engine Implication on all the steps of the design Study concluded by a patent application

Engine / Prototyping – Quality department / Setting up a new quality standard Quality certification redaction Quality approach insuring the traceability and the quality of each prototype component and assembly process

Machine tools / workshop / Assembling new test benchs Assembly of an automatic gears test bench

Strength on Mechanical sciences, design and numerical engineering skills