Soykan Karaca

Achieved significant milestones in enhancing the quality of Traction Battery Electrical Hardware on both Volvo and Polestar projects.

• Having delegated responsibility for the project deliveries for the team: time, technique, and cost, and make sure that all systems are kept updated with the latest status.
• Component responsible for HV contactors, connectors, fuses, plastics, and casting metal parts.
• Lead a cross-functional team in Engineering Projects with regards to time, technique, and cost requirements of the task area within a vehicle program.
• Ensure cross functional collaboration with stakeholders to achieve project deliverables.
• Define technical requirements for RFI / FRQ and play a key role in supplier selection.
• Prepare Engineering Statement of Work (ESOW) documents to the Purchasing Department to start sourcing for the new materials and be aligned to order the parts based on the project plan.
• Manage suppliers to ensure components meet the requirements and ensure that DV & PV tests for the parts are executed according to the time plan.
• Follow up component test activities with VCC Test Engineers, and finalize verifications.
• Facilitated communication between stakeholders including management staff, clients, vendors, suppliers, to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Participate in DFMEA activities.

Medium Voltage circuit breaker is designed to interrupt electrical circuits operating at medium voltage levels.
Applications: Widely used in industries, utilities, and infrastructure for the protection and control of electrical power systems.

• Technical responsible for Medium Voltage SF6 and vacuum circuit breakers
• Developed technical solutions to meet customer requirements.
• Led weekly meetings with stakeholders to review project status updates and prioritize tasks accordingly.
• Provided technical support in root cause failure analysis for significant production issues and investigations.
• Represent product knowledge in an industrial plant.
• Management of changes on products.
• Making decisions and managing quality, performance improvements, and cost reduction on products.
• Define and evaluate the performance tests (type, mechanical endurance, dielectric, temperature rise tests, etc. in accordance with relevant IEC standard).

Provided Automotive Harness Product Engineering support for major automotive brands such as Volvo, Volkswagen, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), Daimler, and Ford.

• Creation and Distribution of the new change requests according to customer demands.
• Developed product design specifications and requirements.
• Investigated customer complaints to determine root cause of product failure.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams including sales, marketing, manufacturing, and quality assurance.
• Cost Management.
• Determine material requirements for planned work.
• Drive the project to meet time and eliminate any roadblocks in the process.
• Compile Bill of Materials - BOMs for purchasing, sales, and engineering.

Developed innovative designs for refrigerators as an R&D Engineer.

• Solving the design problems that come from production or quality assurance departments, and also from our customers.
• Design improvement.
• Developed and tested prototypes for new products in the research and development laboratory.
• Analyzed customer feedback to identify areas of improvement for existing products.
• Preparing plastic injection and EPS remolds' CAD data.
• Part design for refrigerator improvement.