A Project planning 1 Clarifying design requirements with the customer in the form of specified project descriptions, analyzing design expenditure in agreement with the responsible superior 2 Agreeing and following up targets for device design with the project manager in terms of quality, costs and timing taking existing processes and methods into consideration in agreement with the superior 3 Planning, coordinating and controlling design tasks by applying prescribed methods and systems (incl. Time to Market process) 4 Involving internal and external services if necessary, taking economic, qualitative and scheduling points of view into consideration in agreement with the superior 5 Involvement in defined escalation scenarios whenever deviations from targets occur in device design 6 Ensuring that defined technical standards are being observed within the context of design; involving Preliminary Development and Production Technology in the agreement of product concepts and technological alternatives B Drafting design solutions 1 Preparation of a performance specification based on the existing requirement specification 2 Working out design drafts based on CAD data provided by the customer regarding device design, taking technical and economic aspects into account 3 Drawing up design solutions taking functional, material-related, technical production and economical aspects into account; drawing up selected designs for detailing 4 Change designs over the whole design process (quotation, concept and detailing phase) with the departments involved such as Process Planning, Quality Planning, Design and Laboratory 5 Implementing and arranging for detailing work to be carried out as well as selection of the materials and standards to be used, definition of tolerances and implementation of the drawing check 6 Preparing the (design) FMEA for the complete device, taking customer requirements into account 7 Arranging for tests (mechanical, photometric, thermal) on sample devices, integration of results in the design