Our client who is a UK based engineering Tier 1 consultancy is looking for a Lead Automotive Durability Analyst to support an Automotive development project.

Position Description:
Experienced Lead Durability Engineer/Analyst with strong automotive engineering background is required to support a body development project working on metallic architecture development. Ideally with a degree in Automotive or Mechanical Engineering, you'll have a solid understanding of engineering principles and automotive Durability load cases (static/dynamic and fatigue). The ability to set targets for automotive durability delivery is vital, with the ability to utilise standard industry FE software, Nastran/Optistruct/Abaqus/NCode etc. Candidates should have broad experience with the design and development of automotive architecture including concept generation and case study CAE analysis. Experience of working with lightweight body structures including castings, pressings and extrusions would be of benefit.

The engineer will have the following skills:
- Lead Engineer experience including target setting for Body Durability.
- Automotive engineering background and 5+ years experience running CAE durability analysis;
- Excellent modelling and analysis experience using industry standard software;
- OEM or engineering consulting background;
- Experience of leading a team of CAE Engineers;
- Understanding and appreciation of a variety of manufacturing processes – castings, forgings, extrusions etc.;

Skills Required:
- Self-motivated with the ability to take ownership and deliver on CAE targets;
- Committed, flexible and able to work under pressure as part of a team;
- Excellent communication skills for vehicle cross-functional discussions and CAE delivery.

Education Required:
- Degree Educated demonstrating automotive CAE experience/training.

Additional Information:
Some overseas travel will be required with the role.

Location:
Multiple locations available: Warwickshire / Norfolk / Essex.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Customer Ref: SSD150

Our client who is an iconic luxury sports car manufacturer, is currently recruiting for the following role:

Job Purpose:
• Supporting the body engineering Programme Module Sub Teams and Programme Attribute Teams in the generation of detailed component and system level engineering targets – through experience/lessons learnt, interrogation of previous programme targets, and benchmarking of competitor products.
• Creating & updating Design Verification Plans (DVPs) across Body Engineering Systems and vehicle programs.
• Supporting body engineering Programme Module Sub Teams with body commodity related development and testing.
• To execute body engineering development & testing particularly for durability, strength and craftsmanship.
• To provide proactive, creative and practical problem solving to advance the development of body engineering designs.
• Supporting early failure mode detection through the creation and testing of development bucks, sub-assemblies and prototype parts.
• To Create, critique, and execute test plans to ensure design verification and reporting is performed in the most effective and efficient manner.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks
• Participate in the engineering design from targets through development to sign-off & production
• Support Design reviews from target settings through to development of production parts
• Organise both in-house & out-source testing (liaise with suppliers, organise & follow-up component procurement, organise test planning & manage test method specification)
• Support/Execute component, sub-system, system & whole vehicle tests
• Communicate/Present test results & support technical reviews
• Write/Archive test reports & deviations
• Raise concerns where necessary
• Develop corrective solutions
• Attend Programme Module Sub Team meetings & advise on upcoming changes
• Generate new concept ideas
• Source or fabricate pre-prototype/development parts
• Participate in benchmarking activities to support design & target setting
• Design & build test rigs
• Update current test methods, write new test methods

Qualifications and Experience
• Engineering Degree (or equivalent qualification) – Automotive or Mechanical Engineering preferred
• Experience of hands on testing (body systems, sub-systems & components)
• Experience of using NX, Team Centre and Vis Mock-up would be beneficial
• Experience gained within Automotive industry (experience within other engineering sectors will also be considered)
• Experience in Engineering problem resolving (for example body components, structures & systems)
• Pragmatic hands-on problem solving
• Data recording, analysis & report writing
• Technical & practical workshop skills (build of rigs, use of CAD drawings, GD&T)
• Excellent communication skills: Able to communicate ideas clearly & concisely
• Good physical condition required
• Capability of working under pressure
• Good spatial awareness & conceptual abilities
• Ability to manage multiple demands on time & priorities
• Excellent analytical & systematic approach to problem solving
• Ability to take decisions that minimise engineering risk in a solution
• The successful candidate must be able to learn quickly and integrate into a successful and dynamic team, offering strong character attributes as well as the necessary knowledge and experience above.
• The best candidate will be open-minded and lateral thinking in the face of stiff timing and product targets.
• The successful candidate should be able to exhibit creative problem solving ability and commitment to meet stretch targets. The candidate must be proactive and trust their initiative with minimum supervision to produce practical solutions.
• Clear understanding of deadlines and timing plans based on new vehicle project timing. Particularly Programme Start, Programme Strategy Confirmation, Programme Targets Confirmation, Final Data Judgement and Final Engineering Complete gateways.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Customer Ref: ETL014

Our client who is an iconic luxury sports car manufacturer, is currently recruiting for the following role:

Job Purpose
Ownership of body electronics components including body controllers, door modules, keyless go and anti-theft alarm systems. TPMS (Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems) experience would be an advantage but is not essential. To achieve performance, quality, cost and timing targets over the whole product lifecycle from concept through to volume production. To understand technology trends and to propose innovative solutions for future vehicle platforms.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks
• Manage 5 year commodity strategy & get relevant new technologies to implementation ready within agreed Function budget, resource & timing.
• Create engineering guideline documents and archetypes for platform and non-platform engineered components.
• Work with application engineer & Product Cost Estimating to set platform commodity programme financial targets based on improved archetypes & strategic suppliers.
• Define to application engineer resource requirements (internal & external) for platform commodities.
• Ensure platform commodities achieve the programme’s cascaded system level targets, supporting Concept reviews as required.
• Deliver the programme QCWFT (quality, cost, weight, function and timing) requirements to the application engineer. TDC
• Ensure that the commodity meets the Function plan (with the component suppliers), creating & managing recovery plans as required. Includes releasing platform components (BoM, tooling launch).
• Monitor internal & external resource utilisation to identify potential efficiency improvements for the next programme.
• Create & manage the platform commodity’s virtual & physical design verification plan.
• Ensures effective report writing to identify potential efficiency improvements for the next programme.
• Ensure that all platform concerns are robustly resolved & provide technical support for application concerns
• Complete Final Engineer Sign Off documentation for platform commodities.

Qualifications and Experience
• Engineering Degree or equivalent
• Preferably Chartered Engineering status or equivalent
• Proven record of delivering Body Electronics commodities, including quality, cost, function, weight and timing.
• Experience gained within Body Electronics or similar commodities.
• Extensive knowledge of automotive development systems e.g. releasing, concerns, containments, gateways and sign off documentation.
• Experience of leading a cross functional team, including complex issue resolution.
• Supplier management experience.
• Complete knowledge of Product Development cycle from concept to launch completion.
• Excellent technical engineering background and a comprehensive knowledge of using calculation and analysis to drive design.
• Excellent knowledge of automotive quality tools and processes.
• Extensive knowledge of the manufacturing processes to create the components or systems.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels

Location: Warwickshire

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Agency.

Customer Ref: ETL083

Our client who is an iconic luxury sports car manufacturer, is currently recruiting for the following role:

Job Purpose:
The purpose of this role is to deliver Electrical & Electronics application commodities and represent platform commodities in the programme team.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks
• Business Planning:
• Define the Electrical & Electronics Function’s change content in response to the Strategic Evaluation Letter. Work with Product Cost Estimating to set commodity Financial targets based on defined archetypes & strategic suppliers.
• Support Programme Manager and Concept Leader to balance performance and cost targets.
• Define programme’s Electrical & Electronics engineering resource requirements (internal and external).

• Engineering:
• Work with Concept Leader to ensure that platform commodities and functional archetypes are applied, and that Function commodities integrate effectively with other commodities to achieve overall vehicle targets.
• Use external engineering partners as required to deliver non-platform commodities in line with the functional archetypes and engineering guidelines, using Electrical & Electronics Performance Engineers to ensure system level targets are achieved.
• Ensure platform commodities are delivered (by platform engineers) to achieve the programme’s cascaded system level targets.

• Delivery:
• Co-located with Programme Manager, collaborates with cross-functional programme team including application engineers from other Functions, Vehicle Performance & Concept, Purchasing, Manufacturing & Quality to deliver the programme QCWFT (quality, cost, weight, function and timing) requirements.
• Plan Electrical & Electronics Function programme delivery to achieve the VPP.
• Ensure that platform engineers & external engineering partners achieve the plan (with their component suppliers), creating & managing recovery plans as required. Includes releasing application components & driving ETRS for platform components.
• Monitor internal & external resource utilisation to identify potential efficiency improvements for the next programme.

• Validation:
• Creates & manage the Function’s virtual & physical DV plan.
• Ensures effective report writing to identify potential efficiency improvements for the next programme.
• Ensure that all concerns are robustly resolved. First port of call for build issues. Includes resolving concerns on application components & driving concern resolution for platform components.
• Complete FESO documentation for application commodities, drive completion for platform commodities.
• Guarantees the functional & technical delivery of the system to the project.

Qualifications & Experience
• Engineering Degree or equivalent
• Proven record of delivering Electrical or Electronics commodities, including quality, cost, function, weight and timing.
• Extensive knowledge of automotive development systems e.g. releasing, concerns, containments, gateways and sign off documentation.
• Experience of leading a cross functional team, including complex issue resolution.
• Proven management of outsourced projects
• Supplier management experience
• Complete knowledge of Product Development cycle from concept to launch completion
• Excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels
• Confident presenter
• Analytical
• Excellent financial management skills
• Must be able to manage large workloads in a high pressure environment and prioritise accordingly.
• Must be able to project manage and work collaboratively with a cross-functional team.
• Ability to lead and inspire a team
• Able to communicate confidently and clearly
• Able to set and deliver targets
• Strategic thinking and decision making skills
• Resilient and driven to succeed; goal orientated
• Strong technical focus, high quality mindset.
• Clean driving license
• Travel may be required, UK & overseas.

Desirable:
• Preferably Chartered Engineering status or equivalent
• Experience of more than one of the following commodities is preferred: infotainment, audio, cluster & displays, tracker & e-call, antennas, switchgear, lighting, camera & PDCs, body electronics, power management, EDS
• Excellent technical engineering background and a comprehensive knowledge of using calculation and analysis to drive design.
• Excellent knowledge of automotive quality tools and processes.
• Extensive knowledge of the manufacturing processes to create the components or systems.
• Microsoft project experience is desirable

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Agency.

Our client who is Midlands based engineering Tier 1 consultancy is looking for (x2) Automotive CAE NVH Analysts to support new Automotive development projects.

Position Description:
Experienced NVH CAE Analysts with automotive engineering background are required to support a number of new body projects working on light weight architecture development. Ideally with a degree in Automotive or Mechanical Engineering, you'll have a solid understanding of engineering principles and automotive NVH load cases (modal/point mobilityVTF/NTF). An excellent working knowledge of either Nastran OR Optistruct is vital, with the ability to use HyperWorks for pre/post processing a distinct advantage. Candidates should have broad experience with the design and development of automotive architecture including concept generation and case study CAE analysis. The ability to run optimisation analysis in support of NVH development would also be a distinct advantage. Experience of working with lightweight body structures including aluminium castings, pressings and extrusions would be of benefit.

The engineer will have the following:
- Automotive engineering background and 3-5 years experience running NVH analysis;
- Excellent Nastran OR Optistruct skills for both modelling and analysis;
- HyperWorks experience for pre/post processing;
- Ideally Optimisation experience in the support of NVH analysis;
- OEM or engineering consulting background;
- Experience of working within a team of CAE Engineers;
- Understanding and appreciation of a variety of manufacturing processes – aluminium castings, forgings, extrusions etc.;

Skills Required:
- Self-motivated with the ability to take ownership and deliver on CAE targets;
- Committed, flexible and able to work under pressure as part of a team;
- Excellent communication skills for vehicle cross-functional discussions and CAE delivery.

Education Required:
- Degree Educated demonstrating automotive CAE experience/training.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.