Customer Ref: 35682

Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Division:
Body Engineering

Position Description:
Lead engineer with project management skills. Background in OEM, understand process of delivery of automotive components

Skills Required:
3 Key Skills:
1) Project management. Min 4 years experience in OEM or tier 1 valid Body engineering links
2) Catia user / experienced interrogator
3) Glazing wash wipe experience

Experience Required:
Mechanical Engineering / Product design degree.

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

Customer Ref: SSD010

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

Job Purpose
Manage the overall Passive Safety Attribute team and lead the delivery of Passive Safety Engineering across all vehicle programmes

Key Responsibilities and Tasks
• Manage Passive Safety Attribute Team. Ensuring Passive safety target delivery across programmes. Support direction and management of the staff in line with department objectives set by the Senior Manager.
• Work with Tech Expert to champion process development, continuous improvement and best practise within passive safety engineering
• Work with Tech Expert to develop company passive safety strategy and safety design guidelines
• Coordinate and develop passive safety targets and the vehicle safety council process within the client
• Approve programme safety target documents, ensuring consistency and a cross programme approach to upcoming legislative safety requirements
• Lead performance and development of Passive Safety Attribute team members
• Support technical engineering issues resolution in line with programme targets and constraints
• Responsibility for cross programme financial management
• Liaise with internal and external testing and CAE partners to form strategic relationships for cross programme safety delivery
• Oversee efforts to standardise safety attribute related Design Verification Plan management and timing

Qualifications and Experience
• Good Mechanical Engineering degree (or equivalent) minimum 2.1
• Excellent knowledge of Safety related regulations and test procedures
• Extensive experience gained within Passive Safety development
• Proven track record of achievement within Passive Safety development and delivery
• Experience of staff line management
• Programme management experience (planning, financial and status reporting responsibility)
• Experience of conducting and analysis of full scale crash tests
• Intuitive knowledge of fundamental Mechanical engineering theory
• Excellent IT skills and working knowledge of MS word/Excel etc
• Excellent problem-solving abilities
• Full UK Drivers Licence and flexibility to travel in UK and overseas
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence at all levels of organisation
• Experience of working with CAE tools to deliver safety performance.

Location: Gaydon

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

Customer Ref: 35414

Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:



Division:
Special Vehicle Operations



Position Description:

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The Armour Engineering team is responsible for producing products with class leading levels of protection to occupants against extreme attack, whilst retaining the luxury, refinement and off-road capability of the product.
- The team is responsible for specification, testing and sign off, chassis updates, armour cell development, trim development and option development.


- The key role of the Armour Project Leader is to support the Armour Engineering Manager in ensuring that SVO Armouring Programmes are delivered in line with program timing, cost, and quality and to manage engineering issues and to achieve a robust engineering sign off.



Key Performance Indicators
:
- Delivery of strategies inc partnerships

- Technical gateway delivery (IDJ, FDJ, PEC, FEC)

- PSW Phase 1 at TT

- Release status at FDJ that meets programme target

- AIMS status at technical gateways that meets programme




3 Key Skills:

1) Excellent communication skills: Ability to drive the team to deliver on-time, cost & Quality, ability to negotiate with other functions to achieve objectives and resolve issues is essential, then present technical challenges clearly.

2) Good knowledge & experience of delivering Engineering Programmes (PCDS)

3) High drive, self motivated and able to deliver with minimum supervision.



Experience Required:
- Good knowledge & experience of delivering Engineering Programmes (PCDS).
- Methodical detailed approach to work context.

- Customer first focused.

- Ability to negotiate with other functions to achieve objectives and resolve issues is essential.
- Ability to present complex data & issues to a varied audience.

- Negotiation and adaptability skills.

- The ability to manage complex technical issues is essential to balance the often conflicting needs of the business, within project timing constraints.
- Both verbal and written communication skills are important to report technical issues across all levels, and these should be combined with a confident attitude.
- Must have a record of proactive delivery and commitment to meeting deadlines.
- Be able to demonstrate high levels of leadership and people development skills.

- General knowledge of whole vehicle architecture and systems
- Understanding of all engineering deliverables required for client processes
- An individual, who works independently, is results driven, demonstrating tenacity, drive and perseverance with the ability to deliver operational plans in a complex, highly demanding environment.
- Resilient and enthusiastic and responds constructively to new ideas and inputs
- A good communicator with the ability to communicate complex ideas

- A effective team player, actively develops and supports team members
- Must be flexible with regard to multiple site working during launch.
- High drive, self-motivated, able to work under pressure
- Ability to lead and influence
- Ability to manage a team.
- Be commercially aware, with a strong `its my business' outlook.

- Have an innovative approach both in terms of product and manufacturing methods (low cost)



Experience Preferred:

- Proven engineering delivery discipline, ideally in a mechanical area.

- Experience within the Armour automotive industry.

- Knowledge of problem solving tools and techniques.
- Good understanding and knowledge of Quality systems.

- Proven experience of managing engineers.

- Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred

- An individual with the ability to challenge existing thinking in a positive way, whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style.


Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Lead the Engineering delivery on all SVO Armour projects on a specific Platform, liaising with the functional managers (Chassis, body, powertrain, electrical, interior), on programmes in the pre-<PS> phase through to job 1 + 90.

- Lead Engineering PDL responses, liaise/ negotiate with core on ownership, develop tech feas (with APC), drive design feas (DPAT), co-ordinate project resources.
- Support core project DPAT, VIT, PST, VLBR as required to ensure SVO interests are covered and issues resolved.

- Liaise with core CoC?s to ensure platform architecture and systems are specified, agreed and capable of delivering features for armoured products.
- Support SVO Engineering launch support and support NML as required.
- Drive/ Support Engineering team on delivery, timing, cost, AIMs, concerns, quality etc.
- Drive SVO innovation projects into delivery, on a specific platform.
- Drive SVO Engineering process improvement, and platform strategy.

- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested.



Locations: SVO Fen End and SVO Oxford Road (Coventry)

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

Customer Ref: 35352

Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Division:
Body Engineering

Position Description:
Component Engineer for Body Engineering, Exterior Systems

Skills Required:
- Successful history as a Project Engineer in the automotive sector, with plastic mouldings.
- Beneficial to include experience of the following finishes - painted, high end self coloured finishes, chrome plating, hot foil stampings, PvD
- CAD Literacy - ability to manipulate and interrogate CAD data and use associated visualisation tools.
- Proven Project management capability - demonstrated by recent delivery on time & budget of complex engineering systems

Experience Required:
- Exterior systems experience (large scale injection mouldings with A class and decorative finishes) - function, performance, production & manufacturing requirements
- Excellent communications skills. Demonstrated ability to communicate at all levels
- PC Literacy - Microsoft Project, Power Point, Excel, Word etc

Experience Preferred:
- Ability to generate CAD data in Catia v5 or v6 would be an advantage.
- UK driving licence.

Additional Information :
- Safety shoes needed for workshops and production facilities, OEM and at supplier
- Role will be mainly Warwickshire based but may involve residency at a manufacturing site during programme launch phases.

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

Customer Ref: 35360

Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Division:
Body Engineering

Position Description:
Climate Attribute team. Customer led HVAC system development ensuring system specifications and targets are correct for vehicle lines to ensure delivery of PALS targets and customer satisfaction

3 KEY SKILLS
- Thermal system design.
- Use of data collection and analysis tool, Ipetronik, INCA, ASL.
- Vehicle test experience in climatic chambers and real world.

Experience Required:
Degree qualified in mechanical or automotive engineering with experience of vehicle test and development

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