Our Automotive client, who is currently engaged in several exciting and innovative automotive projects, now has an excellent opportunity for a talented and experienced engineer based at their vehicle design, development and engineering centre in the Surrey area.

Responsibilities:
You will undertake a variety of simulation, test and correlation tasks applying first principles, 1D, numerical and CFD approaches. Working as an integral member of vehicle design teams you will provide simulation led guidance on design direction from an airflow management perspective.

Qualifications and experience:
- Educated to Masters or post-graduate level (Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautics, Physics)
- Typically 3-5 years’ experience in an aerodynamic role
- Direct experience in vehicle design and/or motorsport
- An understanding of the importance of aerodynamic parameters on overall vehicle dynamics
- A sound understanding of aerodynamic design from first principles
- Proven experience of undertaking CFD model build, processing and results interpretation
- Ability to concisely communicate importance of aerodynamic features to design teams
- Experience in automotive vehicle external aerodynamics performance is essential.
- Experience of internal flow management (HVAC) and thermal systems management is highly beneficial
- Practical experience of wind tunnel testing and correlation to CFD highly advantageous
- CATIA CAD surfacing experience beneficial but not essential.

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

Our Automotive Tier 1 client, who is currently engaged in several exciting and innovative automotive projects, now has an excellent opportunity for a talented and experienced Chief Engineer in the Structures Group based at their Midlands engineering centre in Coventry.

Key Purpose of the role:
To lead the Structures Group team to deliver efficient structural engineering solutions for internal and external customers.

Key Responsibilities of the role:
The primary role of the Chief Engineer shall be to lead the structures group to deliver structural engineering programs.

Technical
▪ Lead and guide the team in the all structural engineering tasks to support customer deliverables including:
o CAD development; 2D & 3D CAD designs of structural components are delivered to client (and customer) quality guidelines.
o CAE development; models are delivered to client (and customer) quality guidelines and are to appropriate state-of-the-art levels of predictive fidelity.
o Ensure through robust process and methods that the full design administration activity is complete and accurate; BOM (Bill of Materials), DVP (Design Verification Plan), Family Tree, Release documentation.
o Lead and guide idea generation and problem resolution sessions through day-to-day working and structured Design Reviews.
o Ensure an ‘Engineering first’ approach throughout the department focusing on understanding load paths, layout and optimisation of structures to ensure the lightest and most cost effective high performance solutions.
▪ Work closely with manufacturing partners both internal and external to ensure a clear understanding of manufacturing capability and limitations.
▪ Develop departmental technical strategies to ensure Client’s position of engineering excellence.
▪ Ensure design and project documentation are maintained to satisfy the client's quality management system and customer-specific requirements.
▪ Generally works under own initiative. Plans work and cascades to first line and drives strategy across the group.

Leadership
▪ Can lead large teams. Have pastoral/personnel development responsibilities
▪ Lead formal and on the job training for the team
▪ Develop personnel and lead departmental recruitment strategies to ensure appropriate staffing and skill levels.
▪ Support first line managers in their personnel leadership and planning.

Project Leadership
▪ Can manage multiple large tasks (>16 weeks or >£100k).
▪ Can multi-task and support first line managers in their project leadership and planning.

Business Integration
▪ Leads departmental inter dependencies & best practice methodologies. Integrates departmental planning with other business units. Highly developed in intellectual versatility, recognising, exploring and using a broad range of ideas and practices. Thinking logically and creatively without undue influence from personal bias.

Professional Behaviours
▪ Demonstrates good emotional intelligence, ethics and professionalism. Coaches staff members. Exceptional listening skills and self-awareness. Highly passionate about the work that they do and the organisation as a whole. Excels in organisational skills and time management. Strong ability to prioritise workload and multi-task.

Customer Interaction
▪ Strategic Management. Highly commercially aware and entrepreneurial. Measures their department’s performance. Lives and breathes the core company values and develops others to do the same.
▪ Leverage commercial opportunities with existing and new customers.
▪ Represent the department with both internal and external customers

Measurements:
▪ Achieving departmental KPI’s including:
o Commercial hours ratios
o Right-first-time technical gateway achievement
o Balanced staff talent pools via skills matrix
▪ Measured development of toolset and process to develop efficiencies in line with company growth
▪ Meeting customer-specific design requirements guidelines.
▪ Team satisfaction indices/survey.

Skill, Experience and Qualifications:
Essential:
▪ Engineering or Maths / Physics degree or equivalent
▪ Excellent problem solving abilities & 3D spatial awareness.
▪ Commercially aware.
▪ Has a flexible approach to working.
▪ Professional attitude.
▪ Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplined team.
▪ Experienced leader of personnel and projects.
▪ CAD and/or CAE literacy.
▪ Expert knowledge of design process and tools (dFMEA, FMA, APQP).

Desirable:
▪ Technical leadership in design or simulation field
▪ Experiences of hands on engineering within sheet metal or composites.
▪ Knowledge of composites design and manufacture

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

Our global motorcycle manufacturing client is urgently looking to fill the following role:

Role context and purpose:
Our client is looking for talented Engineers to join their Chassis team based in our client's state of the art Technology Centre. The role forms part of the our client's wider Chassis team, taking the lead on specific projects and components, helping to shape the future product portfolio. A key part of the role is to take the lead in forwarding our client’s specialist technical knowledge base and working practices, managing projects, technical development and technical sign-off for a
small group of engineers along with assisting the Team Leader in effectively managing the team.

Key responsibilities:
● Design systems and components for new and updated chassis projects, considering function, cost, manufacture, assembly and quality.
● Produce good quality 3D CAD models using Pro-Engineer.
● Produce good quality 2D engineering drawings.
● Follow and help maintain design, operational and quality procedures.
● Produce supporting documentation for designs, as required.
● Liaise with internal departments such as, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Quality and Assembly.
● Liaise with outside suppliers.
● Manage their own time and workload effectively.
● Represent the design team or PD department in interdepartmental meetings in the absence of the team leader.
● Will be technically responsible for the design and development of a major chassis subassembly or system.
● May plan and oversee the delivery of many major chassis subassemblies or systems.
● May become a specialist in a particular area and work to enhance and distribute knowledge throughout the department.
● Manage the workload of a small group of engineers.
● May manage the delivery of a derivative motorcycle
● Responsible for drafting and updating RE design best practice and test procedures.
● Should be able to demonstrate good time management and excellent knowledge of engineering fundamentals.
● Should be able demonstrate technical leadership and coaching skills.
● Be able to manage the technical requirements of multiple chassis systems simultaneously.

Experience Required:
● Educational qualifications
- Qualified to degree level or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline. Minimum of 2:1 required.
- Proficient in 3D CAD, preferably Pro-engineer.

● Experience
- Extensive experience in engineering design of components and subassemblies, ideally within the motorcycle industry.
- Excellent understanding of design requirements for mass production manufacturing.
- Extensive experience of creating, checking and releasing 2D technical drawings.
- Excellent understanding of geometric tolerancing and its application.
- Excellent understanding of motorcycle chassis layout and construction.
- Experience in analysis and optimisation of components and subassemblies.
- Excellent technical comprehension of motorcycle chassis layout, design & development.
- Planning and delivery of small projects including budgeting and resource management.
- Should be comfortable with managing and coaching others.
- Practical experience of vehicle maintenance and preparation is advantageous.
- Extensive experience in designing to Regulatory requirements as applied to motorcycles.

This position is being offered as a long term contract OR permanent role.

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

Our global motorcycle manufacturing client is urgently looking to fill the following role:

Role context and purpose:
Our client is looking for talented Engineers to join their Chassis team based in our client's state of the art Technology Centre. The role forms part of the our client's wider Chassis team, taking the lead on specific projects and components, helping to shape the future product portfolio. We are looking for people with experience of defining major components, assemblies and systems from concept to production, ensuring fulfillment of product attributes and requirements against
targets. Candidates should be able to apply and propagate design and development experience throughout the projects and manage the workload and technical development of a small group of engineers, assisting the Team Leader in effectively managing the team.

Key responsibilities:
● Manage key aspects of new model development such as ABS.
● Ownership and coordination of major vehicle development and testing activities.
● Manage a small team (1-3 people) of Design Engineers.
● Plan and oversee the delivery of many major chassis subassemblies or systems within the requirements of the company’s New Product Introduction (NPI) system.
● Design systems and components for new and updated chassis projects, considering function, cost, manufacture, assembly and quality.
● Produce good quality 3D CAD models using Pro-Engineer.
● Produce good quality 2D engineering drawings.
● Follow and help maintain design, operational and quality procedures.
● Produce supporting documentation for designs, as required.
● Liaise with internal departments such as, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Quality and Assembly.
● Liaise with external international suppliers.
● Manage time and workload effectively.
● Represent the design team or PD department in interdepartmental meetings in the absence of the team leader.
● May manage the delivery of a derivative motorcycle.
● Assist in drafting & updating RE design and development procedures.
● Should be able to demonstrate good time management and excellent knowledge of engineering fundamentals.
● Should be able demonstrate technical leadership and coaching skills.
● Be able to manage the technical requirements of multiple chassis systems simultaneously.

Experience Required:
● Educational qualifications
- Qualified to degree level or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline. Minimum of 2:1 required.
- Proficient in 3D CAD, preferably Pro-engineer.

● Experience
- Extensive experience in engineering design of components and subassemblies, ideally within the motorcycle industry.
- Excellent understanding of design requirements for mass production manufacturing
- Extensive experience of whole product lifecycle, from concept through to production.
- Significant experience of creating and releasing 2D technical drawings.
- Understanding of application of geometric tolerances on 2D drawings.
- Good understanding of motorcycle chassis layout and construction.
- Planning and delivery of small projects including budgeting and resource management.
- Previous experience of managing small teams (1-2 people) and their workloads.
- Experience in designing to Regulatory requirements as applied to motorcycles.
- Practical experience of vehicle maintenance and preparation is advantageous.

This position is being offered as a long term contract OR permanent role.

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

Our global motorcycle manufacturing client is urgently looking to fill the following role:

Role context and purpose:
Our client is looking for talented Engineers to join their Chassis team based in our client's state of the art Technology Centre. The role forms part of the our client's wider Chassis team, taking the lead on specific projects and components, helping to shape the future product portfolio. A key part of the role is to take the lead in forwarding our client’s specialist technical knowledge base and working practices, managing projects, technical development and technical sign-off for a
small group of engineers along with assisting the Team Leader in effectively managing the team.

Key responsibilities:
● Design systems and components for new and updated chassis projects, considering function, cost, manufacture, assembly and quality.
● Produce good quality 3D CAD models using Pro-Engineer.
● Produce good quality 2D engineering drawings.
● Follow and help maintain design, operational and quality procedures.
● Produce supporting documentation for designs, as required.
● Liaise with internal departments such as, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Quality and Assembly.
● Liaise with outside suppliers.
● Manage their own time and workload effectively.
● Represent the design team or PD department in interdepartmental meetings in the absence of the team leader.
● Will be technically responsible for the design and development of a major chassis subassembly or system.
● May plan and oversee the delivery of many major chassis subassemblies or systems.
● May become a specialist in a particular area and work to enhance and distribute knowledge throughout the department.
● Manage the workload of a small group of engineers.
● May manage the delivery of a derivative motorcycle
● Responsible for drafting and updating RE design best practice and test procedures.
● Should be able to demonstrate good time management and excellent knowledge of engineering fundamentals.
● Should be able demonstrate technical leadership and coaching skills.
● Be able to manage the technical requirements of multiple chassis systems simultaneously.

Experience Required:
● Educational qualifications
- Qualified to degree level or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline. Minimum of 2:1 required.
- Proficient in 3D CAD, preferably Pro-engineer.

● Experience
- Extensive experience in engineering design of components and subassemblies, ideally within the motorcycle industry.
- Excellent understanding of design requirements for mass production manufacturing.
- Extensive experience of creating, checking and releasing 2D technical drawings.
- Excellent understanding of geometric tolerancing and its application.
- Excellent understanding of motorcycle chassis layout and construction.
- Experience in analysis and optimisation of components and subassemblies.
- Excellent technical comprehension of motorcycle chassis layout, design & development.
- Planning and delivery of small projects including budgeting and resource management.
- Should be comfortable with managing and coaching others.
- Practical experience of vehicle maintenance and preparation is advantageous.
- Extensive experience in designing to Regulatory requirements as applied to motorcycles.

This position is being offered as a long term contract OR permanent role.

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