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.

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 Agency.

Customer Ref: CHS059

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

Job Purpose
Chassis management lead within the programme team. Manage the functional and technical delivery of all of the Chassis systems to the vehicle platforms. Manage the generation and maintenance of Chassis costs, timing plans, reporting documents and presentation material.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:
 Chassis management lead within Programme. Responsible for applying and introducing all Chassis systems to a given programme.
 Collaborate with other application managers & engineers, systems integration engineers & commodity engineers to achieve whole vehicle quality & cost targets.
 Work with commodity engineers across Research and Development to ensure a robust system delivery plan is created & achieved.
 Work with vehicle engineering to support builds and project milestones.
 Lead meetings including gateways and Programme check points.
 Define the engineering change content in response to the Strategic Evaluation Letter.
 Ensure that commodity financial targets reflect the activities required to deliver all features across Product Development.
 Support Programme Manager and Concept Leader to balance performance and cost targets by providing information on the cost to deliver new features.
 Define programme’s Chassis engineering resource requirements (internal and external).
 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.
 Create boundary diagrams for new features & identify which componentry is required to support their delivery.
 Ownership of Chassis System Specification.
 Perform system reviews during concept phase.
 Ensure that Chassis systems and components are delivered by application & platform engineers to achieve the cascaded feature content.
Includes:
 Use external engineering partners as required to deliver system designs & component feature content.
 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 QCFT (quality, cost, function and timing) requirements.
 Work with application & commodity engineers across Research and Development to create a robust vehicle delivery plan for the whole vehicle.
 Ensure that application, platform engineers & external engineering partners achieve the delivery plan, working with them to create & manage recovery plans as required (escalating to the Programme Manager as required).
Includes:
 Manage functional implementation progression over time.
 Manage Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis and Final Engineer Sign Off progression documentation
 Manage together with the Chassis manager, the implementation of the Chassis engineering commodities and delivery lead times.
 Monitor internal & external engineering integration resource utilisation to identify potential efficiency improvements for the next programme.
 Creates & manages whole vehicle integration test plans.
 Support system engineers in system validation.
 Responsible for whole vehicle system qualification, ensuring all features are robustly validated.
 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 & vehicle sign off.
 Assist in data collection and analysis for problem resolution
 Coordinate software versions and incompatibilities within the engineering fleet.
 Support the commodity Final Engineer Sign Off process.
Includes:
 Support system engineers with Practical Failure Mode and Effects Analysis/System Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.
 Support and facilitate System reviews and system FMEA.
 Create information packs to be presented in meetings, to all levels of the business.
 Outsource engineers to achieve the delivery plan.
 Must guarantee the functional and technical delivery of all of the systems to the project.
 Attend cross-functional programme meetings to discuss Chassis delivery issues.
 Must create Chassis gateway slides and attend gateway meetings.
 Manage and lead all required Programme financial reviews. Work with the Programme and Finance teams to provide all information in the correct format.

Qualifications and Experience
• Mechanical Engineering Degree preferred or a degree in another appropriate discipline will be considered
• Extensive experience gained with Chassis commodities.
• Project management experience.
• Proven record or working to strict deadlines.
• Extensive experience gained within a Component Engineering environment.
• Good working knowledge of Excel, Power Point, Project.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Confidence with presenting to seniors and taking away actions.
• Excellent understanding of Chassis technologies and their function.
• Can manage and produce and maintain timing plans.
• Able to manage a small team of 2 - 4 people.
• Confident to interface with many departments such as Finance, Programme Management, Attributes and Purchase
• Strong time management , accuracy , diligence , ability to balance and prioritise multiple tasks to meet customer needs
• Competent in all Microsoft Office applications

Due to the significant growth our client has experienced in recent years it now benefits from being a true multi-site organisation, and as such this role could be based at a number of sites, including Warwickshire, Wellesbourne and Milton Keynes

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

Customer Ref: ETL075(Now ETL068)

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

Job Purpose:

Deliver Electrical and Electronics application commodities and represent platform commodities in the programme team

Key Responsibilities and 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 and Experience
Essential:
• 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 mind-set.
• 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

Location: Warwickshire

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

Customer Ref: ETL023

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

Job Purpose
Create & maintain strategy for electrical architecture to support the client's product & business plans ensuring full cross-functional buy-in to that strategy. Lead technical relationship with client's Electrical and Electronics partner & support commercial activities relating to Electrical and Electronics.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks
• Manage >5 year electrical architecture strategy, ensuring that it supports all R&D feature development plans, budget, resource & timing.
• Work with application engineer & Product Cost Estimating to set programme Financial targets based on Electrical and Electronic strategy.
• Define the Electrical and Electronic concept for each vehicle application based on the strategy & the programme’s cascaded system level targets & features, supporting Concept reviews as required.
• Work with Electrical Systems Architects to develop solutions for any new requirements, challenging to ensure that the best Quality Cost and Delivery approach is applied.
• Lead the technical relationship with the client's Electrical and Electronic partner. Includes running weekly technical reviews with the partner, working with the application engineers to identify critical programme issues & ensuring that those technical discussions are well supported by the Electrical and Electronics team.
• Manage information flow & document storage between the Electrical and Electronic partner & client teams.
• Run change management meeting with Electrical and Electronics partner.
• Lead the technical relationship with Engineering Service providers for electrical and electronic integration on a new Electrical and Electronics. Support second application activities.
• Represent Electrical Research and Development in weekly project reviews, create material for quarterly Vice President cooperation committees & support contract negotiations as required.

Qualifications and Experience
• Electrical / electronics engineering Degree or equivalent
• Preferably Chartered Engineering status or equivalent
• Proven record of vehicle level system integration in terms of hardware and Software). Experience of software development processes and managing sw delivery.
• Understanding of processes involved in delivering Electrical or Electronics commodities, including quality, cost, function, weight and timing, e.g.: body electronics, lighting, switchgear, audio, infotainment, connected car, electrical distribution systems.
• Experience of leading a cross functional team, including complex issue resolution.
• Experience of leading a small engineering team of direct reports.
• 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.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels
• Confident presenter
• Analytical
• Microsoft Sharepoint experience is desirable
• Excellent financial management skills
• Strategic thinking
• Must be able to project manage and work collaboratively with a cross-functional team.
• Knowledge of Can and CAN based tools
• Understanding of German business culture
• Able to manage large workloads in a high pressure environment & prioritise accordingly
• Able to communicate confidently and clearly
• Able to set and deliver targets
• Strategic thinking and decision making skills
• Clean driving license
• Travel may be required, UK & overseas.


Location: Gaydon

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