Our client who is a Midlands based engineering Tier 1 consultancy is looking for an Aerospace CAE/FE Analyst to support an Engines development project.

Position Description:
Experienced CAE/FE Analyst with aerospace engineering background is required to support an ongoing client project working on the development of aerospace engines. Ideally with a degree in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering, you'll have a solid understanding of engineering principles and structural load cases (static and dynamic stress assessment). An excellent working knowledge of either Nastran OR Optistruct is vital and the ability to use HyperWorks for pre/post processing and complex modelling/optimisation is a distinct advantage. Candidates should have broad experience with the design and development of aerospace components/structures, ideally related to aerospace engines and be able to provide support to other engineers on analysis techniques and software functionality. The ability to run optimisation analysis in support of component development is also a requirement for this role. Experience of working with lightweight structures including aluminium castings, pressings and extrusions would be of benefit.

The engineer will have the following:
- Aerospace engineering background and 3-5 years experience running FE analysis;
- Excellent Nastran OR Optistruct skills for both modelling and analysis;
- Ability to support other engineers with analysis techniques and software functionality.
- HyperWorks experience for pre/post processing and complex modelling/optimisation;
- Optimisation experience in the support of component development (topology, size and shape);
- 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.
- Ability to support/train on FE and Software techniques.

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

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

Customer Ref: CHS049

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

Job Purpose
Support design, simulation and integration of Chassis systems from concept through to production

Key Responsibilities & Tasks:
 Support Chassis benchmarking activities at system and component level
 Generate and maintain Chassis Performance targets documentation
 Report out Chassis system status versus targets to support Concept Platform and Application requirements
 Generate and maintain Chassis hard point tracking and release documents
 Support initial definition of tuneable suspension components for early build phases
 Support characterisation of Chassis component parts via rig testing to generate data for Chassis Simulation team and Vehicle Attribute functions
 Document tuneable part requirements and cascade to Component Engineers.
 Generate and maintain Chassis tuneable part trackers
 Support integration of Chassis system archetypes into concept vehicle platform
 Support early (X0/X1) Chassis vehicle build and test planning
 Create and maintain interface control documentation for joints and fixings
 Support continual improvement processes and assist with investigations into ride, handling and steering issues during development
 Support problem solving / Quality teams as directed by management.
 Support Chassis Innovation strategy by keeping abreast of relevant technical developments within the industry
 Support creation of internal processes, standards and test procedures for Chassis Performance area
 Assist with IPR searches for Chassis systems and components
 Work with Vehicle Attribute areas to ensure Chassis concepts are compatible with vehicle level targets
 Liaise with Manufacturing, Aftersales and L&C functions to ensure specific requirements are captured

Qualification & Experience
• Engineering Degree in appropriate discipline
• Experience gained within Chassis design.
• Experience working within Chassis / Vehicle Dynamics in an OEM
• Experience of setting and maintaining Chassis system targets
• Good understanding of Chassis & Vehicle Dynamic properties and tuning
• Worked as a Chassis Component Engineer for at least 2 years
• Competent with Chassis CAE software (ADAMS/CAR, SHARK, VI-Grade Car Real Time)
• Good working knowledge of Excel
• Working knowledge of Altair Hyperworks, nCode, Matlab
• Working knowledge of automotive suspension, braking, and steering systems
• Knowledge of Mission Product Development process or equivalent (GPDS, FPDS)
• Strong time management, accuracy, diligence, ability to balance and prioritise multiple tasks to meet customer needs
• Competent in all Microsoft Office applications

Location: Gaydon

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

Customer Ref: ETL081

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

Job Purpose
Design & develop new and existing vehicle power management requirements

Key Responsibilities and Tasks
• Manage the design of vehicle power management systems to ensure robust electrical power delivery for all electrical systems, supporting the vehicle development timing.
• Ensure that all PMST leaders provide the required data to support the system power management requirements.
o Power consumption
o Current characteristics
o Nominal operating current.
o Key off load
• Alternator specification & package
o Load balance simulation via mapping of electrical consumers
o Load balance testing
o Electrical requirements of alternator
o Environmental requirements of alternator
o Appropriate package within the engine assembly
o Harness requirements for the alternator
o Support development of charge strategies and charging profiles
• Battery
o Understand the battery specification and requirements
o Specify the appropriate battery for each application
o Understanding of Lithium chassis batteries
o Calculate battery life using electrical consumer/Key off load data
o Implement appropriate battery protection
o Characterise vehicle cranking profiles on car
o Test cranking profiles using simulation tools on breadboards
• Specify appropriate DC/DC convertors for each vehicle application.
• Understand charging technologies
• Understand Traction battery technology, for both EV and Hybrid vehicles
• Conduct and document vehicle benchmarking.
• Component Releasing and Change Control management
• Support sub-system DFMEA reviews.
• Control of Design Verification Plans and Sign off Report for owned components.
• Coordinate and support vehicle testing for all owned components.
• Support vehicle builds and provide problem solving (‘8D’ process).
• Support cost and weight down initiatives
• Define future technology strategy and implementation plans

Qualifications and Experience
• Engineering degree or equivalent qualification.
• Experience gained within automotive electrical design and development.
• Extensive knowledge of battery technology and battery requirements
• Extensive knowledge of Alternator technology and associated requirements
• Good experience and knowledge of vehicle electrical systems, especially DC/DC converters and battery protection systems.
• Experience of battery load balance requirements.
• Experience of project management.
• Project managed battery systems successfully into production.
• Working knowledge of relevant regulations and approvals
• Understanding of electric vehicles & traction battery technology & requirements
• Must be able to use electrical test equipment.
• Ability to support and input at FMEA reviews.
• Ability to support prototype builds.
• Manage a large workload in a high-pressure environment.
• Ability to analyse test data from supplier testing and work to timely solutions when required.
• Must have good report writing skills.
• Must be proactive and trust their initiative using minimum supervision to produce practical solutions.

Location: Warwickshire

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: PTN119

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

Job Purpose
Our client has a large number of new and exciting product programmes. Over the next few years several of these programmes run in parallel and incremental resource is required to support the aggressive launch plans. This role is to define the cooling system strategy and components for the next decade, covering both large and small pressure charged engines.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks
• Working with the Cooling System Module Leader to determine cross platform cooling system strategy for all future product including:
o Vehicle integration of cooling systems.
o Base engine cooling, water and oil.
o Inter-cooling, including air/air and air /water systems.
o Transmission cooling.
o Hybrid systems cooling.
• Define and specify, from first principles, cooling system/component specification.
• Lead/support Computer Aided Engineering investigations into system layout/selection.
• Support Cooling System Module Leader with technical expertise.
• Lead/support general Quality Cost Weight and Function activities for cooling systems
• Generate/present technical papers to support/drive programme and product decisions.
• Liaise with system engineers and suppliers to determine component and system requirements.
• Co-ordinate packaging schemes to meet component requirements and corporate standards.
• Produce information to support package reviews, including consideration from all affected areas including production (Design For Assembly), certification, environmental, service and logistics.
• Identify CAD requirements and check Model and 2D details to Aston Martin Lagonda drafting standards for release.
• Release components in time to meet Change Management Meeting dates for programme timing gateways.
• Support supplier selection, parts procurement for both prototype and production builds including Request For Information and Request For Quotation.
• Generate Bill of Material information.
• Lead Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis and Design Verification Plan generation to including the setting of corporate test procedures/standards.
• Design should be optimised for component and system performance, strength, material selection and weight through experience, hand calculations and the use of analysis tools.
• Support the development of in house design test and development standards and procedures.
• Support component and vehicle development/validation through the use of Hot Environmental Testing.

Qualifications and Experience
• Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience.
• Recent experience of automotive OEM cooling, at component and system level, including specification, design and development.
• A flexible ability to work on multiple tasks to a tight timescale, accurately, without detailed supervision.
• Competent with MS Office.
• Good communications and presentation skills.

Perm role Location: Wellesbourne

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

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

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