Customer Ref: 34969

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

Division:
Body Engineering.

Position Description:
This position presents an exciting opportunity to become part of a unique and evolving department within Body Engineering, developing advanced feature strategies and leading content delivery across many programs. In this role you will be exposed to a variety of components, systems, suppliers and cross PD functions, playing a key part in creating and driving robustness and quality into the moving glass and side door systems team.
Reporting to the departmental Group Leader and/or Programme Module Leader within Door system area, the Lead Engineer will potentially work across all of the Door commodities.

Key Responsibilities
- Lead definition & design activities from PS through to Job 1, managing the Module Business Teams and interfacing with engineering, purchase, programme team, marketing and manufacturing functions, plus tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers.
- Management of and liaise with other adjacent stakeholders and functions, including suppliers, to ensure system compatibility issues are resolved according to cost and time targets.
- Support system strategy development for components and features.
- Develop and maintain local processes and metrics.
- Delivery of the Body Engineering functional scorecard.

Skills Required:
3 KEY SKILLS
- Excellent first hand knowledge of component design principles within Side door Systems component Design, including component production techniques such as injection moulding / aluminium extrusion / Zinc Casting / TPE extrusion and mouldings. This will involve working with and across many diverse components such as Dynamic Body/Door Seals, Door Glass Run Seals, Body and Door Mounted finishers / Claddings and/or Glass Lift systems involving Glass and Regulators and/or Door mounted module plates among others.
- Project Management skills, delivery of project from concept to full production.
- Good communication & systems engineering skills approach to project development.

Experience Required:
- Be capable of engineering complex parts and / or assemblies, with particular consideration of part to part interfaces and relationships, including CAE, DFM and DFA requirements.
- The Lead Engineer should be able to demonstrate design flair and the ability to be able to engineer a range of solutions to a design problem.
- Experience of investigative tools and methods to resolve complex system issues
- The Lead Engineer will be an effective communicator and have strong organisational and numerical skills.
- Lead Engineer should be ideally educated to Degree level or equivalent.

Experience Preferred:
- Previous experience/knowledge of the Body Engineering environment is essential for this role.
- Proven knowledge of Product Development and business; processes and systems. Engineering knowledge of Body Engineering systems, component design, function, performance, production and manufacturing requirements.
- A good understanding of the change management process (PACN and WERS processes), Design Verification (RMDV), Design FMEA and AIMS processes would be advantageous."

Additional Information :
In summary...As a Lead Engineer you will manage and coordinate all delivery aspects within the design process, from Initial concept through to volume production.

Operating in a cross-functional organisation, reporting to a Module leader and a Group Leader. There will be an emphasis on delivering robust systems, such as Moving Glass and/or Dynamic sealing systems within programme defined time-lines and gateways, ultimately delivering components which meet weight / cost and quality requirements against defined targets including delivery all vehicle attributes. This will involve working with and across many diverse components such as Dynamic Body/Door Seals, Door Glass Run Seals, Body and Door Mounted finishers and/or Glass Lift systems involving Glass and Regulators and/or Door mounted module plates among others. You will be involved in the detailed development of the components from the Concept phase through the many gateways to production Launch (Job1). You will also have the opportunity to develop new concepts and deliver systems from current Bill of Designs (BoD?s). Development of the system and how it interacts within the body architecture, working with partners such as AME, PVT, Purchase, Cost Engineering, Quality, Design, STA, Electrical, BIW, CAE, Optical Quality, Test Area, Manufacturing and others. Managing the way those parts interact with each other and the way they interact with the body architecture. Workers must be onsite 5 days a week.

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

Customer Ref: 34897

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

Division:
Manufacturing Engineering

Position Description:
- Assist in projects to improve efficiency and reduce lead-times.
- Contribute to standardising material testing equipment and procedures across supply based and within our Press Shops.
- Supporting activities to ensure all incoming material is quality assured before going to press.
- Contribute to the creation and maintenance of material related process standards e.g. blanker and `Head of Line' specifications.
- Support the timely ordering of material for TTO, HLTO and Production Ramp-up for all new Model Programmes.
- Contribute to material supplier identification, developments and performance assessments.
- Monitoring non-processed scrap rates and supporting activities to minimise `avoidable' scrap and to maximise the value to client of the related processed scrap.

3 KEY SKILLS

1) Understanding of materials, and material properties and processes specifically relating to forming technologies.

2) A working knowledge of steel and aluminium manufacturing and press shop facilities (e.g. blast furnaces, cast houses, rolling mills, heat treatment lines, cut to length and blanking lines, destackers, reoilers, presses, etc.)

3) An ability to analyse and assess large amounts of data and relevant previous experience in material quality assurance or similar.

Experience Required:
Suitable applicants are likely to possess a relevant degree or PhD although this is not essential if the individual can evidence the necessary capabilities.

Experience Preferred:
- Proven ability in delivering tasks &/or projects within tight timescales.
- Strong MS Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel) skill set and experience of Google tools.

Flexibility: Warwickshire based candidates would be expected to be mobile with regular travel to each of our Press Shops (Birmingham, Solihull,Liverpool) anticipated and as well as occasional overseas travel.

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

Customer Ref: 34457

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

Division:
Chassis Engineering.

Position Description:
The Brakes Modulation Department is responsible for the delivery of innovative Stability Control Systems (SCS) to meet complex attribute targets including NVH, performance, durability, and pedal feel. The team carry the design through from concept to final release delivering quality, on time at the right cost. Reporting to the Group Leader Modulation, the Lead Engineer is responsible for delivery of Stability Control System hardware and software for a single platform from <PS> through to Job 1 + 90 days. In this role the successful candidate will be expected to coordinate a cross functional team via regular Module Business Team meetings with the common objective to deliver an SCS system specification that satisfies the attribute performance and feature content demanded by the programme, and Best In Class quality whilst adhering to programme cost, weight, and timing targets.

3 KEY SKILLS
- The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate strong team leadership and organisational skills and will be enthusiastic for task, highly motivated and largely self-sufficient.
- Experience of solving complex technical issues using 8D methodologies
- Strong English language based written and verbal communication skills including the ability to present to senior colleagues across the business and supplier base.

Experience Required:
- Ability to negotiate technical solutions within a multi-disciplinary team and will have the ability to manage conflict and balance opposing programme demands.
- Coordination and delegation of task to team members and maintain strong working relationships within the Module Business team.
- High level user of the MS Office suite of software.
- UK Driving Licence for Cat B vehicles
- Ability to demonstrate a successful track record in the management of complex projects.
- Proven track record of meeting JLR PCS (or GPDS) deliverables.
- Experienced user of the WERS process to release design iterations.
- Experience in development of complex automotive electromechanical systems using a Systems Engineering approach.
- Thorough knowledge of basic quality engineering tools- including FMEA and robust application of Lessons Learned from previous programmes

Experience Preferred:
- Experience in the design and delivery of electro-mechanical systems desired. I.E. Mechanical systems with functions controlled by software housed in an ECU or of a component engineering role - preferably gained in an automotive environment.
- Client driver training to Class 3 'On Road' and PG3 would be an advantage.

Additional Information :
The role will be based in Warwickshire but travel to other locations, including manufacturing plants and suppliers will be required from time to time.

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

Customer Ref: 34450

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

Division:
Special Vehicle Operations

Position Description:
SVO Wheels project Engineer required to work within wheels and tyres team. Experienced wheel Engineer required to support new and current SVO programmes.Position will require an engineer to hit the ground running and Lead wheel delivery on SVO projects.

3 key skills required

Engineering delivery experience of delivering wheels in Automotive/Mechanical/motorsport engineering industry.

Experience of Chassis systems

Engineering degree qualified.

Experience Required:
Degree Qualified Engineer (Automotive/Mechanical/Motorsport engineeing) with 1-2 years experience of wheel or tyre delivery in the Automotive/Motorsport industry.

Experience Preferred:
Experience of client systems and processes (PCDS) is desireable. Knowledge of WERS, RMDV, AIMS and Tce.

Additional Information : Gaydon / FenEnd

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

Customer Ref: 33644

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

Division:
Powertrain

Position Description:
The Electrified Propulsion Systems, Calibration & Controls (EPSCC) team is responsible for delivering Full Hybrid, Plug-In Hybrid, Electric Vehicle and stop-start systems to the business. These are highly complex electro-mechanical systems. System design and functional safety is led by a single team to ensure close integration of the functional safety requirements into the hybrid designs. An opportunity has arisen within the team for a Functional Safety engineer to work across a number of production and research projects, to develop safety cases for these systems and ensure they are appropriately validated.

The Functional Safety Engineer will work closely both with teams within the EPSCC and cross functionally with Powertrain, Electrical and Chassis, including those of the HV battery, Power inverter / DCDC and Vehicle Supervisory Control (VSC).

The Functional Safety Engineer will have responsibility for ensuring the safe operation of the system both in normal and fault conditions and developing the safety cases for the systems to demonstrate this against ISO26262 guidelines. This will involve managing the safe design of a concept from hazard identification and classification through to final validation against the safety case.

The Functional Safety Engineer will have the following responsibilities:

- Hazard and Risk Analysis development
- Organise and execute user trials
- Develop Functional Safety concepts
- Develop Safety Requirements to cascade to the suppliers
- Validate the Safety Case is met
- Sign-off the system through the production of the Safety Case Report
- Functional Safety Assessment

Skills Required:
3 KEY SKILLS REQUIRED:

1) Application of ISO26262 functional safety analysis guidelines to complex system functionality

2) Requirements capture, cascade and agreement with internal and external stakeholders

3) Knowledge of the application of Failure Mode Avoidance toolsets (FMEA, Boundary & P Diagrams)


Experience Required:
- Experience of hazard identification
- Experience of full V cycle of control system development and testing
- Strong experience with safety related systems, particularly complex electronic systems.
- Actual involvement in safety case production and 3rd party assessment.
- Safety critical software techniques and methods.
- Design for safety related systems.
- Safety system analysis
- Experience with the various safety standards (IEC91508, ISO26262, Def-Stan etc.).
- The candidate should be qualified to degree level or be able to demonstrate equivalent levels of training & experience.

Experience Preferred:
- Experience working in the automotive sector
- Experience of working on hybrid / electrified vehicles
- Experience in SysML / UML
- Supplier liaison experience.
- A working knowledge of key delivery systems (PCDS, TCDS).

Additional Information:
- Role is primarily Warwickshire based, but may require travel to other sites at Coventry, Solihull and Warwick University
- Candidate to provide own safety shoes for any work in vehicle workshops. HV safety training will be provided as required

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