Customer Ref: 37027865

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

Customer Experience Specialist (37027865) - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 12 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Duties:
In this role you will define and shape the future of our customers vehicle efficiency experiences for our products. Championing internal innovation, utilising customer and competitor insights to compliment industry & market trend analysis and futuring; you will identify, analyse, concept validate, select and recommend opportunities for product developments that enhance our customers experiences of vehicle efficiency, ensuring our products remain ideally tailored to our customers needs and expectations.

Define the Customer Efficiency Experience
- Translate customer needs, behavioural insights, and usage patterns into actionable information.
- Investigate competitor offerings and innovations providing analysis to inform our strategic development direction.
- Monitor industry trends and global market legislative evolutions, providing analysis and recommendations.
- Create customer journeys that blend customer & vehicle behaviour, environmental contexts, in-vehicle HMI, and mobile connected digital ecosystem experiences into a seamless, efficiency‑enhancing holistic customer experience.
- Provide clear and holistic information, analysis, and recommendations for the development of Vehicle Efficiency Features to enhance the efficiency experience of our vehicles.

Data‑Driven Feature Development
- Utilise customer vehicle data to generate information and insights that can be used to direct strategic development.
- Enact customer insights data gathering activities to glean tailored feedback from our customers and inform future developments or validate initial concepts.

Experience & Feature Road-mapping
- Define future efficiency experience roadmaps.
- Influence business decisions by articulating the need for development and enhancement of vehicle efficiency features.

Concept Development & Validation
- Work with UX/UI teams to define how efficiency insights are communicated to the customer.
- Identify and deliver prototyping of new concepts for early concept validation.

End-to-End Mindset & Systems Thinking
- Develop concepts considering the end-to-end technical architecture and holistic impact analysis.
- Define functional decomposition, ownership boundaries and allocations.
- Produce design artefacts and requirements to support onwards delivery.

Skills:
- Customer Insight & Behaviour Analysis - Skilled at translating customer needs, usage patterns, and behavioural insights into actionable efficiency feature requirements.
- Market, Competitor & Trend Analysis - Strong capability in analysing competitor offerings, industry innovation, and global legislative trends to inform strategic product direction.
- Customer Experience Design - Experienced in creating holistic customer journeys that integrate vehicle behaviour, environmental context, HMI interactions, and connected digital ecosystems.
- Data‑Driven Decision Making - Proficient in analysing customer vehicle data to identify opportunities, validate concepts, and guide future efficiency feature development.
- Concept Development & Prototyping - Skilled in ideation, early‑stage concept creation, and delivery of prototypes for rapid validation of efficiency‑enhancing features.
- UX/UI Collaboration - Experienced in working with UX/UI teams to define and communicate efficiency insights intuitively through in‑vehicle and digital interfaces.
- Systems Thinking & End‑to‑End Architecture - Strong capability in assessing feature impacts across systems, defining functional decomposition, and ensuring architecture alignment.
- Requirements Definition & Design Artefacts - Competent in creating clear feature requirements, design documentation, and artefacts supporting engineering delivery.
- Strategic Road‑Mapping - Skilled in defining future efficiency experience roadmaps and influencing strategic business decisions through strong communication of customer value.
- Cross‑Functional Leadership - Effective collaboration across engineering, product strategy, UX, data teams, and programme functions to align feature intent with delivery.
- Innovation & Opportunity Identification - Ability to identify, analyse, and recommend new product opportunities through insight‑driven innovation and concept validation.
- Communication & Stakeholder Engagement - Clear, concise communicator capable of presenting insights, recommendations, and customer experience strategies to diverse stakeholders.

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

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

Customer Ref: 37116062

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

Integration Engineer - Vehicle Efficiency (37116062) - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 12 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Duties:
Reporting to the Vehicle Architecture's Efficiency Product Owner and working within the Agile operating model, responsibilities will include:
- Conducting strategic target setting for the Vehicle Efficiency attribute (including competitive positioning assessment & benchmarking, assessment of fleet compliance requirements, customer feedback data analysis, real-world customer data analysis, reviews of legislative requirements etc.)
- Coordinating and contributing towards Vehicle Efficiency attribute virtual verifications and data analysis
- Conducting target compatibility assessment and negotiation between the Vehicle Efficiency attribute and vehicle energy node owners
- Collaborating with energy node owners in influencing and defining strategic technology roadmaps compatible with Vehicle Efficiency attribute requirements and customer trends
- Supporting effective Vehicle Efficiency attribute governance throughout vehicle programmes, identifying and making recommendations for how to handle risks and opportunities as they arise
- Ensuring Vehicle Efficiency attribute and energy node assumption data is robustly and efficiently administrated and made available to business stakeholders
- Collaborating with tools and methods teams to ensure Vehicle Efficiency attribute development requirements are well defined and aligned with programme objectives
- Where programme delivery imperatives allow, contribute and add value to tools and methods development project work
- Undertaking any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested

Skills:
- Strong technical engineering background with evidence of a methodical, structured approach to problem solving
- Experience of Vehicle attribute and/or vehicle system delivery
- Knowledge of vehicle efficiency legislative homologation/certification methods, processes and implementation
- Technical understanding of how vehicle energy nodes (road load, propulsion efficiency, electrical loads etc.) affect vehicle-level efficiency and driving range
- Strong presentation skills with the ability to use data and visualisations to articulate complex risks, opportunities and recommendations in an easily digestible way
- Good communication skills, with the ability to simplify and articulate complex technical subject matters
- Self motivated and independent, able to work and deliver value autonomously within client's Agile operating model
- Well-organised and diligent, able to keep a handle on technical administration

Education:
Educated to Degree level (ideally with a focus on Mechanical or System Engineering) with significant relevant industrial experience.

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.
Hybrid working is a possibility. Minimum requirement of 2 days a week in the office but as and when business requires.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

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

Customer Ref: 37098399

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

Senior Software Engineer in Test (37098399) - £57.50/hr (Inside IR35) - Manchester & Hybrid - 12 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Role Overview
A Senior Software Engineer in Test with a passion for quality, and proven experience of automated software testing, is
required for a variety of digital projects being delivered for our client based in Manchester. We are looking for great
engineers who have a passion for innovative problem solving, quality-first coding and practicing Continuous Integration.

- Would you thrive in an exciting, dynamic and creative start-up environment, but also enjoy the security, resources
and influence of an established and successful organisation?
- Would you excel within a world-class and passionate team that loves what they do?
- Are you passionate about mentoring and sharing your skills with fellow engineers?

You will form part of a collaborative, iterative and agile process in a multi-disciplined team helping deliver best in class digital
solutions. This role provides a unique opportunity to help support and grow an entirely new software development
capability.
Reporting to the Principal Software Engineer in Test and working closely with other multi-disciplined engineers, you will be
a valued member of the Global Digital Development Centre team, consistently delivering to challenging business objectives,
with a focus on testability, robustness, security and performance for exciting new projects. You will work on real projects
alongside experienced engineers and will be expected to take on some mentoring and coaching of less experienced
engineers in the lab as well as contributing to process improvements in the lab.

Key Responsibilities
- Define and implement testing for cloud systems, including platform and APIs in an agile manner
- Implement testing frameworks and where required utilising automation tools
- Support issue investigation and resolution
- Work closely with the SRE team to develop strategies to meet required SLAs and SLOs
- Define testing quality stages and gates within the software development process
- Define and Implement testing and release process for cloud systems
- Implement tests stages in pipelines, testing tool configuration, and scripting where required to implement the test
strategy and processes
- Set quality goals and measurables for the system, devise and ensure the system meets these goals
- Establish a culture of maintaining continual testing and continual quality in our systems
- Line management for a junior software developer in test

Skills
Our Senior Software Engineers in Test should have:
- 5+ years’ experience in automated software testing in an agile and DevOps culture, with deep knowledge of the
STLC and a real passion for quality
- Strong experience with tools such as Robot, Selenium, Post Man or Cypress
We are keen to speak to people who also have the following skills:

- 5+ years’ experience developing and testing bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native applications
- 5+ years’ experience with Java, Python or another OO language
- Experience with software quality tools such as SonarQube
- Experience with relational database technologies such as MySQL or similar
- Experienced advocate for practices such as Test Driven Development and Pair Programming
- Experience with Microservices architectures, RESTful APIs and message queues
- Strong programming skills
- Experience with source code management and version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab)
- Experience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques
- Previous involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle
- Passion for mentoring and technical coaching of developers
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

The following skills and experience are nice to have:
- Experience in BDD and creating tests using Gherkin syntax
- Experience working with observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
- Experience with Kubernetes or other cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure)
- Familiarity with polyglot persistence and experience with a NoSQL database engine (Mongo, Neo4j, etc)

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

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

Customer Ref: 37091488

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

UX Copywriter - In-Vehicle Digital Interfaces (37091488) - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire & Hybrid - 12 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Role Overview
As a UX Copywriter for In-Vehicle Digital Interfaces, you will shape the voice, clarity, and effectiveness of all textual touchpoints within our digital cockpit experiences. Working at the intersection of design, engineering, and brand, you will define how our vehicles communicate, ensuring every message is intuitive, concise, on-brand, and compliant with safety and regulatory standards.
You will be responsible for reviewing, refining, and approving all in-vehicle text including infotainment, clusters, notifications, warning messages, settings, and connected services. You will also lead the development of messaging strategies, patterns, tone of voice guidelines, and frameworks that support consistent communication across platforms and vehicle lines.

Key Responsibilities
UX Writing & Content Design
- Review and refine all text displayed on in-vehicle digital interfaces.
- Produce clear, concise, and user-centred copy including labels, CTAs, menus, error messages, system prompts, warning messages, and instructional content.
- Ensure all content aligns with client brand voice and supports a premium customer experience.
- Ensure text is translatable, culturally appropriate, and scalable across global markets.
Warning Messaging Strategy
- Define warning messaging principles, guidance, and language standards.
- Lead a recurring cross functional forum to ideate, review, and approve warning messages.
- Establish, maintain, and release scalable message libraries and copy patterns to drive consistency across nameplates and platforms.
Collaboration & Delivery
- Work closely with interaction designers, product owners, HMI engineers, and researchers to ensure content enhances overall user experience.
- Contribute to design reviews, user testing, and iterative refinement of digital cockpit features.
Research & Continuous Improvement
- Use insights from user research, usability testing, telematics data, and competitive analysis to optimise content.
- Champion UX writing and content design best practices across the organisation.

Skills & Experience
Essential
- Expert command of the English language, with impeccable grammar and clarity.
- Proven experience in UX writing, content design, or product writing for digital interfaces (preferably embedded or hardware-related).
- Exceptional writing and editing skills with a focus on clarity, brevity, and user experience.
- Experience working within design teams using tools such as Figma, Jira, Confluence, or similar.
- Understanding of UX/UI principles, design systems, and content patterns.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and navigate cross-functional decision making.
Desirable
- Experience in automotive, consumer electronics, or other embedded systems.
- Familiarity with internationalisation (i18n) and localisation (l10n) best practices.
- Knowledge of HMI standards, accessibility principles, and multimodal interface design.
- Ability to contribute to user research and testing activities.
Attributes
- Detail-oriented and committed to quality.
- Strong communicator with the ability to advocate for content design.
- Empathetic, user-focused mindset.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.
Hybrid – 2 days per week office-based

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

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

Customer Ref: 37091428

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

Vehicle Concepts Design Engineer (37091428) - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 11 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Our client is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Vehicle Concepts Engineer to join the Whole Vehicle Concepts team within VAVE Off Cycle Projects. In this role, you will support the creation of early phase CAD schemes that contribute to the upper body and/or under body package layout for future vehicle products. Working under the guidance of experienced engineers, you will help ensure that concept layouts meet Engineering, Manufacturing, and Creative requirements during the Concept phase (pre CS to KO). You will collaborate closely with teams including Vehicle Architectures and Engineering, Body & Chassis Concepts, Studio, Human Factors, Body Structural Integration, and Advanced Powertrain. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to influence the development of future vehicles and architectures, whilst working alongside passionate and talented people.

Essential Skills & Experience
- Proficiency in 3D CAD creation and visualisation, with hands on experience in Catia V6 or a comparable 3D modelling package. The role involves extensive CAD work, supporting the development of whole vehicle concept layouts.
- Understanding of fundamental vehicle packaging principles, in at least one of the following areas and have experience of working within at least one UN or UP Zone:
- Upper body: occupant positioning, IP/console layout, steering column, pedals, ingress/egress, visibility, trunk usability.
- Underbody: ground lines, attitude planes, clearances, approach/departure angles, axle locations, tyre envelopes, and basic powertrain motion envelopes.
- A proactive attitude to learning and to taking ownership of tasks, with the ability to manage work under the guidance of senior engineers.
- Strong attention to detail and good organisational skills.
- Ability to work effectively within a team and independently when given clear direction.
- Good communication skills, with the ability to present work clearly, share knowledge proactively, and seek feedback constructively.
- Strong interpersonal and networking skills, with a willingness to engage proactively with colleagues in different locations to support effective teamwork.

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

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