Customer Ref: IEM060 / IEM062

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

Job Purpose
Coordinate the development and integration of Interior trim for Cockpit & Cabin systems and manage interior components on new vehicle programmes as part of cross-functional team.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks
• Represent Body Interior functions in the cross-functional application team.
• Review Body Interior change content in response to Strategic Evaluation Letter (SEL)
• Work with vehicle engineering and functional engineering teams to ensure that Body Interior commodities are fully integrated and achieve vehicle programme targets.
• Assist with the submission of documents including Engineering Concept Matrix, BoM and Final Engineering Sign-Off to describe and report status of parts on the project.
• Work with cost estimating and purchasing functions to establish appropriate piece and tooling cost targets and maintain cost tracker (CMS)
• Coordinate functional actions relating to piece/tooling cost gap closure and challenge and optimise D&D costs
• Work with Purchasing to ensure system selection & sourcing of Interior commodities.
• Monitor closure of all Body Interior concerns (Ecms) at all stages of the programme in line with required build phase implementation.
• Review parts/ designs for all new content and ensure they are available on time and at required maturity and quality for all physical and virtual builds
• Monitor submission of all Body Interior releases for the applicable programme

Qualifications and Experience
• Engineering degree (or equivalent) within an engineering related discipline
• Experience gained within automotive engineering / product development
• Prior experience in development and/or integration of Body Interior Trim components and systems on new vehicle programmes
• Experience of legislative and DV requirements for the design of interior trim.
• A working knowledge of component manufacturing, tooling requirements & lead times.
• Experienced working in cross-functional teams
• Proven skills and ability to deliver engineering solutions on time to cost, quality and targets
• Understands testing and validation requirements for automotive body systems
• Good grasp of engineering fundamentals and familiar with problem solving and failure mode avoidance techniques including DFMEA
• Familiar with technology and industry benchmarks applicable to Interior Trim.
• Proficient in the use of Teamcentre / VisMockup to interrogate designs
• Knowledge of NX an advantage
• Self-starting and self-motivated - Able to work with minimal supervision.
• Able to balance conflicting requirements within cross-functional teams and positively influence decisions on product definition and design.
• Thorough, data-driven approach to solving engineering issues
• Confident communicator – able to present at design reviews and technical forums
• Full driving licence
• Role may require periods of working at other manufacturing site(s) in the UK and occasional travel to suppliers in UK and Europe.

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 business.

Customer Ref: SSD150

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

Job Purpose:
• Supporting the body engineering Programme Module Sub Teams and Programme Attribute Teams in the generation of detailed component and system level engineering targets – through experience/lessons learnt, interrogation of previous programme targets, and benchmarking of competitor products.
• Creating & updating Design Verification Plans (DVPs) across Body Engineering Systems and vehicle programs.
• Supporting body engineering Programme Module Sub Teams with body commodity related development and testing.
• To execute body engineering development & testing particularly for durability, strength and craftsmanship.
• To provide proactive, creative and practical problem solving to advance the development of body engineering designs.
• Supporting early failure mode detection through the creation and testing of development bucks, sub-assemblies and prototype parts.
• To Create, critique, and execute test plans to ensure design verification and reporting is performed in the most effective and efficient manner.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks
• Participate in the engineering design from targets through development to sign-off & production
• Support Design reviews from target settings through to development of production parts
• Organise both in-house & out-source testing (liaise with suppliers, organise & follow-up component procurement, organise test planning & manage test method specification)
• Support/Execute component, sub-system, system & whole vehicle tests
• Communicate/Present test results & support technical reviews
• Write/Archive test reports & deviations
• Raise concerns where necessary
• Develop corrective solutions
• Attend Programme Module Sub Team meetings & advise on upcoming changes
• Generate new concept ideas
• Source or fabricate pre-prototype/development parts
• Participate in benchmarking activities to support design & target setting
• Design & build test rigs
• Update current test methods, write new test methods

Qualifications and Experience
• Engineering Degree (or equivalent qualification) – Automotive or Mechanical Engineering preferred
• Experience of hands on testing (body systems, sub-systems & components)
• Experience of using NX, Team Centre and Vis Mock-up would be beneficial
• Experience gained within Automotive industry (experience within other engineering sectors will also be considered)
• Experience in Engineering problem resolving (for example body components, structures & systems)
• Pragmatic hands-on problem solving
• Data recording, analysis & report writing
• Technical & practical workshop skills (build of rigs, use of CAD drawings, GD&T)
• Excellent communication skills: Able to communicate ideas clearly & concisely
• Good physical condition required
• Capability of working under pressure
• Good spatial awareness & conceptual abilities
• Ability to manage multiple demands on time & priorities
• Excellent analytical & systematic approach to problem solving
• Ability to take decisions that minimise engineering risk in a solution
• The successful candidate must be able to learn quickly and integrate into a successful and dynamic team, offering strong character attributes as well as the necessary knowledge and experience above.
• The best candidate will be open-minded and lateral thinking in the face of stiff timing and product targets.
• The successful candidate should be able to exhibit creative problem solving ability and commitment to meet stretch targets. The candidate must be proactive and trust their initiative with minimum supervision to produce practical solutions.
• Clear understanding of deadlines and timing plans based on new vehicle project timing. Particularly Programme Start, Programme Strategy Confirmation, Programme Targets Confirmation, Final Data Judgement and Final Engineering Complete gateways.

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

Customer Ref: ETL083

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

Job Purpose:
The purpose of this role is to deliver Electrical & Electronics application commodities and represent platform commodities in the programme team.

Key Responsibilities & 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 & Experience
• 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 mindset.
• 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.

Customer Ref: PTN156

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

Job Purpose
Engine structural simulation and analysis

Key Responsibilities and Tasks
• Develop, implement and maintain numerical models
• Contribute to the methodology
• Collaborating with design and experiment to understand the requirements of the models

Qualifications and Experience
• Master of Science Degree in Engineering
• Experience in structural simulations with Finite Elements
• Experience in automotive and powertrain applications
• Experience in Dynamic analysis (desirable)
• Self driven and self motivated to achieve departmental scorecard targets
• Manage different parallel open tasks and identify priorities
• Excellent communication skills
• Quality driven and understanding of build
• Able to maintain a confidentiality around sensitive company information

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: 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 Aston Martin Lagonda 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.