Our global motorcycle manufacturing client is urgently looking to fill the following role:

Role context and purpose:
To provide administration and project support to the Chassis function, ensuring the smooth operation of day to day activities, including budget management, NDA logging, event coordination and project support as and when required.

Scope and Impact:
- You will have a contributory role in the running of the chassis design and development department which will help to deliver a new motorcycle product.
- You will work across all levels of the business providing front of house support, liaising with key stakeholders within the business.

Key responsibilities:
Your key responsibilities will include, but not limited to:
1. Drawing release administration, for all new drawings released from within UK Tech Centre
- Checking drawings conform to process.
- Liaise with engineers to ensure corrections are made.
- Process the Design Release quickly and efficiently.
- Assist engineers with any system/process related queries.
- Update the master vehicle bill of materials.

2. Organisation of parts and bike shipments.
- Organising shipping of controlled items.
- Collating and placing monthly part orders.
- Tracking progress of orders and deliveries.
- Assign and distribute the order to the responsible engineers.

3. Finance related administration:
- Data entry into budget databases
- Checking invoices before forwarding for payment
- Raising purchase orders through SAP.

4. Prototype and pre-production parts related administration:
- Obtaining quotes from suppliers for prototype and pre-production parts
- Prepare and submit excel-based expenditure request forms where required
- Dealing with prototype suppliers for all queries, arranging deliveries and collections.
- Processing orders
- 3D scanning and printing in house.

5. Purchasing of Bikes
- Obtaining quotes from suppliers.
- Prepare and submit excel-based expenditure request forms.
- Deal with suppliers for all queries, arranging deliveries and collection.
- Processing orders.

6. General administration:
- Produce general operating procedures.
- May occasionally help prepare presentations on behalf of engineering teams
- Typing letters, reports and issue sheets.
- General filing

7. Event Management:
- Organising quarterly company events
- Liaise with suppliers for equipment/food orders.
- Purchasing of items
- Coordinating with all employees

8. SAP
- Ordering parts/materials/services through sap
- Being a single point of contact for your team.

Key Attributes:

- Able to demonstrate good time management
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Excellent organisational skills
- Good communicator, clear and concise.
- Flexible, ability to travel to other work locations including outside of the UK as and when required.

Qualifications and Experience:
- GCSE Maths and English – Grade C minimum (or equivalent)
- IT literacy is essential experience on the G-suite platform is an advantage
- Excellent attention to detail and strong communication skills
- Good team working skills
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Excellent organisational skills
- Past experience in a diverse and fast paced administration role.

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

Customer Ref: 36115

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

Division:
Body Engineering

Position Description:
This role will be within the Chassis and Motion Control Systems team, forming part of the Body/Chassis Engineering Department. The team provides control system and software design and development expertise for existing and future Chassis Electrical, ADAS Motion Control, and various new technologies and enhancing the driving experience and working towards the goal of autonomous driving.

This role is for an experienced and highly motivated controls engineer with responsibility for the design, development and delivery of in-house control systems and software for future ADAS features.
Tasks include:

Design and development of model based control strategies. This includes development and demonstration of new concepts and systems via desktop simulation and concept vehicles, and working with software engineers to update and improve existing systems and architectures.

Requirements analysis and decomposition, control strategy design, development and execution of validation process and associated simulation environments.

Working with a team of system and control engineers, including an offshore team, to deliver concept and production systems in a timely manner according to vehicle programme timing and local delivery milestones

Skills Required:
- Thorough understanding of Control System design and development using the Mathworks toolchain (Matlab / Simulink / Stateflow) for real time applications
- Experience of control strategy development and delivery through all stages of the engineering development `V' cycle, including understanding of system and software engineering principals
- Understanding of quality and robustness techniques and standards such as FMEA, P-Diagrams, noise factor analysis, and data analysis techniques to support this.

Experience Required:
- Thorough understanding of Control System design and development using the Mathworks toolchain (Matlab / Simulink / Stateflow) for real time applications
- Experience of control strategy development and delivery through all stages of the engineering development `V' cycle, including understanding of system and software engineering principals
- Understanding of quality and robustness techniques and standards such as FMEA, P-Diagrams, noise factor analysis, and data analysis techniques to support this
- Strong organisational, project management and communication skills essential
- Knowledge of MS Office Applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project)
- Degree in Electronics, Software, Automotive / Aerospace engineering or similar subject, or equivalent industry experience

Experience Preferred:
- Prior automotive controls experience such as ADAS, Chassis, Vehicle Dynamics, or Longitudinal Control preferred, though strong candidates with relevant control system experience from other industries such as aerospace will also be considered
- Virtual validation tools and techniques such as desktop Simulation tools (e.g. IPG CarMaker) or HIL environments (e.g. dSpace), and associated plant model development.
- Requirements and change management tools and processes, version control, control strategy documentation.
- Knowledge of software engineering principals such as model based software development, software architecture, dSpace Targetlink, the C programming language, and relevant standards e.g. MISRA advantageous but not essential
- Experience of virtual test, component test and vehicle testing including proving ground environments
- Knowledge of Rapid Control Prototyping tools (e.g. dSpace Autobox or similar)
- Component and system level issue investigations including appropriate problem solving and reporting tools (Six Sigma, 5D, Is / Is Not, Fault Tree etc.)
- Understanding of automotive networking, diagnostics and fault handling techniques, and related system development tools (CANalyzer, ASL, CANape, etc.)
- Experience of safety critical systems and software, including standards such as ISO26262, IEC61508 or similar.
- Experience working with or managing offshore software development teams and / or 3rd party ECU suppliers for software coding and integration tasks
- Full UK driving license

Additional Information : The role is based at Gaydon, but occasional travel to other sites will be required including overseas.

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

Our Midlands based client who is a leading provider of enterprise-class engineering software is looking for an experienced Strategic Account Manager to support and develop existing and new business streams within the UK.

Position Description:
Significant growth has led to the requirement of a Strategic Account Manager to manage and grow some of the UK’s leading brands. Our client is looking for dedicated, passionate relationship builders who can manage existing business and develop new streams of business from their customers. You will be able to deal with all levels of customers, from Chief Executive to Engineer and be able to develop strong relationships as a result. You will be dynamic and hard-working with a will to win.

This is the perfect role for an ambitious sales professional, with a successful track record and looking to make the next leap in their sales career by joining the fastest growing and most exciting technology company.

The unique simulation-driven approach to innovation is powered by our integrated suite of software which optimizes design performance across multiple disciplines encompassing structures, motion, fluids, thermal management, electromagnetics, system modelling and embedded systems, while also providing data analytics and true-to-life visualization and rendering. The opportunity to grow existing accounts by leveraging the client's technology portfolio is significant.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform sales activities for an assigned group of major accounts to achieve or exceed assigned revenue objectives. High expectations of customer engagement, collaboration, executive sponsorship and growth.
- Position requires a seasoned sales professional with a minimum of 8-years sales success within the digital design sector.
- The successful candidate must understand the customer environment, customer/ecosystem, customers business priorities, customers business challenges to align a client based solution (products and services) that generates a measurable and impactful business outcome for the customer.
- Meeting requirements for client engagement, CRM data entry and quality, activity reporting. Collaborates globally with account teams, product specialists, other functions within the business, remote (direct/indirect) sites, and business partners to ensure a synergistic, companywide approach to the account.
- The successful candidate must gain executive level sponsorship, purchase commitment and manage the ongoing business relationship with the customer.
- Develop and maintain account plans with a key focus to formulate strategies for building and growing the named strategic accounts, identifying new ways to engage with the client and proposing innovative solutions, creates roadmap to drive significant penetration across all applicable business solutions, with a view to maximise their potential value to the business.
- Remains knowledgeable and keeps abreast of the client's new and existing products/services. Working as part of a wider team, supporting group initiatives and strategic plans.
- Proper use of our selected CRM/Sales tools and applications to maintain sales records, activity and accurate sales forecasting. Completes forms, tasks and sales reports as required by management.
- Consistent and effective internal/external communication. Keeps customers updated on company direction and product development. Relays customer feedback to the company for marketing and product enhancement consideration.
- Successful candidates will be motivated and driven by personal and company sales achievement, earnings potential and customer satisfaction.

Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or bachelor’s degree with technical sales experience.
- Minimum 8 years sales experience, with preferably but at least 2 years as a senior/key/named account manager, with a proven track record of success.
- Demonstrated basic understanding of PLM or engineering simulation space.
- Excellent communication (including at executive level), organisational skills and the ability to work collaboratively across globally diverse accounts.

Cores Values:
The business, with their individual passions, talents and experience, collectively fuel the development of internal technologies and their unwavering commitment to support end clients in making the great even greater and innovating to succeed tomorrow.

The business prides itself on its culture that enables open, creative thinking, deeply valuing employees and their individual contributions towards end clients' success as well as their own each and every day.

Package:
- Competitive salary on offer (flexible dependent on experience of candidate).
- Neg. OTEs as a significant proportion of total package.
- Car Allowance/Company Car.
- Competitive benefits package post-probationary period including but not limited to:
* Comprehensive pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution – 10%.
* Monthly gym membership
* Health Insurance
* Optical/Dental Cashplan
* Life Insurance at 3x salary benefit
* Competitive Christmas Bonus (discretionary dependent on company profit and performance)
* Income protection and comprehensive sick pay cover/enhanced statutory schemes
* Training and development opportunities

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

Customer Ref: 36273

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

Division:
Body Engineering

Position Description:
The successful candidate will join a team responsible for the design, development and engineering delivery to production for an active roll control system for the client's suspension system team. The candidate will:

- Design and develop specific components of the system through close working relationships with interfacing teams (e.g. Chassis, vehicle dynamics, manufacturing, service)
- Complete the required design validation - CAE, rig and whether necessary vehicle sign off.
- Develop test specifications from first principles to support validation
- Prepare engineering content (designs, specifications, statement of work) to purchase to enable supplier sourcing
- Liaise with suppliers to deliver programme content.

Skills Required:
- Demonstrate strong work ethic with the ability to deliver high quality technical solutions.
- Proven ability to deliver a number of projects against a fixed time frame whilst also delivering to quality and cost.
- Excellent communications skills, self motivated with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

Experience Required:
- Degree educated (Mechanical, electrical, mechatronics)
- Minimum 4 years experience in an engineering role

Experience Preferred:
- Catia
- MathWorks toolset
- Chassis systems
- Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE)

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

Customer Ref: 36271

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

Division:
Chassis Engineering

Position Description:
Programme Leader support role within Chassis Programmes Team .

As a Project engineer you'll be responsible for alignment of technical assumptions & costs with vehicle targets for future vehicle programmes to enable the successful delivery to project milestones. You will also be responsible for the coordination of activities required to support build phases and Programme Milestones.

Must work collaboratively with CoC Module leaders & Cross functional teams to ensure adherence to programme delivery gateways.

Skills Required:
- High levels of personal organisation and motivation are essential.
- Frequent exposure in wider Programme forums can be expected.
- Excellent communication and presentation, and data analysis skills are essential
- Team leading capability is also required. It will be a requirement to act as a conscience to the Team and the delivery process.

Experience Required:
- Project management skills - alignment & control of costs and technical assumptions.
- Must be IT literate.
- Good communication, presentation and interpersonal skills required
- Highly motivated self starter and good team player.
- Understanding of vehicle architecture desirable, particularly chassis components.
- Experience of negotiation, balancing customer needs / specifications and cost targets.

Experience Preferred:
- Degree Preferred
- High drive, self-motivated and able to work and deliver with minimum supervision.
Knowledge of Ford/JLR systems may be advantageous but is not essential. Training will be provided.

Additional Information:
- Main location is Gaydon. Support may be required at Oxford Road (Prototype Build) and Castle Bromwich / Solihull (Production Build).

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