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

Role context and purpose:
Our client is looking for talented Engineers to join their Chassis team based in our client's state of the art Technology Centre. The role forms part of the our client's wider Chassis team, taking the lead on specific projects and components, helping to shape the future product portfolio. We are looking for people with experience of defining major components, assemblies and systems from concept to production, ensuring fulfillment of product attributes and requirements against
targets. Candidates should be able to apply and propagate design and development experience throughout the projects and manage the workload and technical development of a small group of engineers, assisting the Team Leader in effectively managing the team.

Key responsibilities:
● Manage key aspects of new model development such as ABS.
● Ownership and coordination of major vehicle development and testing activities.
● Manage a small team (1-3 people) of Design Engineers.
● Plan and oversee the delivery of many major chassis subassemblies or systems within the requirements of the company’s New Product Introduction (NPI) system.
● Design systems and components for new and updated chassis projects, considering function, cost, manufacture, assembly and quality.
● Produce good quality 3D CAD models using Pro-Engineer.
● Produce good quality 2D engineering drawings.
● Follow and help maintain design, operational and quality procedures.
● Produce supporting documentation for designs, as required.
● Liaise with internal departments such as, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Quality and Assembly.
● Liaise with external international suppliers.
● Manage time and workload effectively.
● Represent the design team or PD department in interdepartmental meetings in the absence of the team leader.
● May manage the delivery of a derivative motorcycle.
● Assist in drafting & updating RE design and development procedures.
● Should be able to demonstrate good time management and excellent knowledge of engineering fundamentals.
● Should be able demonstrate technical leadership and coaching skills.
● Be able to manage the technical requirements of multiple chassis systems simultaneously.

Experience Required:
● Educational qualifications
- Qualified to degree level or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline. Minimum of 2:1 required.
- Proficient in 3D CAD, preferably Pro-engineer.

● Experience
- Extensive experience in engineering design of components and subassemblies, ideally within the motorcycle industry.
- Excellent understanding of design requirements for mass production manufacturing
- Extensive experience of whole product lifecycle, from concept through to production.
- Significant experience of creating and releasing 2D technical drawings.
- Understanding of application of geometric tolerances on 2D drawings.
- Good understanding of motorcycle chassis layout and construction.
- Planning and delivery of small projects including budgeting and resource management.
- Previous experience of managing small teams (1-2 people) and their workloads.
- Experience in designing to Regulatory requirements as applied to motorcycles.
- Practical experience of vehicle maintenance and preparation is advantageous.

This position is being offered as a long term contract OR permanent role.

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Our client who is a UK based engineering Tier 1 consultancy is looking for a Lead Automotive Durability Analyst to support an Automotive development project.

Position Description:
Experienced Lead Durability Engineer/Analyst with strong automotive engineering background is required to support a body development project working on metallic architecture development. Ideally with a degree in Automotive or Mechanical Engineering, you'll have a solid understanding of engineering principles and automotive Durability load cases (static/dynamic and fatigue). The ability to set targets for automotive durability delivery is vital, with the ability to utilise standard industry FE software, Nastran/Optistruct/Abaqus/NCode etc. Candidates should have broad experience with the design and development of automotive architecture including concept generation and case study CAE analysis. Experience of working with lightweight body and chassis structures including castings, pressings and extrusions would be of benefit.

The engineer will have the following skills:
- Lead Engineer experience including target setting for Body and Chassis Durability.
- Automotive engineering background and 5+ years experience running CAE durability analysis;
- Excellent modelling and analysis experience using industry standard software;
- OEM or engineering consulting background;
- Experience of leading a team of CAE Engineers;
- Understanding and appreciation of a variety of manufacturing processes – 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.

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

Additional Information:
Some overseas travel will be required with the role (circa 1 week every few months).

Location:
Multiple locations available South, South East or Midlands based with some international travel.

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Our Automotive Tier 1 client, who is currently engaged in several exciting and innovative automotive projects, now has an excellent opportunity for a talented and experienced CAE crash analyst based at their Midlands engineering centre in Coventry.

Responsibilities:
Your primary responsibility will be to use Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to perform crashworthiness analyses to help guide the design of vehicle architectures in both metallic and composite materials. The role will include the building of full vehicle FE models and subsystems, loadcase derivation, analysis set-up and execution, post-processing of results to generate design recommendations.

You will be expected to liaise with the design, development, project management, commercial, prototype and production manufacturing teams, technical partners and suppliers to ensure the designs meet the requirements for timing, performance, manufacturability and cost.

Additionally, you will support R&D activities and the development of tools and techniques to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the analysis department.

Qualifications and experience:
It is anticipated that you will be an engineer with 5 years experience in automotive crashworthiness using LS-Dyna software. You should have an engineering degree and have demonstrable experience working within a team environment.

A solid understanding of whole vehicle design is essential as well as a sound knowledge of metallic and composites structures, sub-systems and dynamics of vehicles.

In addition, the following attributes would be advantageous;

• Practical knowledge of LS-Dyna software (essential).
• Practical knowledge of pre/post-processing software such as ANSA, HyperMesh, OASYS.
• Knowledge of European and Federal crash and safety legislation and consumer test requirements (essential)
• Experience of analysing test data and correlation to CAE results
• Development of data cards for metal and composite materials
• Hand calculations to support the FE analysis
• Experience of full product life-cycle activities and ability to achieve cost, weight and technical targets within specified timescales
• Clear and effective communication skills with internal and external clients
• Excellent problem solver, capable of thinking “outside the box”
• Quick learner with good time management skills

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Our Automotive client, who is currently engaged in several exciting and innovative automotive projects, now has an excellent opportunity for a talented and experienced engineer based at their vehicle design, development and engineering centre in the Surrey area.

Responsibilities:
Senior engineers within Vehicle Body Systems and Architecture Design are responsible for design and release of Body and Interior components across all projects undertaken by our client. They are expected to provide innovative technical solutions to meet project needs as well as delivering initial vehicle layout including manikin positioning throughout the concept stage, before switching to design and release of tooling, jigs and fixtures and supporting vehicle build.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities within Vehicle Body Systems and Architecture Design:
• Provide high quality and imaginative technical solutions to project requirements, utilising team input when necessary
• Lead other members of the Vehicle Body System and Architecture Design team, prepare 2D concept sections, 3D part models, 3D assembly models and any associated 2D drawings as required
• Provide input data to CAE and support any other Vehicle Engineering activities
• Liaise with styling to support feasible design solutions with regard to manufacturing, assembly and homologation
• Coordinate with Principal Engineers and Project Managers to ensure technical targets, program timings and budgetary requirements are met
• Liaise with the Prototype Workshop to provide feasible design solutions and support workshop activities pre, during and post-vehicle build
• Schedule design activities to meet engineering deliverables that deliver to required specifications within timescales and budgets
• Present concepts and design status to client project teams, client senior management, project suppliers and internally to Company personnel
• Ensure own designs meet all relevant safety and regulatory requirements, and are formally verified to meet these and other specifications
• Contribute to complete and effective engineering plans and schedules, including planning own activities
• Identify and highlight any areas for continuous improvement
• Mentor and support professional development of all colleagues, particularly junior staff.

Qualifications and experience:
 It is anticipated that you will have 5 years relevant automotive experience at an appropriate consultancy or OEM
 You will be educated to a degree level in a mechanical or aeronautical discipline.

The position is being offered on a permanent basis.

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Customer Ref: ETL075(Now ETL068)

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

Location: Warwickshire

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