Customer Ref: 36216169

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

Development Engineer - Suspension - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (Hybrid potential) - 8 months (potential for yearly renewal)

Duties:
Apply engineering theories and principles to perform complex work in research and development of suspension engineering systems, including the design, characterization, and iterative refinement of suspension devices. Work within an Agile Squad to develop industrialized products.

Responsibilities typically include:
- Deliver the commodity plan to quality, cost and time, including maintaining the Worldwide Engineering Release System
- Deliver the Engineering Advanced Product Quality Planning deliverables
- Assist in the Management of Change Requests, expenditure forecasting and the relevant supplier teams in support of delivery of the programme milestones
- Work on spring and damper module test plans, including detailed planning of test and development stages through to sign off and support Engineering test teams with rectification of issues
- Assist in the resolution of issues with supplier component engineering and vehicle attribute teams to develop designs that meet targets
- Ensure all appropriate standards are met through-out design maturation
- Meet programme targets for cost and weight
- Legal regulations and Requirements Management & Design Verification documentation
- Keep all Module documentation up to date including meeting records
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested

Skills:
Essential:
- Previous experience of managing resolution of business, technical and process issues within a Project Team environment
- A good working knowledge of product creation & delivery, change control, product definition and change management processes
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with strong influencing and engagement skills

Desirable:
- Previous experience within engineering or programme planning departments
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings and understand GD&T notation
- CAD / CAE design and analysis experience preferably with Dassault toolsets
- Some experience of delivering suspension damper, coil spring and air spring technologies
- Experience of working within agile scrum methodology

Education:
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience preferred.

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: 36113408

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

Diagnostics Technician (x3) Automotive - £23.50/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire - 8 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

A workshop-based role working on current Production and Engineering vehicles with the objective of updating vehicles to the latest Software pack ready for SOTA and Integration testing, fault detection, repair and testing of electrical and mechanical systems and components.

- Diagnostic and repair of mechanical vehicle systems i.e. engine and chassis systems
- Software updates and testing.
- Service, diagnostics & repair operations on current vehicles.
- Provision of technical feedback for fault identification and support of subsystem development.
- Preparation, fitment & removal of test components.
- Assembly / replacement of systems / components.
- Manufacture / modification of electrical harnesses.
- Diagnose / trace faults, rectify and validate issues.
- Use of computer diagnostic equipment
- Read and interpret drawings and liaise with engineering departments.
- Fitment of harnesses and other components.
- Engineer "one off" solutions to overcome issue.

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: 36157101

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

Durability and Robustness PAT Leader - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire - 9 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Duties:
This role will aim to enhance the customer experience through the design, development, measurement and balance of customer attributes for automotive vehicles.

The D&R PAT leader role is to ensure all customer expectations for vehicle Durability and Robustness of client vehicles are met or exceeded. This is achieved through attribute target setting and verification sign-off using both virtual and physical test methods.

Key Performance Indicators
- Ensure all targets cascaded and accepted within all relevant Engineering teams
- Develop integration and Design Verification (DV) plans to ensure accumulating evidence through vehicle programme to ensure delivery of vehicle sign-off on-time to requirements
- Ensure delivery and reporting of results of all test activities to agreed DV plan
- Raise clear and concise technical issue reports within 48 hours of identifications
- Complete all sign-off documentation for agreed gateways

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Support delivery of all attribute requirement targets by gateway
- Support the Programme Attribute Team to ensure all technical issues are identified and resolved
- Detailed strategy and delivery planning for all attribute covering CAR, RLD, rig and driven DV activities with status reporting including road load data, analysis and load cascade
- Working with system and component areas to define and maintain cascaded target requirements in support of overall vehicle level targets
- Work with component engineers and suppliers are required to drive implementation and resolution of all engineering solutions
- Deliver technical recommendations and reports
- Support and maintain the Automated Issues Management System (AIMS) and track these to successful resolution
- Work on tasks to ensure all lessons learnt from the current vehicle are captured and fed back to the Programme Attribute Team and progressed as necessary
- Undertake any other work as directed by their Line Manager in connection with their job as may be requested.

Skills:
Essential:
- Broad knowledge and demonstrable experience of vehicle technologies within the automotive sector
- Understanding of Durability & Strength principles with a knowledge of automotive data collection and analysis
- Knowledge of problem-solving principles
- Understanding of system engineering principles and delivery

Desirable
- Project management of complex engineering test activities
- Microsoft package elements (e.g. PowerPoint and Excel)
- CAD visualisation systems (e.g. VisMockUp)
- Knowledge of whole vehicle engineering and cross-functional experience.

Education:
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred

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: 35945123

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

Senior Engineer - Towing and Carrying - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (Hybrid potential)

Duties:
Working in the growing Towing and Carrying team within the Vehicle Capability and Dependability department, the aim of the senior towing and carrying engineer role is to ensure efficient delivery of automotive products that meet or exceed all customer expectations for Towing and Carrying performance. Following system engineering principles, this is achieved through attribute target setting, requirement decomposition and verification and validation sign off using both virtual and physical test methods. To ensure optimum design and delivery the role will strive to continuously improve processes, methods and solutions.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Ownership, management, validation and development of a number of vehicle level towing and carrying requirements and targets
- Ensure robust SMART requirements and targets are cascaded and accepted within all relevant engineering teams including function groups, system and component teams
- Champion through systems engineering principles the development, integration and design verification (DV) plans to ensure accumulating evidence through vehicle programme to ensure delivery of vehicle sign off on-time to requirements. 
- Ensure clear status for towing attribute across all programme panel charts
- Ensure zero towing issues at programme job 1
- Support the development of towing and carrying features and designs for future vehicle solutions
- Conduct benchmarking studies to determine best practices, industry movements and future trends
- Ensure robust championing and closeout prevent recurrence actions

Skills:
- Prior Automotive experience within a product delivery role
- Experience in towing trailers and using trailer towing hardware
- Knowledge/experience of automotive technologies or systems
- Knowledge/experience of engineering test activities

Desirable Experience and Qualifications:
- Experience in Features development, delivery and validation
- Experience in vehicle level Towing & Carrying development, testing and validation
- Knowledge/Experience of AGILE working principles
- Working knowledge CAD visualisation systems (e.g. 3Dx, TeamCentre etc.)
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred

Education:
- Broad knowledge of vehicle and towing technologies
- Project management of complex automotive engineering test activities
- Understanding of Systems engineering principles and delivery
- Knowledge of whole vehicle engineering and cross functional experience
- Microsoft package elements Power Point and Excel

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: 36753013

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

Duties:
Senior Buyer - Automotive Retail - £38.50/hr - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 6 Months

To join the Global Commercial Services team within Indirect Procurement with our Automotive client as the Senior Buyer for Retail on a 6-month contract covering parental leave. The Buyer will have procurement category responsibility for the look & feel of the Retail environment working closely with the Retail Operations team supporting how customers interact with vehicles in client retailers.

Our client is on an exciting project to deliver modern luxury across our global retailer network as part of a new project. This involves sourcing signage, furniture, lighting, joinery, etc. to support retailer network moving to a new retail corporate identity.

The role is for overall responsibility and leadership for all global and relevant local sourcing including project delivery, benchmarking costs, contract management, supplier relationship management activities and strategic development with a focus on sustainability to support the look and feel of our retail environment.

Skills:
Essential:
- A Buyer with 3 years+ experience of buying goods
- Experience of working with colleagues across the globe with clear communication skills
- Commercial Awareness and Negotiation skills
- Understand category management principles
- Relationship management - internal and external
- Flexibility and agility to be able to adjust to changing business needs

Desirable:
- Previous experience in Retail Procurement
- Project management skillset

Education:
Degree and/or CIPS preferable but not a requirement.

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.
The contract is for 6 months covering parental leave.

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.