Customer Ref: 35632

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

Division:
Research and Devlopment

Position Description:
- Delivery of Materials technology research projects to ensure robust processes are achieved on time and to Engineering Specification.
- Develop implementation/activity plans for all Materials research technologies to ensure robust processes are achieved on time and to Engineering Specification.
- Work with cross functional and operational teams to ensure objectives and activity plans are captured in the overall project plans.
- Contribute to the resolution of key technical and strategic challenges.
- Develop early demonstrations prior to final Proof-of-Concept stage.
- Assist in the development of Proof-of-Concept technologies with support from key suppliers.
- Provide assistance and support in recording all data to ensure adherence to relevant procedures.
- Co-ordinate projects towards the development of required technologies and features via the Technology Creation Development System process.
- Provide technical support on projects when handing over to mainstream engineering.

Skills Required:
- Educated to Materials Engineering Degree or similar level
- Multiple stakeholder project management experenience - ideally with design.
- Knoweledge/experience of Automotive/Aerospace/Marine production processes from raw material to component

Experience Required:
- Previous experience in a Research, development or design role in engineering or automotive environment.
- Strong technical and development expertise.
- Ability to resolve key technical issues within a team environment.
- Ability to write reports and the ability to communicate to technical and non-technical audience.
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience.
- Strong research and analytical skills.
- Experience of program or project management, meeting demanding timescales with budget control and cost effective delivery.
- Computer literacy in Google, PowerPoint, Excel and Microsoft Project.

Education Required:
- Experience of Technology Creation Development System or equivalent research delivery process.
- Previous experience of working with Universities and Research partners.
- Ability to interpret conceptual Design briefs and apply an engineering approach to evaluating feasibility.
- Good level of knowledge of vehicle technology and A-Surface components
- Appreciation for sustainability challenges and how innovations across the materials supply chain are resolving these.
- Knowledge and experience in the textiles, natural materials and polymers industry.
- Experience either within the client or at a supplier, of delivering body engineering based automotive components.
- Understanding of how new ideas could be delivered internally into proof of concept properties.

Additional Information :
Driving Licence essential - requirement to travel across multiple sites in west midlands to interface with client design teams in Whitley and Gaydon.

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

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

Role context and purpose:
As a Senior Design Engineer for Genuine Motorcycle Accessories (GMA) your role will involve working with cross-functional teams in Industrial Design and Product Development. At the outset you will be exposed to the design of retail customer facing products at various points in their product life cycle.

Key responsibilities:
- Design systems and components for new and updated chassis projects, considering function,
cost, manufacture, assembly and quality
- Produce good quality 3D CAD models using Creo (prior Creo experience preferred but not essential)
- 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 outside suppliers
- Design components and systems to comply with regulatory requirements where needed
- Have a good understanding of the application of some regulatory requirements for motorcycles
- Manage their own time and workload effectively
- Create and manage timing plans for their areas of responsibility
- Manage any CAD Designers or contractors allocated to help with creating CAD models
- Provide engineering guidance to other team members
- Represent the design team in interdepartmental meetings in the absence of the team leader

Experience Required:
- Should be able to demonstrate good time management and excellent knowledge of
engineering fundamentals
- Good understanding of the design requirements for mass production manufacturing
- Good technical comprehension of at least some areas of chassis layout, design & development
- Past experience in analysis and optimisation of components and subassemblies prefered
- Educational qualifications: Qualified to degree level or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline. Minimum
of 2:1 required.
Proficient in 3D CAD, preferably Creo
- Past experience in engineering design of components and subassemblies
- Good knowledge of manufacturing processes
- Experience of creating and releasing 2D technical drawings
- Understanding of geometric tolerances on 2D drawings
- Good understanding of motorcycle chassis layout and construction
- Practical experience of vehicle maintenance and preparation is advantageous
- Some experience in designing to Regulatory requirements as applied to motorcycles
- Experience in Trim and Structural design preferred

Additional Information:
Our client's GMA team is a dedicated one with 35 people split between the UK & overseas and it sits within the
GCO (Global Commercial Organisation) but also links into the GTO (Global Technical Organisation)
in terms of procedures and operating systems. The Senior Design Engineer is a key role for the business
which ultimately allows the enablement of delivery of new products to market. The GMA Product
catalog will consist of 200+ ‘live’ products in 2018-19 and will expand further beyond that in 2019-20.

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

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

Role context and purpose:
As a Design Engineer (Genuine Motorcycle Accessories) your role will involve working with cross-functional teams in Industrial Design and Product Development. At the outset you will be exposed to the design of retail customer facing products at various points in their product life cycle.

Key responsibilities:
- Design systems and components for new and updated chassis projects, considering function,
cost, manufacture, assembly and quality
- Produce good quality 3D CAD models using Creo (prior Creo experience preferred but not essential)
- Produce good quality 2D engineering drawings
- Follow and help maintain design, operational and quality procedures
- Produce supporting documentation for designs, as required
- Design components and systems to comply with regulatory requirements & internal test
procedures where needed
- Liaise with internal departments such as, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Quality and Assembly.
- Liaise with outside suppliers
- Manage their own time and workload effectively
- Create and manage timing plans for their areas of responsibility
- To work with CAD Designers or contractors allocated to help with creating CAD models
- Support testing department with the fixturing & testing of components & motorcycles

Experience Required:
- Should be able to demonstrate good time management and comprehensive knowledge of
engineering fundamentals
- Understanding of the design requirements for mass production manufacturing preferred
- Basic understanding of motorcycle layout and construction is advantageous
- Practical experience of vehicle maintenance and preparation an advantage
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes preferred
- Educational qualifications : Qualified to degree level or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline. Minimum
of 2:1 required.
- Able to operate 3D CAD, preferably Creo
- experience in engineering design would be advantageous
- experience in Trim and Structural design preferred

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

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

Role context and purpose:
Update and create latest CAD models to reflect manufactured physical motorcycle products using ProE Wildfire / Creo with minimal supervision.

Key responsibilities will include, but not limited to:
- Producing high quality 3D CAD models using Pro-Engineer from scratch.
- Creation of high quality 3D CAD models taking physical measurements from manufactured components.
- Packaging of CAD models.
- Managing own time and workload effectively.
- Kinematics

Experience Required:
● Applicant should be qualified to degree level or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline.
● Proficient in 3D CAD - ProE Wildfire / Creo.
● Significant experience in engineering design and in particular, concept generation and packaging, ideally within the motorcycle/powersports/automotive industry.
● Will be able to demonstrate good time management.
● Will be able to demonstrate excellent understanding of engineering fundamentals

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

Customer Ref: 35403

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

Division:
Body Engineering

Position Description:
- Development of cockpit performance for new products using CAE to meet defined performance targets, support design confirmation, support physical test definition and achieve test-to-CAE correlation.
- Operating in a small team, including some level of planning and controlling delivery of work.
- Work effectively with design teams to develop solutions within defined deadlines and time constraints.
- Have an awareness of potential design constraints (packaging, manufacturing etc.) and ensure due consideration is given in developing solutions.

Skills Required:
3 Key Skills:
1) Ability to carry out automotive component performance development using CAE codes - LS-Dyna explicit is essential. Additional knowledge of LS-Dyna implicit and Optistruct/Nastran is desirable) and associated pre and post processing software (Oasys suite preferred) to meet defined performance targets and support design confirmation, conduct test support and test-to-CAE correlation
2) Able to run baseline CAE analysis, summarise results and feedback conclusions to the component Lead Engineers in an efficient manner.
3) Able to interpret component requirements, understand design solutions/constraints and define/assess proposals to meet requirements based on sound engineering principles.

Experience Required:
- Demonstration of the knowledge and skills required.
- Experience of working in the automotive industry preferably with experience of working with Cockpits and plastics.
- Very competent in automotive component development using engineering experience and CAE tools.
- Requires supervision and/or assistance only where the issues or situation faced is highly complex and/or business critical.
- Experience in other fields of development using LS-DYNA may be acceptable if combined with appropriate software skills.
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline.

Experience Preferred:
- Ability to use ANSA pre-processing tools, Experience of working with ANSA DM Database management.
- Knowledge and experience of LS-OPT or similar software to develop solutions and optimise designs.
- Knowledge and experience of NVH software (Nastran, Optistruct)
- Geometry creation in Catia.
- Excel macro programming.
- Familiarity and experience of working practices relating to CAE methods and processes.
- Familiarity and experience of CAD systems to enable efficient data download
- Familiarity of IT system

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