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

Change Management Lead Automotive - £28/hr (Inside IR35) - Halewood (Liverpool) - 3 Months (potential to extend)

Division:
Vehicle Engineering

Position Description:
The PVT Department is part of the Product Engineering Quality Function, delivering improvements to the current vehicle programs via problem solving, manufacturing plant support & delivery of Engineering Running Change. The successful candidate for this role will lead and deliver Change Management for vehicle platforms manufactured in the Midlands, India and China. This role will require strong working relationships to be developed and maintained with Product Engineering, Manufacturing, MP&L, Finance, Purchasing & Customer Services.

Skills Required:
- Experience of JLR products
- Whole vehicle system and architecture knowledge
- Knowledge of Manufacturing and Supplier Quality operations and processes
- Knowledge of product creation and quality processes
- Experience leading teams
- Project management experience
- PC Literacy
- Ability to build and maintain solid working relationships
- Demonstrate business acumen
- Well organised, methodical, flexible and have the ability to cope with priority actions or process changes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills & the ability to present the PVT core team at senior meetings
- Have the ability to multi-task in pressurised situations
- Drive & motivation to achieve targets with minimal supervisor
- Engineering Change Management
- BOM

Skills Preferred:
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the "Current Car" PACN meeting to accelerate throughput
- Scrutinise business cases and support or challenge decisions to progress
- Guide Engineering functions on the required steps to ensure timely release & implementation of all Engineering change in conjunction with manufacturing, MP&L, Finance & Purchase.
- Lead & manage the "Current Car" Change Management Meeting (CMM) to accelerate throughput
- Manage the icreate engineering change release process.
- Manage the icreate CMM & CEM meetings to accelerate throughput
- Manage the handover of changes from programmes to running change
- Publish Change Management KPI data to measure success & identify opportunities

Experience Required:
- Qualification: Engineering Degree
- Experience of JLR products, methods and operating processes
- Experience of operating in an agile environment.
- Experience of operating Jira.

Experience Preferred:
- Knowledge of PVT operations and processes.
- Working Knowledge of WERS and PACN process,
- Working Knowledge of icreate.
- Working Knowledge of 3Dx Dassault systems

Additional Information:
The 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.