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

Role context and purpose:
Our Motorcycle client is looking for a talented Engineer to join their Chassis team based at their state of the art UK Technology Centre. The role forms part of the wider Chassis team, taking the lead on specific projects and components, helping to shape the future of the product portfolio. The ideal candidate will have experience in defining major components, assemblies and systems from concept to production, ensuring fulfilment 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:
Your key responsibilities will include, but not limited to:
- 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 design and development procedures.

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 / Creo.

Experience Level:
- 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.

Attributes:
- 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 preferred

Success Metrics for the Role:
You will be measured on OTIF delivery on various goals and performance indicators. These will depend on the focus area for the year. Overall success of your role will depend on the following measures but not limited to project relationships and gateway deliverables.

Key Attributes:
- Demonstrates good time management and excellent knowledge of engineering fundamentals.
- Strong technical leadership and coaching skills.
- Ability to manage the technical requirements of multiple chassis systems simultaneously.

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

Customer Ref: 36604

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

Division:
Chassis Engineering

Position Description:
Senior Software Engineer.

Leading the Client's push into internal software development capability with respect to the Chassis Attributes team (Vehicle Dynamics and Off Road Capability), we are looking for a highly motivated software engineer to join the Digital Engineering team.

Software development using MATLAB is a key component of their capability improvement framework. Software tool deployment is absolutely integral to the Chassis Attributes team. The Digital Engineering Team provide solutions to understand, process and visualise complex simulation and vehicle data.

The role will enable the Client to increase efficiency and robustness. This is delivered by having common integrated software tools and a high degree of process automation, tailored to serve the needs of the engineering team within Chassis Attributes. These tools exist to enable robust and rapid engineering decisions when delivering Client products of the future.

The successful candidate will be an AGILE advocate and practitioner and will be responsible for task delivery in a SCRUM team. Ideally they will have experience in a formal programming language, ideally an object oriented language.

Skills Required:
- Experienced programmer (ideally MATLAB). Expertise with Object Oriented Programming languages such as C++ / MATLAB.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Project management capabilities and the ability to multitask.
- AGILE advocate and SCRUM practitioner.

Experience Required:
- Degree (or equivalent qualification) within a relevant discipline, e.g. Software Engineering.
- Previous experience of leading the resolution of business, technical and process issues within a project team environment.

Experience Preferred:
- Basic knowledge of vehicle dynamics fundamentals and suspension components would be desirable.

Additional Information :
This role is INSIDE IR35
Maternity cover - 12 months from 01/04/2020.

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

Customer Ref: 36575

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

Division:
Purchasing

Position Description:
Programme Cost Engineer - maternity cover

The Cost Engineering department is driven to deliver profitable growth to the business by providing robust cost information and expert direction to other operational functions, principally Engineering Finance and Purchasing. The key output of the Department is to provide relevant and robust `Should Cost' estimate analysis, relating to any part or assembly across the client's vehicle range. This crucial information is then used across the complete Product Development cycle, to support activities such as vehicle cost target setting, Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE), optimising Design and Supplier costs.

In the role of a Programme Cost Engineer you will provide support to the Vehicle Programme Team to enable delivery of the Piece Cost & VT cost targets, through
Analysis and comparison with other programmes,
Your extensive experience in overall cost drivers within Piece & VT costs
Organising and executing "ground up" & "back to target" cost workshops
Tapping into the experience within the Cost Engineering delivery team and securing support for your programme where necessary.
Providing clear direction between the Vehicle Programme Team and core Cost Engineering functions (and vis-versa)

Skills Required:
- Excellent Communication skills
- Automotive Engineering/Manufacturing background
- Have a good technical awareness at both the production process and cost driver level
- Project Management experience will also provide an advantage

Experience Preferred:
- Programme experience
- Prior Ford/JLR /Auto OEM / Auto supplier experience

Education Required:
Engineering Degree

Additional Information:
- Although primary location is Gaydon, Warwickshire, the role may require travel between all client sites (Coventry/ Castle Bromwich / Solihull / Halewood/Wolverhampton).
- This role has been deemed to fall INSIDE IR35.

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

Customer Ref: 36551

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

Division:
Special Vehicle Operations

Position Description:
MP&L supply chain & data analyst:
- Interrogate data around both current and aged purchase orders
- Liaise with external suppliers and internal teams (purchasing / accounts / operations) in order to close historic orders
- Matching of invoices to purchase orders and the investigation of discrepancies
- Analyse simple BOMs and the investigation of discrepancies
- Work with the warehouse team to refine pick lists

Skills Required:
3 key skills required
- Able to work on their own initiative, has a tenacious approach to delivery, quality of output and organisation
- Strong communication skills - both written and verbal. Able to communicate at all levels, arrange and chair meetings
- Good analytical skills. A strong academic performance in mathematics and English.

Experience Required:
- Experience within a manufacturing organisation
- Understanding of the procurement process and experience of working with purchase orders
- Demonstrated good communication skills in a previous role
- Advanced IT skills (predominantly Microsoft / google)
- Experience within the automotive industry.

Additional Information:
- Multiple client locations in Coventry, Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire & Solihull.
- This position is deemed to fall inside of IR35

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

Customer Ref: 36320

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

Division:
Manufacturing Engineering

Position Description:
TUCANA VME Engineer

The main role is to develop and generate a Digital Twin model to simulate the physical infrastructure for the Tucana Project.
The TUCANA project is looking at developing high volume low cost composite solutions for both the vehicle design and its manufacture. The project compromises of 7 work packages:
WP0 - Project management,
WP1 - Virtual Manufacturing and Cost Modelling,
WP2 - Vehicle Design,
WP3 - Design and Process Validation,
WP4 - Component Manufacture,
WP5 - Vehicle Build
WP6 - Testing & Validation.

The following roles would work in a work stream that crosses work packages 1, 3 and 5. The ultimate goal of the manufacturing teams activities within TUCANA is to develop a predictive model of the structure and cost of a composite facility, using data from current BoP, proposed BoP and validation testing. The digital model developed in this workstream will allow the user to understand the required plant layout, cost, takt time when integrating composites into current and future facilities.

Skills Required:
3 key skills required

- Catia V5/6 working with teamcentre/dassult enovia
- Delmia/Robcad/Process Simulate and/or other manufacturing simulation packages
with knowledge of discrete event simulation
- Experience with Unity and/or other game engine systems
3D immersive environments (VR/AR visualisations

Experience Required:
- Ability to write clean, elegant and maintainable production-level code
- Deep experience in developing Big Data solutions, using standard proprietary and open source toolkits and libraries
- Understanding of machine learning and AI techniques
- Understanding of methods for real time data integration to virtual models
- Solid experience in CAD modelling using Catia V5/6
- Solid experience in developing manufacturing simulations using Delmia or Robcad
- Solid experience in developing solution using Unity or Unreal engine
- Solid experience in developing cloud solutions using GCP or Azure

Education Required:
Degree level or equivalent

Additional Information:
- As part of a government funded activity the DBC is funded through Tucana. This requires clear tracking of hours in order to audit for govt funding.
Locations include - University of Warwick, Warwickshire & Birmingham sites.
THIS ROLE IS DEEMED INSIDE OF IR35

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