Customer Ref: 36236256

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

Agile Project Manager - Automotive - £35.50/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 8 months (potential for yearly renewal)

Key Responsibilities:
- Define and communicate timing requirements to the HMI HF Team and other stakeholders.
- Collaborate with delivery and integration departments across business to align departmental planning with programme needs.
- Use JIRA and Confluence to plan, track, and communicate project progress and updates.
- Develop and adjust departmental work plans based on programme timing and late-stage changes.
- Provide regular updates on progress, risks, and changes to internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure the team has the necessary resources and information to execute plans effectively.
- Coordinate with HMI teams across AAD, China, and Portland to align with spec releases and share planning insights.
- Track and report on project status, identifying and resolving obstacles to timely delivery.
- Lead large projects or processes with minimal oversight, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

Required Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience working within Agile frameworks and methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to plan for sizable teams in complex organisational structures.
- Background in delivering technical products collaboratively.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and communicate across all levels.
- Operate with precision and professionalism in high-pressure, fast-moving environments.
- Proficiency in Agile planning tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement abilities
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Project Management, or related field
- Experience working in an automotive environment

Desired Skills & Experience
- Develop and maintain Agile project plans, sprint schedules, and release roadmaps
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and cross-functional teams to define scope and priorities
- Facilitate backlog grooming, sprint planning, and capacity forecasting
- Monitor progress using Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) and adjust plans as needed
- Identify and mitigate risks that could impact delivery timelines
- Provide regular updates to stakeholders on project status, velocity, and resource utilization
- Support continuous improvement by analysing metrics and recommending process enhancements

Required Skills & Qualifications
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies
- Proficiency in Agile planning tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement abilities
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Project Management, or related field

Preferred Qualifications
- Agile certifications
- Experience in Agile transformation or coaching
- Familiarity with Lean principles and DevOps practices

Soft Skills
- Adaptability in fast-paced environments
- Collaborative and team-oriented mindset
- Problem-solving and critical thinking
- Ability to balance strategic vision with tactical execution

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: 36380148

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

SVO Launch Engineer - £34/hr (Inside IR35) – Ryton, Coventry – 12 Months (potential for renewal)

Duties:
- Ensure all given programmes are delivered to agreed timing plan.
- Drive resolution of issues through AIMS (internal issue management system)
- Ensure all scorecard items are completed to achieve an on time and on quality launch.
- Ensure all build issues are contained or resolved within 24 hours.
- Lead various Agile meetings such as Stand Up, Group Sync and Sprint Planning.
- Work with cross-functional teams to identify the route cause to complex issues and define solutions using robust problem-solving techniques.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement via Lessons Learnt and the use of best practice.
- Co-ordinate launch activities such as the launch checklists, scorecards and gateways.
- Working with the cross functional SVO team and wider automotive business to ensure all gateways are passed robustly on time.
- Manage vehicle movements and storage for embargoed vehicles.


Skills:
- Prior automotive launch experience.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities. Methodical but dynamic approach to solving complex problems.
- A good communicator with the ability to assimilate data from multiple areas to reach a conclusion.
- Good knowledge of vehicle manufacturing process and procedures.
- Results driven with a passion for continuous improvement, & ability to meet and plan to tight deadlines robustly and honestly.
- An individual with the ability to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style.
- Prior automotive launch experience.

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: 36349383

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

Data Analytics - Software and Systems testing - £34.55/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (Hybrid potential) - 7 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Duties:
This role is focused on ensuring the integrity, consistency, and usability of software and systems testing data across all domains created in JIRA and generally visualised in Tableau. This role bridges the gap between engineering, testing, and development teams by analysing the complex datasets, resolving tooling issues, and preparing high-quality data for decision-making and reporting.

- Identify patterns, anomalies, and insights to support engineering and quality teams.

Skills:
- Ability to support project planning with data-driven insights.
- Ability to create transparent weekly Top-Management Reporting
- Ability to interact with key engineering stakeholders to ensure metrics are aligned and correct
- Ability to interpret the data to determine the key messages that should be shared.
- Ability to ensure data integrity is maintained, by monitoring tickets for common errors
- Ability to coaching other uses of the tooling on data consistency and cleanliness

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: 36372280

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

Lead Graphic Designer – Materiality - £51.20/hr (Inside IR35) – Warwickshire (hybrid potential) – 7 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

- Weekly design reviews for project progress assessments with creative teams, line manager, senior manager and / or director(s).
- Weekly 1:1s with manager to run through task list and assess tasks completed.
- High contribution to meetings through suggestions, problem solving and design representation.
- Excellent creative and presentation skills (including but not limited to Photoshop, illustrator and vred) to support visual design communication internal (c&m strategies) and external (launch, retails, customer facing)
- Design creation of product family graphic strategies to successfully deliver into production vehicles.
- High degree of competitors awareness and understanding of product and automotive design combined with good aesthetic judgement
- Ability to do trend research and find adequate imagery for individual projects
- Ability to visually communicate complex strategies in digestible and aesthetic presentation


Key accountabilities & responsibilities
Client designs and editions
- Create highly creative and unique personalisation artworks to a brief or theme in 2d, to be interpreted in vehicle in 2d and 3d.
- Engage and communicate with clients to understand client briefs in full, for graphic interpretation and creation.
- Interpret already defined client designs for feasible manufacture in various technologies e.g. Embroidery.
- Understand and interpret a vehicle project or other graphic design project, from conception, to develop a vehicle theme for graphic creation.
- Create artwork templates to define release files to suppliers for part manufacture.
- Liaise closely with sv bespoke materiality designers to execute project design releases timely and in line with project render packs and sampling.
- Engage with personalisation engineers, design quality team and suppliers to sample and improve 2d artworks where necessary, to better physical execution of personalisation items in 3d/ physical. Multiple releases are sometimes required, for improvements, due to development process.
- Work with the creative digital team to visualise artworks in vehicle, in digital/ virtual 3d.
- Organise and archive artworks in line with gdpr.
- Program graphic design and strategy
- Lead and become a key contributor to the sv bespoke materiality graphic strategy.
- From individual vehicles to strategic graphical strategies, this includes graphic creation for perforation, embroidery, speaker details, finishers and materiality led branding - from exterior to seat labels.
- Create or further develop a graphic style/ language for sv bespoke materiality presentation material. Templates to be created for both digital and physical presentations.
- Creation of visual assets that communicate strategies, from icons to info graphics.
- Support high profile launch planning projects that require senior level visual communication presentations.
- Graphic development plays a big part in creating the best possible relationship between materials and form. Prepare supplier direction and briefs, support team members to do so.
- Visual communication
- Be a key point of contact for collaborators outside of the materiality organisation, for example brand design and digital design. Continue to grow these cross-discipline relationships. Be the benchmark for briefing material.
- Collaborate on creating a visual language for spaces – when required.
- Communication tools - take away's and handouts. Develop a library of reference for the team - for digital and physical use.
- Develop and simplify key materiality messages, creating exciting and impactful visual communication.

General
- Share best practice with the team and offer direction as appropriate, delegating for the manager as and when required.
- Act as a source of expertise to others and contribute to discussions in own area.
- Mentor and coach others in graphic design process and methods
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested

Essential
- Advanced skill in adobe illustrator.
- High level of creativity and flair.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to relate to and communicate at all levels.
- Capable of working autonomously to meet objectives.
- Passion for graphic design as evidenced by up to date in program/ skill set, innovations and trends.
- Proven ability to plan and undertake projects to a strict deadline.
- Ability to move between projects swiftly with a productive mindset.

In order to be considered for this position it is advantageous to hold a formal qualification such as degree qualified or equivalent experience preferred; proven creative and presentation skills, including advanced use of adobe package software: illustrator, Photoshop, indesign software and ability to use internet resources appropriately for research purposes; a good understanding of product /interior/ exterior design, the design industry in general and automotive design combined with good aesthetic judgement.

Desirable:
- Proven ability to adjust to changing strategies and reflect in the relevant communication media.
- Additional software skills like vred.
- Additional video editing software skills such as final cut pro or adobe after effects.
- Motion graphics experience would be very relevant to build on in this role.
- Design product knowledge, in automotive or another creative field

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: 36353373

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

Test Planner - Prototype Vehicles - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire - 7 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Supporting the creation and optimisation of Test and Development plans for vehicle and rigs, ensuring all stakeholder requirements are met and meets budget
- Defining the spec of prototype vehicles required to meet the needs of the test teams
- Oversee vehicle builds and manage Test and Development Plans
- Create and implement prototype camouflage strategies
- Maintain fleet of prototype vehicles and keep up to date with reworks, hardware updates and software updates
- Manage closure of prototype fleets by re-selling, recycling and re-using prototype assets for future programmes

Skills:
Ability to work independently and proactively, taking full ownership and responsibility for own work; fully invested in achieving a successful result.
- You view things as a team rather than individual project level, considering the wider team needs.
- Strong interpersonal/communication skills, including ability to manage/lead/support stakeholder relationships and communicate effectively at all levels.

Key Skills:
- A planning mindset, including understanding of the principles of test plan creation
- Knowledge of vehicle systems and its interactions
- Excellent organisational skills with verbal and written communications skills is paramount
- Excellent ability to work with various departments with good interpersonal skills to build relationships with stakeholders
- Strong Engineering skill set through the full product cycle from concept to launch
- Ability to understand and present technical data to Management
- Proven influencing, facilitation and negotiation skills
- Ability to challenge status quo and provide win-win solutions

Experience :
- Previous project planning delivery experience within New Product Introduction.
- Solid experience of cross functional working across multi-disciplined teams to lead problem resolution
- An understanding of test methodology in mechanical and/or electrical disciplines
- Experience of working in the Automotive or other relevant Engineering industry
- Reporting and presenting technical data to Stakeholders at all levels

Education:
Relevant degree or equivalent experience or relevant apprenticeship or equivalent experience preferred.
- Previous experience and background in programme planning and/or vehicle testing accompanied with aproven track record of successful delivery of programme delivery
- Primavera P6 planning tool knowledge will be desirable

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.