Responsibilities
Offering expert technical guidance across system / hardware design, component selection, feasibility analysis and resolution of complex engineering issues.
Supporting programme delivery, ensuring supplier milestones and engineering deliverables are met in line with the customer’s internal expectations and gateway process.
Managing supplier technical reviews, design validation activities, and ensuring compliance with relevant standards and customer requirements.
Conducting technical analysis, documentation support, component readiness tracking and risk assessments.
Acting as the primary interface for day‑to‑day delivery support, providing regular status updates, escalation management and coordination between the customer’s engineering sub‑teams.
Ensuring that all activities are carried out in alignment with the customer’s Cockpit Electronics technical roadmap, ensuring consistency of approach and reuse across vehicle programmes.
Key Deliverables
- Technical Assessment Report.
- Component specifications, interface documents, and engineering change documentation.
- Released documentation of MTS, DFMEA, DVP, 2D Drawings, 3D data within SAP, DFM, ECL.
- Support for build phases—prototype, mule and VP builds—ensuring parts, software and configurations are validated and issues tracked (RAT update, phased releases in SAP, PRs as required, BDRs, RRLs).
- Supplier coordination including design reviews, technical sign‑off, 8D problem solving, and validation evidence collection (RFI/RFQ, hardware specifications, software specifications, supplier DFMEA, design reviews, timing plans, 8D reports, QCR, DVP&R, open issue list, boundary diagrams).
- Preparation of engineering documentation—test reports, risk registers, technical summaries and decision‑making packs (decision matrix, DVP&R, ECRs).
- Tracking and reporting of delivery readiness, ensuring alignment with programme milestones and gateway deliverables (BDR, ER/RRL, ROR).
- Conducting technical benchmarking, technology assessments, and recommendations for Cockpit Electronics improvement or harmonisation (benchmarking reports, commodity strategy documentations).
- Supporting cross‑functional integration (UX/UI, systems, software, functional safety, cybersecurity, body electronics, chassis teams) as needed—open issues list and tracking documentation including minutes of meetings.
Requirements
- Engineering degree 2:1 or above.
- Ability to overcome cultural barriers.
- Strong customer, team & supplier management skills.
- Capable of working effectively under pressure and managing time under tight deadlines.
- 5+ years of programme delivery experience in automotive electronics or mechatronics, including delivery across multiple development gateways.
- Capability of end‑to‑end component & commodity software / feature delivery (requirements, supplier coordination, prototype build support, validation tracking, launch readiness).
- Strong issue management skills, including root‑cause analysis with suppliers, risk escalation and driving cross‑functional closure plans.
- Proficient in planning and coordination (BoM management, DFMEA creation/monitoring, DVP status tracking, commodity releases, change management, document control).
- Understanding of interaction between mechanical, electrical, software and validation teams to align timelines.
- Experience working with tier‑1 suppliers across global locations, ensuring technical alignment and traceability, managing design & development from concept to delivery.
- Experience managing offshore/nearshore engineering activities while maintaining consistent communication and quality outputs.
- Strong administrative rigour—meeting notes, actions, technical reporting—aligned to customer templates and compliance expectations.
- Working knowledge of systems (JIRA, TCM, JAMA/DOORS, SAP, Enovia/3DX) and internal processes for gateway readiness and deliverable handover.
- Competent in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio).
Benefits
- Health cash plan, following successful probation.
- 5% employer pension contributions.
- Hybrid working.
- 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays.
- Generous absence cover.
- Cycle 2 Work scheme.
- Octopus EV scheme.
The Company is open to considering alternative engagement arrangements, including a self‑employed basis, subject to mutual agreement.
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