Job Title: Vehicle Integration Engineer
Location: Gaydon, Warwickshire
Rate: £33.88ph via an Umbrella Company (Inside IR35) or £25.26ph on a PAYE basis
Employment Type: Contract (31.3.2027)
Hours: Standard 40 Hours Per Week
Reference: J37098094
What to Expect
You’ll be a Vehicle Integration Leader driving the development of new and existing vehicle architectures, responsible for integrating new technologies into vehicle architectures, driving functional and attribute target delivery, and acting as the voice of the customer to lead arbitration.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
- Accountable as the leader and technical arbitrator, integrating and delivering the engineering for the whole vehicle while ensuring compatibility with GRID, commodity/system strategies, and functional targets.
- Lead group functional integration for a given vehicle, driving out complexity and delivering efficient technical solutions.
- Work closely with Vehicle Attribute Robustness team to drive delivery of embedded design quality, service, and manufacturing requirements.
- Drive vehicle technical data progression (CAD, DV, AIMS, Build, Test & Release) with groups and interfacing team leads.
- Oversee alignment on and subsequent delivery of Minimum Viable Product into both virtual and physical verification and validation throughout the program.
- Drive cross-group obstacle resolution, ensuring timely escalation to nameplate and/or Architecture VEM as required.
- Ensure prompt escalation of technical blockers/incompatibilities to Vehicle/Chapter/Enterprise leadership via the obstacle process.
- Support study & Agile spike activities to solve complex engineering problems.
What You’ll Need
Essential:
- Automotive technical knowledge and extensive experience of complex interactions, including technical analysis and decision-making.
- Demonstrated understanding of automotive technology with advanced technical depth into vehicle, system, and component detailed design, development, and delivery; ability to interrogate and ratify incoming technical standards, system, and component assumptions.
- Excellent written and verbal technical communication, influencing and negotiation skills.
- Experience leading teams to solve complex technical issues using a structured approach (e.g., 8D and/or Six Sigma).
- Project Management experience delivering against a complex set of program technical deliverables.
- Customer‑first mindset, approachable and dependable, delivering personalised experiences.
- Progressive thinking, keen interest in new ideas and industry developments.
- Agile model embrace and champion of Agile principles in practice.
- Resilient individual with strong influencing and engagement skills, comfortable challenging stakeholders, building credibility and trust.
- Exceptional leadership and management skills, motivating, developing, and leading cross‑functional and functional teams.
Key Interactions
- PGL (Program Group Lead) for the given zone
- PGL/TGL for interfacing zones
- STGL & VEM
- Engineering Delivery Director
- Technology Center Leads
- Architecture & Vehicle Programme Product Owners (POs)
- Lead Engineers
- Engineering Delivery
- Design
- External supplier/partner specialist technical collaboration as required to develop complex strategic technical proposals.
This position is confirmed inside IR35.
Our clients are unable to provide sponsorship for visas; therefore, only candidates eligible to work in the UK need apply.
No terminology within this advert is intended to unlawfully discriminate on the grounds of age, sex, race, or disability, and we welcome all applications.
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