Senior Vehicle Integration Engineer – Accessories

Overview

Our OEM Client based in Gaydon is searching for a Senior Vehicle Integration Engineer – Accessories to join their team, inside IR35. This is a contract position with a proposed end date of 31st March 2027. Umbrella pay rate: £33.64 per hour.

What to Expect

You will be a Vehicle Integration Engineer driving the development of new and existing vehicle architectures, responsible for integrating and leading new technologies within the zone into vehicle architectures. You will drive functional and attribute target delivery, acting as the voice of the customer to lead any arbitration required.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Accountable as the leader and technical arbitrator, integrating and delivering the engineering for the whole vehicle whilst ensuring compatibility with GRID, commodity/system strategies and functional targets.
• Lead group functional integration for the given vehicle, driving out complexity and delivering the most efficient technical solutions.
• Work closely with the 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 & Releasing etc.) with groups & interfacing team leads.
• Oversee alignment on, and subsequent delivery of, minimum viable product into both virtual and physical verification and validation through the life of the programme.
• 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.

Essential Skills, Experience and Knowledge Required

• Automotive technical knowledge and extensive experience in 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 in leading teams of people to solve complex technical issues using a structured approach (e.g. 8D and/or Six Sigma).
• Project management experience of delivery against a complex set of programme technical deliverables.
• Customer‑first mindset, customer‑oriented, delivering personalised, transparent and dependable experiences.
• Progressive thinking, keen interest in new ideas and industry developments.
• Ability to embrace the Agile model and act as a champion of Agile principles in practice.
• Resilient individual with strong influencing and engagement skills, comfortable challenging all stakeholders and building credibility and trust.
• Exceptional capability in leadership and management skills, able to motivate, develop and lead 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 Centre 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.

Additional Information

• 100% onsite.
• Travel across Warwickshire to other sites may be required.

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