Lead Engineer – Seat Belts and Safety Components

Lead Engineer – Seat Belts and Safety Components

Location: Gaydon, UK

Duration: 12 months fixed term employment

Salary: GBP45k/year

Hybrid work model: Min. 4 days/week from client location

No of positions: 2

The Opportunity

Lead Engineers operate in a cross‑functional organisation, anchored to their home Chapter. The role reports to the relevant Chapter Lead and, where delivering on specific vehicle programmes, it has a matrix report into the programme Technical Centre Lead. Alongside the Chapter Lead and fellow Lead Engineers, you will take responsibility to ensure the quality and robust delivery of products and processes by the Safety Components Chapter. With a focus on benefit to the customer, you will use your knowledge, expertise, and experience to influence on‑cycle and off‑cycle product delivery, working with Project Engineers, suppliers, and interfacing stakeholders.

Key Performance Indicators

• Lead the delivery of the agreed Product Increment
• Work with a multi‑discipline team to deliver required customer value, meeting agreed quality, cost, time, weight, and sustainability targets.
• Lead product status reporting using the appropriate client s tools and processes

Key Accountabilities And Responsibilities

• Work On‑Cycle to ensure robust deployment of agreed strategies and technologies.
• Work Off‑Cycle to develop the right strategies, technologies, and Body of Knowledge artefacts to enable the on‑cycle product vision.
• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with all stakeholders.
• Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested from time to time.
• Own and deliver the commodity plan, meeting quality, cost, and time targets.
• Own and deliver the Engineering Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) deliverables
• Manage change requests and develop solutions that achieve attribute and programme targets.
• Manage component and sub‑system test plans and support test teams with problem resolution.
• Ensure all appropriate standards and applicable regulations are met through‑out design maturation.

Key Interactions

• Safety Components Chapter colleagues
• Colleagues from interfacing Chapters (e.g. Programme, Procurement, STA, BIW, Cabin, Seating)
• Suppliers (e.g. commodity suppliers, test facilities)
• Vehicle attribute teams (e.g. Vehicle Safety, Perceived Quality, Human Factors)
• Manufacturing (e.g. Tier 1 suppliers, Trim & Final product coaches, Material Planning & Logistics)

Essential: Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Hard Skills

• Previous experience of managing change and leading the resolution of business, technical and process issues within an engineering project team environment.
• Experience in end‑to‑end development of commodities in an automotive programme
• Engineering related Degree or relevant equivalent experience.
• Working knowledge of safety system development including airbag and/or seat belt dynamic performance, manufacturing processes, related standards and test procedures and vehicle safety attribute delivery, including testing.

Soft Skills

• Ability to work independently and proactively, taking full ownership and responsibility for own work
• You see things at a team rather than individual level, considering the wider Chapter needs.
• Strong people skills, including ability to communicate effectively and influence at all levels.

Desirable: Hard Skills

• Previous experience of managing commodity suppliers and / or external agencies.
• Knowledge of vehicle level safety requirements.
• Previous experience in Safety Components, Restraint Electronics or Vehicle Safety roles.

Personal Profile

Essential

• You understand what our customers love and you are enthusiastic about all things that impact our customers, building trust and loyalty.
• You advocate unity, embrace differences, and actively empower, support, and develop team members.
• You operate with integrity & empathy, ensuring the best customer experience more than anything else, even when challenged.
• You seek growth opportunities using failure as an opportunity to learn, showing resilience and enthusiasm to respond constructively to innovative ideas and inputs.
• You understand your impact, can work independently, is motivated by results, demonstrates tenacity, drive, and perseverance with the ability to deliver solutions in a complex, demanding environment.
• An individual with the capability to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with medium term planning.
• Able to communicate complex concepts to colleagues at all levels.
• You have a passion for the automotive industry and the potential of automotive technology
• Comfortable challenging across functions and at a variety of levels within the business
• You make a difference through results, innovating and never losing sight of what we want to achieve.

Desirable

• You understand the importance of processes and engage them to progress development.
• When you see an opportunity to improve things you work hard to deliver positive change.
• Able to deliver quality and consistency in a complex, highly demanding environment, balancing a range of expectations on what customer‑focussed solutions might look like.

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