Customer Ref: 39620

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

Brakes Refinement Engineer - £25.53/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (10 Months potential to extend)

Division:
Chassis Engineering

Position Description:
The Refinement team define the customer acceptance standards for brakes refinement and deliver the development and sign off of program to confirm that these customer quality targets have been delivered. There is a strong focus on ensuring that the standards satisfy customers in conjunction with developing efficient methods for delivery of programmes including the use of virtual tools and translation of customer requirements into objective measurements.

This role will aim to enhance the customer experience through the design, development, measurement and balance of the brake refinement customer attributes for the client's vehicles.

Skills Required:
- Relevant engineering degree ideally 1st Class MEng
- Able to regularly support testing in the UK and at various European locations for two to three week test blocks generally in Spain, Sweden and Finland
- Full UK Cat B Driving Licence
- Prior automotive brakes experience

Skills Preferred:
- Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Support delivery of all Attribute Requirement targets by Gateway and ensure all technical issues are identified and resolved.
- Support test and development activities as required or specified in the Design Verification Plan DVP, Including, physical virtual testing, measurement and visual assessments as required.
- Work with lead engineer as required to drive implementation and resolution of all engineering solutions
- Deliver technical recommendations and reports
- Support competitor and comparator Attribute benchmarking and futuring.
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested

Key Interactions
- Brakes Refinement Lead Engineer
- Brakes Module Leaders
- Brakes Design Team
- Brakes Performance Team
- Suspension System Architecture Team

Experience Required:
- Knowledge of automotive brake system design
- Previous experience of problem solving tools e.g. Root Cause Analysis, 8 Disciplines of problem solving, Design of Experiments and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis FMEA in Manufacturing
- Previous experience and background in solving complex technical ideas and challenges
- Relevant engineering degree or equivalent experience
- Full UK Cat B Driving Licence

Experience Preferred:
- Ability to identify the specifications that influence Brake attributes including performance and refinement.
- Experience in the field of NVH analysis
- Knowledge of industry standard NVH measurement systems LMS Test.lab, HEAD Artemis, Prosig, etc.
- Microsoft package elements Project, Power Point and Excel
- Knowledge of whole vehicle engineering knowledge and cross functional experience
- Some experience of explicit and/or implicit CAE software and associated pre and post processing packages
- Resilient and enthusiastic, an individual able to deliver results under pressure
- Experience of vehicle test and subjective evaluation

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.

Customer Ref: 39606

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

CFD Engineer Automotive - £33/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (Hybrid potential) - 10 Months (potential to extend)

Division:
Vehicle Engineering

Position Description:
Aerodynamics Engineer to undertake Pre-KO and Pre-PS aerodynamic simulations (3D CFD) to support Design and Engineering deliver target compatible vehicle concepts for subsequent programme delivery.

Skills Required:
- Strong CFD background ideally using StarCCM+.
- Excellent fluid knowledge and understanding of vehicle flow structures.
- Strong communication and analytical skills.

Experience Required:
- Degree level in an Engineering discipline such as Aeronuatics.
- Experience of vehicle aerodynamics and the passenger vehicle development process with a track record of building complex CFD models for Aerodynamic analysis.

Experience Preferred:
- Aerodynamics coupled with Thermal analyses.
- Passenger vehicle wind tunnel testing.
- Aeroacoustics and Water & Dirt Management.

Additional Information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Insdide IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Customer Ref: 39586

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

Weights Integration Engineer - £31/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire/Hybrid - 10 Months (potential to roll)

Division:
Product Engineering

Position Description:
- Project management of Vehicle Weight targets and deliverables, including benchmarking for future target setting and balancing
- Cascade and track vehicle weight requirements to System level and monitoring of status by interacting with System engineers
- Co-ordinate and chair Design Efficiency Reviews, using company and competitor data, to assist engineers in vehicle light-weighting
- Status reporting and issue resolution up to management level
- Responsible for Coordination of Generation and maintenance of Vehicle Mass Properties models where required
- Conduct validation of components and vehicles
- Support Vehicle Mass Certification activity ahead of vehicle Launch as required by vehicle programme

Skills Required:
- Strong leadership and project management skills with ability to prioritise own and others time and work load
- Mass Properties knowledge
- Good presentation and communication skills and can deliver under pressure with challenging deadlines
- Prior automotive engineering experience
- Whole vehicle engineering knowledge & cross functional experience.

Experience Required:
- Experience of vehicle engineering, in particular the control of weight and targets management.

Experience Preferred:
- Self-motivated, uses initiative and problem solver focussed on delivering results.
- Able to deliver quality and consistency in a complex, highly demanding environment.

Additional Information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35
Hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days on-site (Thursdays mandatory). On-site flexibility as required. Support required at other client manufacturing sites on occasion.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Customer Ref: 39599

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

Senior Engineer - SIMPACK / CarMaker - £33/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire / Hybrid - 10 months (potential to extend)

Division:
Engineering Operations

Position Description:
The Model Delivery team within Digital Engineering is responsible for providing SIMPACK and CarMaker Master Models to the business to support virtual engineering of all vehicle programmes. This includes the collation of data to parameterise full vehicle models for performance assessment, design development and calibration providing the business with a single source of consistent models. The successful candidate will be responsible for following a semi automated process to enter collated consistent data from key supporting departments into model templates, to deliver Quality Assured models at key vehicle programme milestones. They will run QA processes and debug and fix any quality issues. They will also be responsible for identifying opportunities to improve the quality and efficiency of the build and QA processes to support the ever growing number of vehicle programmes and variants for which models are required. You will work closely with a team of software development engineering to ensure that robust, quality assured tools are delivered to the engineering community are delivered in a responsive manner.

Skills Required:
- The candidate should be highly driven, self-motivated and able to deliver with minimum supervision
- Analytical and problem-solving skills in approaching technical issue resolution
- Effective team player with strong interpersonal skills
- Prior automotive industry experience
- Experience of SIMPACK or similar Multi-Body system

Experience Required:
Degree Qualified

Experience Preferred:
- Knowledge of the IPG CarMaker simulation software
- Experience using Matlab / Simulink simulation tools
- Experience of maintaining traceability and structure in information in a variety of forms
- Good problem solving skills

Additional Information:
This role is on a contract basis and in Inside IR35. Hybrid working available.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Customer Ref: 39593

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

Human Behaviour Researcher - £32.50/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential)

Division:
Product Engineering

Position Description:
This role exists to investigate user behaviour with early stage concept interface design to validate that they are ready to move to the production phase for future automotive products.
This involves:
- understanding test protocols and methods for the automotive environment, including naturalistic and virtual test environments.
- Planning testing campaigns to validate performance against known targets including maintaining robust testing equipment and test protocols that can be reliably repeated. - Management of data collection and analysis methods (including statistical) to allow for the generation of reports about the refinement of interface systems.
- Be familiar with the operational vehicle based user interfaces that take into account key principles taken from Psychology, Human Factors and cognitive science.
- Working within an automotive field requires consideration of the impact of in-vehicle systems on the driving task and hence designing systems that support a driver to carry out this task is the primary aim.
This role will work as part of a team including both interaction designers and User interface researchers who will work as a team to develop the future interface systems from the ground up and validated all the way through to real world environments.

Skills Required:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Human Computer Interaction, Product Design (with a focus on user interfaces), Psychology, Human Factors / Ergonomics, with a particular interest in understanding user behaviour in an operational environment
- Experience of planning and conducting experimental studies and testing and familiar with the science of human interaction in the vehicle and able to collect, analyse and conclude findings from qualitative and quantitative data to improve and iterate design solutions.
- Strong interpersonal / communication skills, including ability to manage senior stakeholders and communicate at all levels.

Skills Preferred:
Key Performance Indicators
- Continuous testing carried out on interface concepts.
- Key performance metrics published on a regular basis
- Robust analysis of technical data including
* Validation of interface proposals against targets / metrics
* Apply a user centred design approach

Experience Required:
- Familiar with a human centred design process
- Experience of delivering technical products as part of a team.
- Understand and able to plan how to collect data to answer detailed research questions
- Have the ability to react quickly to short time scales
- Operate in an efficient and professional manner in a fast paced environment
- To present findings to a wide audience of mixed abilities, and be able to amend the content if the message is not received. The candidate must be able to present their findings such that they communicate how to create products that customers love for life.
- Have good contacts, or be able to make good contacts in academia in this technical area and be able to guide the department on who the key experts are in industry or academia.
- Driving Licence

Experience Preferred:
- Advanced degree (Masters / Ph.D.) in Human Computer Interaction, Product Design (with a focus on user interfaces), Psychology, Human Factors / Ergonomics
- Design experience in the automotive or consumer electronics industries
- Familiarity with Agile & Scrum methodologies
- Experience of building and managing multiple relationships in complex stakeholder environments

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.