Customer Ref: 36296427

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

CAD Author - Catia V5 - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 8 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

The Opportunity
We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented CAD Author to join the Virtual Build & Test team within Engineering Operations. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality CAD modifications that support digital validation and virtual build activities across the product lifecycle. You will work within the Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE platform to ensure CAD data meets engineering and CAE requirements.
Your CAD expertise will directly influence the development of our next generation of vehicles and help to ensure our virtual validation is robust, efficient, and future-ready.

Things that matter to us:
- You like to take ownership of tasks and take personal pride in your own output.
- You are a team player and enjoy forging positive working relationships with others.
- You enjoy problem solving, being confronted with a difficult or complex situation will drive and motivate you to seek and propose solutions.
- You have a continuous improvement mindset and want to drive others to make things better.

Key Performance Indicators
- Deliver expected number of parts modifications within agreed timescales.
- Deliver part modifications to the required quality standard

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
The CAD Author will be responsible for:
- Deliver required CAD modifications in line with engineering requirements and direction.
- Collaborate with Engineers and Stakeholders to ensure CAD modifications meet CAE requirements.
- Lead or support CAE Alignment Reviews to communicate and validate CAD modifications.
- Provide modified, compatible CAD to support virtual series and digital validation activities.
- Ensure CAD modifications are made in line with appropriate CAD standards and agreed working practices.
- Gather customer feedback on the quality and effectiveness of CAD modifications.

Key Interactions
- CAE Teams
- Attribute Teams
- Engineering Teams

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Experience working with CAD & PLM systems (e.g., Teamcenter & CATIA V5).
- Strong understanding of automotive product development processes.
- Understanding of CAD standards and modelling best practises.
- Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment.

Desirable:
- Proficiency in Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE (CATIA V6).
- Experience in virtual series or digital engineering environments.
- Knowledge of client systems and standards.

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.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

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

Customer Ref: 36109624

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

Trainer - Engineering Delivery (x3) - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 8 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

The Opportunity
The Engineering Delivery Platform ( EDP ) aims to completely transform the way in which the business operates to deliver core activity of Product Creation from Idea to End of Life through a focus upon value through a process driven mindset.

Trainer / Change Co-ordinator Responsibilities:
The role has an overarching responsibility to ensure the delivery of process re-engineering change through process centric training content creation and delivery including the measurement and control of delegates learning and competency through tests and where appropriate ‘at elbow support’. Critical to the success of the training at scale within engineering will be successful change control management of training material in line with process development. End user / super user support during deployment will be critical after training to ensure full adoption by the business and managing the ‘currency’ of process and methods for all individuals, e.g. new changes need to be cascaded to those already trained to a previous level / version. Critical to the success of the role is building strong collaborative relationships ensuring engagement, buy in and ownership into a business as usual state ( BAU ) supporting and working alongside process owners at all levels to address issues and concerns real time as they occur.

Accountabilities
- Ensuring all of engineering are trained according to their specific role within process and that their knowledge is current.
- Ensuring training material content is always up to date and changes are managed to ensure there is a record of the version of training that everyone has undertaken.
- Professional training material generation in accordance with agreed standards and guidelines
- Manage and own the training timing plan to ensure all delegates attend appropriate classroom training in line with expected timelines
- Write and manage tests to ensure delegates have understood key learning outcomes at the end of training sessions
- Provide support to individuals within the business after the training as required and where requested run clinics / 1:1’s on specific topics

Measurables
1. Relationship Building and Collaboration:
- Stakeholder satisfaction scores.
2. Change Management Planning:
- Completion and approval of change management plans.
- Alignment of change management plans with business process requirements.
- Timeliness of plan development and updates.
3. Coordination and Leadership:
- Number of training sessions, workshops, and one-on-one meetings conducted against expectations
- Participant engagement and feedback scores.
- Adjustment / continuous improvement based upon feedback
4. Progress Monitoring:
- Regularity and accuracy of progress reports.
- Number of issues identified and resolved.
- Timeliness of corrective actions taken.
5. Communication Materials Creation:
- Number and quality of user guides, FAQs, and presentations created.
- User satisfaction and comprehension scores.
- Effectiveness of communication materials in facilitating understanding and engagement.
6. Ongoing Support and Guidance:
- Number of support sessions and interactions with early adopters, end users, and super users.
- User satisfaction and feedback scores.
- Resolution time for user questions and concerns.
7. Adoption
- Number of individuals using the process, methods and tools in accordance with the training.

These measurables will help ensure that the activities are effective and aligned with the overall goals of the organisation.
Key Interactions
- Functional Domain teams (Body/Chassis/Electrical/Powertrain)
- Vehicle Engineering teams
- Vehicle Programme teams
- Engineering Operation teams
- Digital Engineering Capability teams
- Wider Product Creation Digitalisation team
- Company Quality
- Purchasing / Supplier Technical Assist (STA)

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Ideally a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in business administration, Information Technology or related field or relevant experience
- Training development and delivery experience essential.
- Proven experience in classroom training essential, preferably with process focus
- Strong project coordination and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines concurrently.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with individuals at all levels of the organisation.
- Solid understanding an experience of change management principles including adoption.
- Proficiency in creating engaging and informative communications material.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to identify issues, analyse data and propose solutions.
- Ability to adapt to a fast paced dynamic work environment.

Personal Profile
Essential:
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Stakeholder management and influencer
- Excellent behaviours to allow interaction at all organisation levels from grade A to LL2
- Working with business partners, internally and externally
- Working with international colleagues (European, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, Slovakian, etc.)
- Structured, organised and disciplined in approach to planning
- Ability to deliver with urgency
- Ability to work with ambiguity
- Self-directed and self-paced

Desirable:
- Coaching skills
- Experience of using Jira / xray
- Experience of Agile methodologies

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.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

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

Customer Ref: 36171084

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

Senior Engineer - Propulsion Systems - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 8 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

The Opportunity
In this role, you will plan and coordinate Propulsion System test work across prototype vehicle builds and system test rigs.
Working closely with Vehicle Engineering, Prototype Build Operations, Test & Development and Commodity Engineering teams, you will use your knowledge of electrified propulsion technology to drive the correct development work and influence build schedules, ensuring customers can conduct their intended test activities with hardware and software that is fit for purpose.
As the primary point of contact for Propulsion system test activities, you will be responsible for identifying and driving resolution of emerging technical risks and issues which could prevent system or vehicle test work from completing on time or to quality, and communicating clearly with stakeholders to ensure you understand their requirements and our stakeholders have an accurate status and prognosis at all times.
It is expected that achieving this will utilise Agile structures, such as Daily Standups, Group Sync or Scrum of Scrums meetings and showcases.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Run succinct daily standups with vehicle and rig users to ensure planned test work can be conducted, identifying Obstacles to upcoming work in sufficient time to resolve before they impact critical activities.
- Collaboratively identify, collate and manage issues to ensure prioritised resolution activities (either interim or permanent) are clear, with an empowered owner and expected completion date for each issue, aligned with customer teams.
- Use the in-depth knowledge of hardware and software capability for Propulsion system components, developed in-role, to derive and influence medium- and long-term Development Validation plan.

Knowledge Skills and Experience
Essential:
- knowledge of the key components constituting an electrified Propulsion System and their primary functions, such as High Voltage (HV) batteries, power electronics and electric drive units.
- An understanding of vehicle networks, software development and calibration activities.
- An understanding of the generic steps in a New Product Introduction / Product Development process.

Desirable:
- Knowledge of PCDS and Programme Gateways.
- Knowledge of Agile Ceremonies and the role of a Scrum Master.
- Experience of commodity delivery, software delivery, programme management, risk management or structured problem-solving processes and methods. Some examples may be qualifications like PRINCE2, PMP, APMP / ChPP, AgilePM, Six Sigma or similar
- Experience with Project Management or Agile toolsets, such as JIRA, Confluence, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project or similar

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.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

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

Customer Ref: 36223437

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

Test Engineer - Automotive Power Electronics - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) - Coventry/Warwickshire - 8 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

The Role
You’ll deliver excellence by providing engineering support to all Power electronics testing on inverters and E-machines. You will be in direct technical engagement with the client, University academia and 3rd party engineering teams supporting your Lead Engineer in the understanding of test requirements in detail. As part of your role, you will ensure the effective preparation of Units Under Test, routine operation of test beds, programming of test cells & ensure proper installation and instrumentation of the unit under test. Through our purpose, vision, strategy and transformation, you will show your engineering skills, behaviours and competencies in all you do, contributing to supporting the facility operate for customer groups.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities 
- Understand customer test requirements and execute the test cases with the requested test data
- Operate the key dyno test facilities on dynamic customer requirements with maximum test bed utilisation
- Understand diverse test methodologies and configure based on test bed capabilities. Analysis of test data and evaluation of findings to provide solutions and move the test activity forward.
- Data-driven diagnosis using software tools and rectification of issues, engagement of support teams to facilitate resolution
- Planning, scheduling and execution of several test requirements from different stakeholders and customers
- Coordinate and guide a small team of technicians to complete the preparation, installation and commissioning of the unit under test
- Support cross-functional meetings and improvement projects with various stakeholders
- Adhere to quality standards to ensure all equipment meets required standards.
- Adhere to Health and Safety guidelines and provide a safe working environment for all staff.
- Create, review and improve single-point lessons and procedures for others to follow
- Create, review and update project and activity Risk Assessments
- Identify working practices that can be modified/improved to operate more safely and more efficiently
- Engineering Hygiene through 5S methodology

Essential:
- Fundamental knowledge on inverters, e-machine operations and power electronics
- Basic knowledge of automation and data acquisition systems
- Experience in rig/laboratory-based technical test and evaluation processes in the field of Power electronic systems
- Knowledge of test methodologies and facility operations
- Ability to understand electrical circuits and diagrams
- A detailed understanding of electrical/mechanical measurement techniques
- Electrical and Mechanical skills and knowledge
- Excellent computer skills, including Data Analysis through software tools
- Structured and Logical approach to Problem Solving
- Presentation and Communication skills, including the ability to create schedules, present information to others and organise concurrent activities
- Understanding of Health and Safety, Risk Assessments and other related regulations
- Commitment, flexibility, self-motivation, robust, clear communication.

Desirable:
- Degree Level Education in an Associated Subject
- Experience or knowledge on AVL PUMA, ETAS INCA, Vector CAN systems
- Knowledge of hybrid and Battery electric vehicles
- Awareness of high voltage systems
- A detailed understanding of electrical/mechanical measurement techniques

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.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

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

Our global motorcycle manufacturing client is urgently looking to fill the following role:

Systems Requirements Engineer EV - Market Rate - Leicestershire - Initial 6 months (potential to roll)

Job Purpose
Form part of the UK technical EV team to support the wider EV structure. Responsibility for execution of motorcycle programme development and deliverables. Requirements capture and distillation for future developments. Support the L1 programme with on hands technical support in the UK.

Key Responsibilities
- Technical specifications to deliver to suppliers or internally
- Technical drawings, diagrams and flow charts to deliver to suppliers or internally
- Preparation of test cases for validation
- Failure analysis of systems/CAN logs
- Vehicle and component level testing

Qualifications:
- BEng or higher in Engineering discipline
- 4+ years electrical/systems engineering experience (hands-on preferred)

Key skills
- Understanding of distributed vehicle systems, vehicle architectures, concepts, and V-model approach
- Distillation of requirements from product attribute definitions
- Understanding of electrical/electronic components/modules
- Fault finding and troubleshooting
- Experience with Vector CAN tools

Additional Information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

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