Customer Ref: 36943499

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

Vehicle Engineering & Integration Technical Group Leader £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Gaydon (hybrid potential) - 11 Months (potential for renewal)

The Opportunity:
Vehicle Engineering & Integration Technical Group Leader driving the development of new and existing vehicle architectures.
- Drive and lead the engineering integration of new and updated technologies within a vehicle zone(s) into new and existing vehicle architectures.
- Drive functional and attribute target delivery, acting as the voice of the customer to lead any arbitration required within the development process.
- Develop vehicle level end-to-end technical delivery plans for key systems, identifying inter-dependencies and maturation versus customer requirements, throughout virtual and physical test phases.
- Lead Technical Problem Resolution cross-Squad / cross-Zone including escalation as required.

Key Performance Indicators
- Architecture and / or Programme bandwidth & definition underpinning next generation vehicles and able to deliver compatible attribute, customer & business targets
- Support major project delivery through the allocation of appropriate toolsets, operations and team resources.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Accountable as the leader and final technical arbitrator, integrating and delivering the engineering for the given vehicle zone whilst ensuring compatibility with target vehicle package layout, the commodity/system strategies and functional targets.
- Lead Group functional integration within the given zone, to drive out complexity and deliver the most efficient technical solutions.
- Work closely with Vehicle Attribute teams to deliver to targets
- Drive Zonal Group coordinated technical data progression (CAD, DV, commodity/system design freeze & releasing) with squads & interfacing team leads.
- Oversee delivery into both virtual and physical verification and validation.
- Drive Zonal cross squad obstacle resolution, ensuring timely escalation to the Vehicle Engineering Manager as required.
- Ensure prompt escalation of Zonal technical blockers/incompatibilities to Vehicle/Chapter/Enterprise leadership via the Obstacle process
- Support study & Agile spike activities to solve complex engineering problems

Knowledge & Skills
Essential:
- Automotive technical knowledge and extensive experience of complex interactions, including technical analysis & decision-making.
- 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.

Desirable:
- Knowledge of Vehicle attributes, target setting & cascade
- Experience of end-to-end vehicle development

Personal Profile
- An individual with a customer first mindset who is easy to do business with and makes people feel special, driven to deliver experiences that are personalised, transparent and dependable.
- Progressive thinking individual who takes a keen interest in new ideas / technologies and key industry developments
- Ability to embrace the Agile model and work effectively as a champion of Agile principles in practice.
- A resilient individual who has strong influencing and engagement skills, is comfortable challenging all stakeholders and can build credibility and trust through experience and personal style
- A highly self-motivated and proactive individual who can demonstrate exceptional capability in leadership and management skills, who can motivate, develop and lead cross-functional engineering teams

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: 37149557

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

SAP Business Analyst - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) - Solihull (hybrid potential) - 12 Months (maternity cover)

Duties:
SAP Business Analysis work focuses on identifying and analysing business needs, conducting requirements gathering, and defining scope and objectives for SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications integrated with business processes/data and IT infrastructure (i.e., an application system) including:
- Making recommendations for solutions or improvements to business processes that can be accomplished through SAP module(s)
- Researching business requirements, developing detailed specifications, and validating the SAP solutions with business stakeholders
- Communicating business stakeholder needs to the SAP development team by translating business requirements into SAP module requirements

Responsibilities include:
- Managing projects / processes, working independently with limited supervision.
- Coaching and reviewing the work of lower level professionals.
- Problems faced are difficult and sometimes complex. Typical Title:

Skills:
- Working knowledge and experience of S/4HANA Transport Management System (Inbound Order -based planning preferable including freight unit building, transportation cockpit optimisation, integration with MM/EWM modules)
- Ability to create end-to-end test scenarios based on business processes for S/4HANA TM User Acceptance Testing
- Ability to perform hands-on execution of test scripts in S/4HANA TM and validate results against expected outcomes
- Experience working in Logistics Sector (Freight sector preferred)
- Understand automotive or other supply chains and material flow principles
- Able to conduct detailed business process mapping / analysis and identify improvement opportunities, supported by data
- Track record of performing structured analysis of data and presenting outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience in the use of Data and Analytics tools and processes and confident working with disparate data sources (structured and unstructured)
- Data exploration / visualisation with Tableau (preferred), Looker, Power BI etc.
- Strong across the Office 365 technology stack (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Ability to work independently, plan and prioritise varying workload and demands
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education:
- Educated to degree level (STEM subjects preferred) or equivalent experience

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: 37092676

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

Vehicle Package Engineer - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 12 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Duties:
The position is responsible for the engineering integration process. Responsibilities include:
- Creation of vehicle concept proposals in the form of vehicle architecture package layouts.
- Creation of outline component and system proposals to further the vehicle package development.
- Definition and development of detailed vehicle packages at the whole vehicle or package zone level.
- Tracking and monitoring resolution of all geometric issues within a package zone.
- Mediation and negotiation between CoC areas to develop solutions for geometric issues within a package zone.
- Typical Role Title : Vehicle Package Engineer

Skills:
- At least 2 years experience in product development within vehicle integration or packaging role
- Experience of CATIA V5 & V6 for detail or packaging design and geometric integration
- Well rounded knowledge of chassis & propulsion systems and sub systems
- Experience of negotiating solutions in an area of technical conflict
- Experience of using benchmarking tools to support idea generation
- Experience of CATIA for detail or packaging design. (Other 3D CAD experience will be considered)
- Good communication skills - written, graphical and verbal
- Experience of negotiating solutions in an area of technical conflict
- The commitment to deliver quality results in a flexible and dynamic team environment
- A proven ability to work within strict timing constraints

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: 37091354

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

Vehicle Concepts Lead Engineer - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Gaydon (hybrid potential) - 10 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

This role is part of the Off-Cycle Projects arm in the VAVE team. As a Vehicle Concepts Lead Engineer, you'll be responsible for generating CAD schemes to support the generation of the upper body and/or under body package layout in the Concept phase (pre-CS to KO) across all new vehicle products, in order to meet the Engineering, Manufacturing and Design requirements. As a Vehicle Concepts Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for whole vehicle package layout and your key interactions will be mainly but not exclusively with VAVE (Forward Model Architectures, Pre-KO VEM, TGLs, ZI Technical Specialists and SMEs, Human Factors, VE Attribute teams including Weight, TASE, Vehicle Efficiency), Body and Chassis Concepts, Studio Feas, Design, Body Structural Integration & Advanced Powertrain.

Skills Required:
Essential:
- Competency in laying out Upper body hard points: Occupant Positioning across all seats, IP & Console, steering column, base of screen, pedals, ingress / egress, trunk dimensioning and useability.
- And/or Competency in laying out Underbody hard points: Groundlines, Attitude planes, running clearance, approach/departure, front & rear end length for Vehicle Safety / SI Requirements, key Axle points, Tyre Envelopes and EDU/ICE Dynamic motion wraps.
- Understands the interdependencies between Upper body & Underbody requirements (including Legals).
- Fully competent in CAD creation and visualisation preferably Catia V6.
- Self-starter able to sustain a high, multitask workload. Combine Engineering with business skills.
- Ability to work within a team or alone with exceptional organisation skills and attention to detail.
- Must have good presentation skills with the ability to clearly communicate to all levels within the company (production line to director level).

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: 36851557

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

Vehicle Integration Engineer (x2) - Closures - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 12 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Duties:
We are searching for a Geometry Integration Lead Engineer to work within the Vehicle package / Geometric integration department. The team are responsible for the full vehicle geometric integration of the vehicle, whilst balancing system and attribute performance, from concept to end of life, across all vehicle products.

This role is to join the existing integration team to assist with all components that are packaged in the Closures and Exteriors groups.

The team's main responsibilities fall into 4 areas:
- Definition and delivery of the Closures and Exteriors group systems and customer features.
- Integrating Systems into the vehicle to deliver systems, hardware and attribute performance.
- Protecting space in the Vehicle for future technology and customer feature content.
- Ensuring all package-owned standards and requirements are adhered to in the architecture.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- To support the existing team that include package zone leaders and group technical leaders.
- Help the team deliver high quality, clash-free / target achieving geometry.
- Integrating with CoCs and attribute engineering teams with a customer-first mindset.
- Develop packaging proposals for delivery of key components and systems.
- Support delivery teams with weight, cost and customer experience optimised packaging proposals.
- Conduct CAD studies to ensure geometric targets and standards are met or exceeded.
- Supporting geometric and system integration through elegant engineering within the Closures and Exteriors zone.
- Support the resolution of cross-functional issues.
- Adopting agile principles to support zone integration sprints.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Experience in product design in at least one functional area.
- Experience with CATIA V6 for detail or packaging design and geometric integration.
- Structured problem-solving approach & issue-management skills.
- Good communication skills: Presentation, written, graphical and verbal.
- Well-rounded knowledge of vehicle types, propulsion systems and subsystems.
- Experience in using benchmarking tools to support idea generation.
- Experience in negotiating solutions in an area of technical conflict.
- The commitment to deliver quality results in a flexible and dynamic team environment
- A proven ability to work within strict timing constraints.
- The ability to achieve results efficiently, making effective use of all resources available within the company and outside.

Desirable:
- Lead engineer or delivery to launch experience of exterior parts.
- Higher Degree.
- Basic knowledge of client systems such as DOORS/RMDV/RTC/JIRA/SDots/WERS/AIMS.
- Trained/Experienced using AGILE methodology and Agile planning tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Experience in Design Failure Mode Effect Analysis (DFMEA) & Design Review Based on Failure Mode (DRBFM).
- Ability to use CAD viewer tools such as Digi buck / Teamcenter.
- Understanding of project planning and delivery to plan.
- Knowledge of electronic-based parts listing and family trees.
- Working knowledge of Vehicle Packaging roles, Vehicle Engineering and CoC structures and responsibilities.
- Experience in presentation to peers and senior management.
- Experienced Vismockup / Digibuck / 3DX user.
- Experience with CATIA V5.

Education:
Higher Degree

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.