Customer Ref: 36238784

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

Business Office Planner - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) – Warwickshire (hybrid potential) – 10 Months (maternity cover)

Duties:
- Responsible for strategy and planning to align business operations with the company's mission and goals.
- Research and analyse industry and competitive trends to identify emerging market opportunities and strategic areas of interest.
- Identifies and prioritizes product and service improvement opportunities and creates plans for implementation.
- Develops complex forecasting models, budgets, resource allocation and plans for projects.
- Utilizes comprehensive knowledge of company's internal operations to develop forward-looking focus for business.

Skills Required:
- Good Microsoft office skills inc. Excel & PowerPoint
- Good business acumen

Responsibilities typically include:
- Managing projects / processes, working independently with limited supervision.
- Coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level professionals.

Additional information:
This role is maternity cover until May 2026
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: 36202892

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

Automotive R&D Project Leader - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwick University (hybrid) - 8 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

The role is for a project leader with a background in support of cross-functional projects with multi-stakeholder requirements. The primary purpose of the role within Research is to support the collaborative R&D strategy development, planning and delivery of collaborative R&D projects working cross-functionally, with partner organisations in industry and academia, and leveraging government funding to accelerate and scale up R&D projects.

- High degree of numeracy, attention to detail
- Planning and coordination of work across multiple projects to meet deadlines
- High level of organisational skills
- Effective communication across internal cross functional teams and external 'customer' facing

Qualification:
- A level / HND + Experience
- Previous work experience within a business planning / project management office environment
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, previous use of enterprise systems (e.g. SAP)
- Cross functional working
- planning own work and responsive to support requests
- Self-motivated and able to operate with low supervision
- Preparation of formal documentation to prescribed standards
- Control and management of confidential information including GDPR compliance

Desirable experience
- Previously worked in/around government funded collaborative R&D projects, e.g. Innovate UK and EU
- Previously worked within an accountancy audit / regulated finance framework

Role is based at National Automotive Innovation Centre at University of Warwick (NAIC). Parking permit included for University of Warwick managed carparks Some occasional travel to other client sites may be required. Some hybrid work arrangements possible for remote/home working

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: 36272784

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

Brand Design Planner / Producer - £35.50/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (Hybrid potential) - 8 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Brand design planner (producer) is responsible for the upfront coordination and handling of requests into the brand design team. The purpose of the role is to turn requests into robust project plans, resourced appropriately and structured with deliverables and reviews against timing plans, setting projects up for success before handing off to programme management

Key Responsibilities

- Responsible for setting up how multi-disciplinary projects are operationalised. Creating the framework and blueprint for delivery.
- Follow projects through from KO to conclusion and ensure successful delivery
- Act proactively to anticipate issues and manage risk.
- Insightful planning that marries resource and deliverables and timing.
- Key support function of operational management of the design hub, to achieve our strategic objectives
- Liaise and co-ordinate with programme management and business operations teams to ensure appropriate team capacity to deliver projects on-time and to budget
- Supports and informs capacity planning
- Excellent knowledge of design and the process through to delivery
- Experience of strategically planning multi-disciplinary projects
- Ability to translate plans and strategies into action to support the execution of projects.
- Producer with a strong track record of delivery within both agency and corporate settings
- Creatively sensitive and acumen to understand complex multi-disciplinary design projects
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Interpersonal skills and the ability to present complex information to all levels within the business
- Comfortable managing projects across different cultures, geography and time zones.
- Experience of Wrike, Workfront and MS Project

Key Performance Indicators
- Projects robustly structured and planned for successful outcomes.
- Capacity and scheduling management in support of internal customer expectation
- Support delivery of programmes to budgets, time and quality

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: 35975517

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

Manufacturing Lead Engineer - Trim and Final - £41/hr (Inside IR35) – Halewood (Liverpool) with hybrid potential – 9 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Trim and Final Facilities are responsible for the development and introduction of new and modified facilities associated with new model introductions and model year changes. Ensure facility installations are delivered through strict adherence to Product Creation and Delivery System (PCDS) and Launch Quality Operating System (LQOS) Gateways deliverables, Health & Safety and Manufacturing Engineering Facility procurement procedures.

Key Responsibilities
- Project manage the planning and implementation of facility installations for new model introductions.
- Lead the creation of detailed facility timing plans in line with manufacturing launch strategies.
- Lead supplier selection and vendor management activities with purchasing.
- Provide feasibility statements for Product designs to suit manufacturing process & facility requirements.
- Create and maintain detailed cost trackers up to and beyond programme approval.
- Achieve Equipment Capability targets for all new & modified facilities, including Operating Efficiency Effeteness targets.
- Ensure adherence to client Reliability & Maintainability, 8D, Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF) and Preventative Maintenance (PM) principles.
- Allocating workload through setting and monitoring team objectives.
- Manage and resolve technical issues and escalate where appropriate.
- Embrace the Agile methodology acting as a Scrum Master.
- Represent Trim & Final Facilities at program meetings at all levels and present status.
- Provide departmental responses to PCDS & LQOS deliverables and Product Definition Letter's etc.
- Ensure the team support virtual build events raising and championing issues where appropriate.
Identify resource requirements in support of virtual and physical builds.
- Provide feasibility of product and process designs to suit manufacturing facility requirements.
- Ensure achievement of capability of all processes and equipment, including dimensional targets.
- Ensure application of lean manufacturing principals and Bill of Process (BOP) requirements.
- Drive quality planning and analysis for manufacturing.
- Balance workload and prioritize the team ensuring all key business objectives are met.
- Collaborative working with multiple teams: GME Technologies, Logistics, Digitals, Maintenance, - Production and Programme Management
- Support the development of the Engineers through on the job coaching, creators’ conversations.
- Co-ordinate and Lead Go Look See events.
- Liaising with downstream teams and Manufacturing plants to concur alignment.
- Manufacturing Engineering contribution within agile teams.
- Develop P6 plan to manage team and programme deliverables.
- Communicate programme deliverables to PD&D teams and manage progress reporting.
- Competitor benchmarking for facility and process strategies.
- Drive lean principles with all aspects of manufacturing operating process.

Skills, experience and qualifications required:
- Detailed understanding of NEBOSH and Construction Design Management (CDM) Regulations
- In depth project and budgetary management experience
- Proven track record of delivering facilities within an automotive manufacturing environment.
- Ability to set individual and team objectives and measure performance against them.
- Previous experience of managing multiple facility suppliers and concurrent projects.
- Experience of and involvement in product launches.
- Degree qualified in relevant engineering discipline (preferred).
- Knowledge of and involvement in product development including use of virtual toolsets.
- Candidate must have a record of proactive delivery and commitment to meeting deadlines.

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: 36216169

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

Development Engineer - Suspension - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (Hybrid potential) - 8 months (potential for yearly renewal)

Duties:
Apply engineering theories and principles to perform complex work in research and development of suspension engineering systems, including the design, characterization, and iterative refinement of suspension devices. Work within an Agile Squad to develop industrialized products.

Responsibilities typically include:
- Deliver the commodity plan to quality, cost and time, including maintaining the Worldwide Engineering Release System
- Deliver the Engineering Advanced Product Quality Planning deliverables
- Assist in the Management of Change Requests, expenditure forecasting and the relevant supplier teams in support of delivery of the programme milestones
- Work on spring and damper module test plans, including detailed planning of test and development stages through to sign off and support Engineering test teams with rectification of issues
- Assist in the resolution of issues with supplier component engineering and vehicle attribute teams to develop designs that meet targets
- Ensure all appropriate standards are met through-out design maturation
- Meet programme targets for cost and weight
- Legal regulations and Requirements Management & Design Verification documentation
- Keep all Module documentation up to date including meeting records
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested

Skills:
Essential:
- Previous experience of managing resolution of business, technical and process issues within a Project Team environment
- A good working knowledge of product creation & delivery, change control, product definition and change management processes
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with strong influencing and engagement skills

Desirable:
- Previous experience within engineering or programme planning departments
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings and understand GD&T notation
- CAD / CAE design and analysis experience preferably with Dassault toolsets
- Some experience of delivering suspension damper, coil spring and air spring technologies
- Experience of working within agile scrum methodology

Education:
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience preferred.

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.