Duration: Contract
Location: Gaydon
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
* An On-Cycle (i.e. programme delivery) Weights Engineering role requires assisting with, or ownership of the attribute for the programme, encompassing (but not limited to):
* Lead the coordination of vehicle weight data across all functional owners.
* Own programme‑level weight targets, including setting, balancing, and reporting status to Integration and senior teams.
* Utilisation of set control models to determine the mass and loads of all buildable derivatives on the programme
* Lead resolution of key mass related issues, including loads, distribution, and target gaps.
* Calculate (where appropriate) vehicle mass properties from geometry & first principles
* Coordinate generation & maintenance of Vehicle Mass Property models
* Lead creation and validation of Loading Charts, ensuring limits are feasible and issues are resolved.
* Conduct verification of weight for prototype & production vehicles
* Lead the certification of vehicle masses with appropriate authorities
* Lead in market weight monitoring to ensure vehicles remain within tolerance.
Key Performance Indicators
* Define competitive vehicle targets, using benchmarking insights to guide programme direction.
* Monitor and report vehicle status against targets, ensuring readiness and transparency at all programme gateways.
* Lead administration of the RMDV requirements system, ensuring robust evidence of test and validation compliance.
* Deliver Vehicle Loading Charts and Parametric Models in line with programme milestones and standards.
* Produce programme health panel charts to support gateway reviews and decision‑making.
* Generate certification data to enable timely homologation and regulatory approval.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
* Customer‑focused mindset geared towards understanding and delivering the needs of internal customers and end users.
* Able to demonstrate an understanding of Weight and Mass Properties and it's interaction with other vehicle Attributes.
* Able to prioritise own time and work load.
* Aptitude for engineering, testing and evaluation.
* Able to work precisely and to specified procedures.
* Prepared to work autonomously at all sites, establishing and maintaining relations with local staff.
* Whole vehicle engineering knowledge & cross functional experience
* Knowledge of technologies associated with the automotive sector, especially relating to weight reduction
* Microsoft package elements Project, Power Point and Excel
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