Responsibilities
* Provide expert technical guidance across system/hardware design, component selection, feasibility analysis, and resolution of complex engineering issues.
* Support programme delivery, ensuring supplier milestones and engineering deliverables are met in line with the customer's internal expectations and gateway process.
* Manage supplier technical reviews, design validation activities, and ensure compliance with relevant standards and customer requirements.
* Conduct technical analysis, documentation support, component readiness tracking, and risk assessments.
* Act as the primary interface for day‑to‑day delivery support, providing regular status updates, escalation management, and coordination between customer engineering sub‑teams.
* Ensure all activities are carried out in alignment with the customer's Cockpit Electronics technical roadmap, ensuring consistency of approach and reuse across vehicle programmes.
In addition to the above, key activities and outputs will include (but are not limited to):
Key activities and outputs
* Technical assessments of Cockpit Electronics components (clusters, displays, HUD, HMI modules, domain controllers, input devices).
* Creation and maintenance of component specifications, interface documents, and engineering change documentation.
* Support for build phases—prototype, mule, and VP builds—ensuring parts, software and configurations are validated and issues tracked.
* Supplier coordination, including design reviews, technical sign‑off, 8D problem solving, and validation evidence collection.
* Preparation of engineering documentation, including test reports, risk registers, technical summaries and decision‑making packs.
* Tracking and reporting of delivery readiness, ensuring alignment with programme milestones and gateway deliverables.
* Conducting technical benchmarking, technology assessments, and recommendations for Cockpit Electronics improvement or harmonisation.
* Supporting cross‑functional integration (UX/UI, Systems, Software, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Body Electronics, Chassis teams) as needed.
Deliverables
* Technical Assessment Report.
* Released documentation of DFMEA, DVP, 2D drawings, 3D data within SAP, DFM, ECL.
* RAT update, phased releases in SAP, PRs as required, BDRs, RRLs.
* RFI/RFQ, hardware specifications, software specifications, supplier DFMEA, design reviews, timing plans, 8D reports, QCR, DVP&R, open issue list, boundary diagrams.
* Decision matrix, DVP&R, ECRs.
* BDR, ER/RRL, ROR.
* Benchmarking reports, commodity strategy documentations.
* Open issues list and tracking documentation including minutes of meetings.
Requirements
* Engineering degree 2:1 or above.
* Ability to overcome cultural barriers.
* Demonstrate strong customer, team & supplier management skills.
* Ability to work effectively and calmly under pressure, managing time effectively under tight, rigid deadlines.
* Minimum 8‑10 years of specialised experience in relevant commodity areas (e.g., infotainment, audio, microphone, switches, interior controls).
* Deep commodity domain expertise including hardware definition, complex issue resolution, supplier technical management and compliance with TS16949, ISO 26262, ISO 21434 and customer‑specific guidelines.
* Capability to act as subject‑matter authority for the customer, providing technical direction, strategy definition, trade‑off assessments, and risk identification across multiple programmes.
* Proven experience in cross‑functional technical leadership, supporting design reviews, validation planning, DV/PV execution and technical sign‑off activities.
* Capability to provide rapid technical assessment of supplier proposals, design changes, and feasibility of new technologies.
* Proficiency with tools (JIRA, JAMA, DOORS, Confluence, VDI environment) and support engineering/technical documentation to the customer's standards.
* Experience working with tier‑1 suppliers across global locations, ensuring technical alignment and traceability.
* Excellent communication skills, able to clearly present complex engineering details to a mixed‑competency audience at all levels.
* Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio.
Benefits
* Health cash plan, following successful probation.
* 5 % employer pension contributions.
* Hybrid working.
* 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays.
* Generous absence cover.
* Cycle 2 Work scheme.
* Octopus EV scheme.
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