Job Title - Body In White Design Principal Engineer
Location - Cranfield
Pay Rate - £27.94 via PAYE (inside IR35)
Length of contract - 12 months
Working patten - Minimum 3 days in the office / 2 days at home- ( this may change depending on workload)
Must have experience in:
* BIW (Body In white)
* Catia
* GD (Grade Delay)
Key Responsibilities
* The person will be expected to carry out design activities related to innovative technologies / cost optimisation / break through ideas related to BEV (Battery EV) vehicles - focusing on future vehicles as well as current production.
* Scope covers platform commodities: Body in white (BIW) and trim components (acoustic and aerodynamic related parts).
* Study technical solutions (benchmark, FMEA, design parts and systems etc), build business case (cost analysis), lead validation and adoption of the new design.
* Leading/supporting communication and negotiation with internal and external stakeholders including other design sections, suppliers, manufacturing plant, test group, product planning group, project management group etc
* Collaboration with broad range of entities across Nissan organisation: Nissan Technical and Business centres in Europe as well as Nissan Japan R&D and Nissan India support centre.
Qualifications, Skills and Training
* Minimum HNC/HND or international equivalent qualification in a relevant engineering discipline. Degree level qualification preferred.
* Experience working with metal pressings and assembly and/or trim parts is necessary (experience in both commodities is preferred but not mandatory)
* Extensive experience in automotive design, minimum Tier 1 supplier, OEM preferred.
* Experience of supplier management is necessary
* Experience working with other automotive OEMs is highly desirable
* CAD skill is highly preferable but not mandatory (preferably NX)
* Driving licence valid in the UK/EU is necessary
English language skills must be sufficient to carry out the work required .
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