Location: Royal Leamington Spa based with regular travel to the customer site (North West)
Area: Electrical Engineering (Lighting)
Responsibilities
* Lead and coordinate the lighting project across engineering, production and supplier teams.
* Manage task distribution within the EDAG project team, ensuring smooth collaboration and clear responsibilities.
* Serve as the technical interface to the customer, including onsite support if issues arise during vehicle assembly.
* Monitor and track project timelines, milestones and deliverables.
* Manage cross-functional teams from concept to launch.
* Work closely with design and engineering teams to integrate lighting solutions into vehicle designs for oncoming vehicles.
* Expertise in selecting and optimizing lighting technologies.
* Ensuring compliance with OEM standards.
* Achieving aesthetic and functional objectives.
* Deliver exterior lighting commodity plan to achieve on-time program milestones with 100% design release adherence.
* Manage supplier design and validation activities.
* Support ECU software integration and vehicle validation, enabling 100% functional compliance across ECU networks.
* Coordinate R48, FMVSS 108 certification and on-road validation.
* Own and deliver the commodity plan to quality, cost and time.
* Liaise with OEM Engineering /Manufacturing departments throughout the development and launch process.
* Achieve all certifications vehicle and components requirement.
* Lead suppliers to assist in concept/production ready design & development requirements.
* Manage product launch till J1+90.
* Ensure all appropriate standards and requirements are met throughout the development process.
* Resolve issues with component and sub-system engineering and vehicle attribute teams, to develop designs that meet targets.
* Contribute to the development of product specification books, test plans, DVP&R, DFMEA, Control Plans and Quality Assurance requirements.
* Identify risks, initiate corrective actions and proactively solve issues throughout the project lifecycle.
* Conduct product evaluation and design reviews during prototype and pre-production development phases.
* Develop prototypes for virtual and physical verification testing, including field testing.
* Ensure all program targets, including Piece Cost, ED&D Budget, Timing, Weight and Quality, are met.
* Other tasks as assigned by your manager.
Qualifications
* Knowledge of automotive lighting systems, standards and validation processes.
* Experience working with OEMs or Tier 1 suppliers in the automotive industry.
* Proven project coordination or team leadership experience in an automotive environment.
* Degree educated in relevant field. ECUK registration would be beneficial.
* Minimum five years of related Project Engineer experience within a automotive lighting industry.
* Experience of CATIA V5, PLM system and electrical documentation.
* Effective teamwork skills in a global team environment.
* Effective in solving quality challenges.
* Automotive Product Development Processes (V-model).
* High level of analytical ability, where problems are unusual and difficult.
* Proven body engineering experience within a matrix organization.
* MS-Office proficiency.
* Willingness to travel to customer location as required, local and global.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with German as a plus.
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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