Structural Lead Engineer
Recruiter
JLR
Listed on
25th January 2022
Location
Fen End
Salary/Rate
£43000 - £50000
Type
Permanent
Start Date
2022-01-25
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A leading premium automotive business and leading to move towards electric autonomous vehicles.What to expect
You'll be working within a multi-disciplinary team to lead the delivery of structural accessories, including sourcing and delivery of components/systems for vehicle programmes meeting all defined targets on cost, quality and time. You'll be expected to source commodities to align with programme delivery requirements, commodities will include but are not limited to: towing systems, side steps, undershield protection, and winches. You'll be delivering engineering solutions within programme timescales and within allocated financial budgets, and managing full service suppliers to deliver JLR's performance requirements for all commodities.
In this role, you'll be contributing to ensure delivery of the commodity targets specifically for quality, cost and time, alongside working with and supporting a multi-disciplinary team to evaluate commodity concepts, features and alternatives and develop production releases. Working within a cross functional team ensuring delivery, you'll be developing the team through the engineering, sourcing and delivery of components for vehicle programs on time, quality and cost.
You'll be meeting operational targets created in the strategy phase, to ensure that they can be delivered robustly alongside building, maintaining and managing relationships with internal and external suppliers and stakeholders.
Alongside contributing to the development and optimisation of system component costs, investment, vendor tooling and design and development, you'll be contributing to the overall project cadence and ensure transparent communication and escalation through:
* Driving the creation and update of the commodity plan(s)
* Ensuring effective commodity/system collaboration and communication
* Monitoring tasks across the life cycle of the project
Also, you'll be developing and delivering the test plan, confirming the availability of parts for all stages, and ensuring cross-functional requirements are integrated in module development, as well as undertaking any other work as directed by your line manager, in connection with your job as may be requested.
What you'll need
It's essential that you hold experience in delivery of systems, including physical and software engineering, sourcing and delivery of components for vehicle programs, alongside the following skills and experiences:
* Project management
* Coordination of multifunctional teams
* Comprehensive MS office (excel)
* Degree qualified or equivalent experience
* Experience of delivering and developing technical systems
* Sound first principles knowledge of mechanical systems
Alongside the previous experience, it's desirable that you possess a knowledge of automotive bolt on commodities and interactions, an understanding of automotive mechatronic systems, and a knowledge of JLR engineering release processes and change management systems.
For this role, you'll need to have a passion for the automotive industry. You'll need to be an individual with technical curiosity, capable of delivering engineering excellence. Additional essential factors include:
* An individual with a customer first mindset who is easy to do business with and makes people feel special, driven to deliver experiences that are personalised, transparent and dependable.
* An individual who is results driven, demonstrating tenacity, drive and perseverance with the ability to deliver operational plans in a complex, highly demanding environment.
* An individual with the capability to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with medium term planning
* A resilient and enthusiastic who responds constructively to new ideas and inputs
* A good communicator with the ability to communicate complex ideas
* An effective team player, actively develops and supports team members
* A self-motivated individual with the ability to work autonomously
