BIW Lead Engineer

CompanyGazelle Global

LocationGaydon, England, United Kingdom

Posted At2/23/2026

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Description

As a BIW Lead Engineer, you will be

supporting all engineering activities related to Design & Release of BIW commodities, from concept to launch and working closely with interfacing component owners, Purchasing, STA, Manufacturing and suppliers
Evaluating and implementing cost reduction (VAVE) proposals

Your responsibilities:

Delivering engineering solutions for both prototype and production parts
Optimized design solutions for weight, cost, manufacturing feasibility, quality and functional attributes
Ensure adherence to OEM specific processes and procedures to deliver robust, fully validated geometric compatible commodities
Ensure adherence to OEM specific PLM standards
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clearly communicate design status to key stakeholders such as manufacturing, suppliers, component owners and management

Your Profile

Good hands-on experience in automotive BIW (Core body, vehicle structure, upper & under body, closures, front hood, tail gate, under body cover)
Good Knowledge and experience in NPD (New product development) with respect to complete automotive body system

Proficient in sheet metal design

Proficient in tooling, Jigs & fixture - concepts, assembly and manufacturing

Good experience in concept design, layout making, benchmarking, master sections, A/B/C class of surface, packaging study and fixing concepts

Good understanding of vehicle program milestones

Experience in managing supplier teams for the delivery of program milestones

Experience in ensuring design solutions meeting program level targets for cost & weight, legal regulations & DV requirements, optical quality and Product Audit requirements

Experience in maintaining commodity documentation up to date including meeting minutes, foundation & program DFMEAs, DFM/DFA, quality history & bill of design

Experience in creating and maintaining of BOM, 3D models, 2D drawing and GD&T using CATIA V5/V6 and tolerance stack up

Capable of handling project independently and working closely with CAE team for achieving the desired targets (Functional and NVH).

Supporting in creating and updating supplier RFI/RFQ

Experience in complying with the commodity / System and vehicle level test requirement with detail planning of test & development

Knowledge of issue management and build support

Experience in automotive BIW (core body, vehicle structure, upper & under body, closures, front hood, tail gate, under body cover), 3DX, Catia V5/V6

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

Creating and proposing alternative solutions considering VAVE ideas.
Working knowledge of problem resolution techniques & Root cause analysis techniques (e.g. Six Sigma, 5 Whys, Fishbone, 8D, Ishikawa)