Lead Seat Belt Engineer

Order Ref: 36321218

Position Title: Lead Seat Belt Engineer

Duration: Contract

Location: Gaydon

Role Profile

• Body Engineering is one of the largest departments within the Client.
• With an increasingly demanding premium customer and rapidly changing technologies and materials, Body Engineering has to stay at the forefront of vehicle innovation and research.
• For these reasons there is considerable depth and strength in the department, which in turn offers people joining us some excellent development opportunities and the ability to contribute to a winning enthusiastic team.
• The purpose of this role is to coordinate the design, development, testing and introduction of new or modified seat belt system across specific programmes.
• Operating in a cross-functional organisation, the Lead Engineer will report into the Group Leader and, where delivering on specific vehicle programmes, have a matrix report into the programme Technical Chapter Lead.
• The role requires the individual to deliver the commodity plan to quality, cost and time and lead the technical content and integrity of the seat belt systems across specific vehicle programmes.
• The Cabin & Safety Systems department has complete responsibility for the design and development of all the Clients' Interior cabin and safety systems from concept design through to volume production.
• With an increasing emphasis on virtual development techniques the department utilises advanced CAD and CAE to support the product development process.
• A role within the Safety Component Group involves working with a wide range of development tools within challenging functional and cost targets and significant liaison with all internal areas of our business as well as external component and system suppliers.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Support the on-cycle squad (including direction from Tech Chapter Leader, Product Owner and Scrum Master) in order to deliver the ABR/PI aspiration, delivering value in each sprint, aligned to the relevant Programme Group vision and epics.
• Contribute to the delivery of the seat belt system onto the programmes, in line with the Product Creation & Delivery System and/or Agile methodology.
• Own and deliver the commodity plan to quality, cost and time, including maintaining the Worldwide Engineering Release System (WERS)
• Own and deliver the Engineering Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) deliverables.
• Manage component and sub-system test plans, including detailed planning of test and development stages through to design verification sign off and support Engineering test teams with rectification of issues.
• Resolve issues with component and sub-system engineering and vehicle attribute teams to develop designs that meet targets
• Ensure all appropriate Client standards and applicable regulations are met through-out design maturation.
• Developing and managing the implementation of feasible technical solutions to achieve programme targets.
• Programme targets for cost, weight, quality (utilising Failure Mode Avoidance techniques) and functional performance.
• Legal regulations, component and sub-system engineering (RMDV) requirements.
• Optical Quality and PCPA (Premium Consumer Product Audit) requirements.
• Keeping all engineering documentation up to date including:
• Engineering and Business Meeting minutes
• Foundation and Programme Design analysis documents
• Quality history and Bill of Design
• JIRA, RMDV, WERS, APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning), PPAP
• Interfacing with key programme attribute teams to support the delivery of all vehicle attribute requirements, especially the vehicle safety attribute
• Managing all the key stakeholders associated with safety component development (e.g. Suppliers, Purchasing, Vehicle Engineering, Quality, Design, Optical & Perceived Quality, Finance, Manufacturing, Service, Logistics, etc)
• Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested from time to time

Key Interactions

• External Suppliers
• Seat Belt Technical Leads (Chapter Head, Chapter Lead, TCLs, TS).
• Vehicle/Interfaces delivery teams (Lead Engineers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, CAD designers/engineers, Chapter Leads, Group Leads, Chief Engineers).
• Purchasing & Finance Teams
• Manufacturing, Supplier Technical Assurance, Material Planning & Logistics

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Previous experience of leading the resolution of business, technical and process issues within an Automotive Engineering Project Team environment
• A good working knowledge of product creation & delivery, engineering change control, product definition and change management processes
• Engineering related Degree or relevant equivalent experience
• Proven experience of engineering project management within a technical environment, ideally encompassing the management of suppliers or other external organisations.
• Previous experience in Body Engineering / Safety Components, Restraint Electronics or Vehicle Safety environments
• Working knowledge of safety system development including airbag or seat belt dynamic performance, manufacturing processes and related standards and test procedures or vehicle safety attribute delivery or test.
• Full UK driving licence.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of vehicle level safety requirements.
• At least one full development cycle on Safety Components or interior system
• Trained/Experienced using AGILE methodology and Agile planning tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience in Design Failure Mode Effect Analysis (DFMEA) & Design Review Based of Failure Mode (DRBFM).

Personal Profile

Essential:

• Demonstrates our Creators' Code behaviours of Customer Love, Unity, Integrity, Growth and Impact.
• Continually working hard to deliver a modern luxury experience to earn and keep our customers' trust and
• loyalty.
• Embracing differences, being empathetic, welcoming challenges together empowering each other to deliver.
• Building trust by speaking openly and honestly, listening attentively, and treating others respectfully.
• Taking initiative and using failure as an opportunity to learn.
• Our Clients' develop by giving & seeking honest feedback.
• Making a difference through our results.
• Our Client innovates and never lose sight of what they want to achieve.
• A passion for the automotive industry and the potential of automotive technology
• Comfortable challenging cross-functionally and at a variety of levels within the business
• An effective team player, actively develops and supports team members.

Desirable:

• Resilient and enthusiastic, an individual able to deliver results under pressure, whilst responding constructively to new ideas and inputs
• A dynamic and determined individual, highly driven, committed and results-orientated with significant pace, energy and confidence. Able to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with strategic vision
• Able to deliver quality and consistency in a complex, highly demanding environment with a range of expectations on what customer-focussed solutions might look like
• An individual with the ability to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style.