Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Lead Engineer - Vehicle Energy Management - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 8 Months (potential for yearly renewal thereafter)

Duties:
The Integrated Energy Management Lead Engineer will take a leading role in:
Supporting the Efficiency Product Owner in the delivery of data-driven, intelligent, optimised energy nodes (sources of energy conversion) in pursuit of Vehicle Efficiency attributes (e.g. real world and homologated driving range and energy consumption) befitting modern luxury.
Collaborating with a wide range of business stakeholders and Engineers to deliver vehicle programmes against the teams Quality Operating Schedule (QOS; client’s framework for attribute delivery).

Identifying risks and opportunities in a robust data-driven manner with the purpose of informing and influencing business decisions and engineering direction related to vehicle energy nodes.
Reporting to the Vehicle Architecture’s Efficiency Product Owner and working within the Agile operating model, responsibilities will include:

- Supporting squads to plan and share work through facilitating focused and engaging scrum events
- Conduct daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
- Identifying and facilitating in the removal of impediments and risks
- Facilitating stakeholder collaboration wherever required
- Coordinating and contributing towards Vehicle Efficiency attribute verifications and data analysis
- Supporting effective Vehicle Efficiency attribute governance throughout vehicle programmes, identifying and making recommendations for how to handle risks and opportunities as they arise
- Collaborating with tools and methods teams to support development of Vehicle Efficiency attribute
- Where programme delivery imperatives allow, contribute and add value to continuous improvement project work
- Undertaking any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested


Skills:
Essential:
- Knowledge and/or experience of working with Agile operating principles
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Evidence of a methodical, structured approach to problem solving
- Strong presentation skills with the ability to use data and visualisations to articulate complex risks, opportunities and recommendations in an easily digestible way

Desirable:
- Technical engineering background
- Experience of Vehicle attribute and/or vehicle system delivery

Education:
- Educated to Degree level (ideally with a focus on Mechanical or System Engineering)

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.