Customer Ref: 35931707

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



Comms and Engagement Specialist - £30/hr (Inside IR35) - Solihull (Hybrid potential) - 12 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

The Comms and Engagement Specialists overarching objective is ensuring robust delivery of incremental deployment releases to business end users, getting the organisation engaged and ready for the change, and ensuring that the change is adopted and sustained. In order to achieve this, the Comms and Engagement Specialist will be able to monitor and manage the impact of change.

key activities include:
- Describing and communicating the impact of process changes on business roles and relationship to user access within the tools
- Identifying stakeholders and end users in scope for deployment activities
- Support onboarding of Early Adopters and Super Users
- Conducting business change impact assessments with relevant senior stakeholders in preparation of a deployment
- Creating stakeholder communication and engagement plans, and supporting the communication of these to relevant End Users
- Supporting business interactions with matched pair Process Leads and key stakeholders in the development of global business processes
- Ensure `Idea to Product' ; global business processes maintain alignment with the overall Transformation Process Architecture and are compliant with set regulations and standards
- Develop, deploy and maintain an effective and comprehensive communications strategy, that delivers value, promotes user engagement and adoption and celebrates successful milestone achievements, aligned with and complimenting manufacturing system deployments



Skills:

- experience or exposure working on transformational projects
- strong presentation skills
- experience of collaboration and cross functional team working
- strong stakeholder management skills
- set high standards for written materials and diligently follow them personally and hold others to account to achieve
- create standard timing plans for business change and readiness activities
- experience in developing communication strategies, plans and the successful implementation of
- critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
- liaise between the business, technology teams and support teams
- relevant degree or equivalent working

Experience preferred
:
- Strong communicator
- Stakeholder engagement
-
Self directed and self motivated

- Microsoft Excel and Plan creation



Additional Experience preferred


- Familiarity working in a manufacturing facility or environment
- Experience of using Atlassian applications, e.g.; JIRA / Confluence
- Experience of Agile
- Experience in change, comms and engagement previous roles





Additional comments:
- Candidates will require Change Management experience.



- Multiple client locations

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.

Customer Ref: 36019466

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

Product Owner - Automotive Software - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 10 Months (potential for yearly renewal thereafter)

Description:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Product Owner in the Powertrain Software Control Group, working in the client's Agile framework. It is responsible for defining the Product Vision and Backlog for a squad, in order to coordinate the delivery (system design, software implementation and verification) of a number of significant propulsion features across parallel vehicle programmes. The feature set covers BEV driver modes and predictive features.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Become an expert in the squad’s feature content and act as the central point of contact, within the business, for the feature delivery status
- Act as interface between squad and external customer/stakeholders
- Communicate clear product goals and prioritised backlog to the squad
- Maximise the value of the output that the squad works on by using iterative ways of working to deliver value quicker and minimise risk
- Maintain a strong understanding of client systems engineering framework, software development processes and verification testing capabilities
- Ensure upfront alignment and coordination with other interacting squads or groups
- Establish/Facilitate/Participate in key agile ceremonies across co-located and virtual teams
- Rapidly respond to changing customer needs through fast, regular feedback and reprioritisation
- Support Scrum Master in the development, implementation and adherence of Agile project management processes
- Confidently and clearly present issues and proposed feasibility solutions, as well as provide status on a regular basis to all stakeholder levels
- Support the squad in resolving key technical issues
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested from time to time

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Experience and knowledge of Agile/Scrum product delivery methodology, working as a Product Owner
- Experience and knowledge of Systems Engineering methodologies and tools
- Experience of delivering engineering and/or analytical projects
- Experience of solving complex technical issues using a structured approach with the ability to identify areas for improvement
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred

Desirable:
- Experience within the Automotive Sector
- Experience of managing projects and backlogs in tools such as Confluence and JIRA
- Prior knowledge/experience of working on distributed control systems for automotive propulsion features
- Experience of requirements management in Dassault TRM or IBM DOORS
- Experience in system modelling using MBSE tools such as CATIA Magic or IBM Rhapsody
- Experience in developing control systems using MATLAB/Simulink

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.

Customer Ref: 36003772

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

Lead Project Engineer - Towing - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 10 Months (potential for yearly renewal thereafter)

We are currently looking for an experienced engineer to join us as a Lead Engineer in an engineering integration team that delivers a Durability, Robustness and Towing Customer Experience.

The team sits in Vehicle Engineering and is responsible for the confidence we have in the whole vehicle, for the length of its life, wherever they go in the world. This role will aim to enhance the customer experience through the design, development, measurement and balance of customer attributes for the vehicles. Utilising your engineering experience, you will take the lead on Project Managing vehicle programmes and/or technology projects. The scope of the role could include the whole vehicle development lifecycle from benchmarking, developing design solutions with delivery teams through virtual/physical verification/validation phases to Job#1 delivery.

The ideal candidate will have experience and enthusiasm for the automotive sector with desire to learn, build and apply technology and/or competitor knowledge.

Responsibilities:
- Project Manage Vehicle or Technology programmes.
- Detailed strategy & delivery planning for the attribute utilising CAE, RLD, rig and/or driven DV activities with status reporting.
- Produce solutions for projects and be able to apply technical subject matter expertise to new knowledge into Foundation knowledge and vehicle programs.
- Working with system and component areas to define and maintain cascaded target requirements in support of overall vehicle level targets (RMDV, Doors as required)
- Work with component engineers and suppliers as required to drive implementation and resolution of all engineering solutions.
- Research concept ideas using complex modelling to work out whether new developments and innovations would work and be cost effective.
- Deliver technical recommendations and reports.
- Conduct benchmarking studies to determine best practices, industry movements and future trends.
- Produce solutions for projects by Leading Subject Matter Expert groups to resolutions.
- Working with system and component areas to support of overall vehicle level targets.
- Support Programme Team to ensure all technical issues are identified and resolved.
- Many opportunities to share and convey knowledge, experiences or innovations to a progressive forward-thinking team.

Experience Required:
- Broad appreciation of Automotive vehicle technologies.
- An individual with a customer first mindset.
- A baseline engineering understanding of Engineering Principles.
- Drive to learning and contribute to Durability and Robustness Team.

Desirable:
- Knowledge of Durability & Strength principles
- Experience in project management of engineering test activities.
- Previous use of problem-solving including application of Root Cause Analysis, DoE etc.
- Understanding of Systems engineering principles
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- Ability to effectively explain complex ideas.
- Microsoft package elements Power Point and Excel.
- Knowledge of whole vehicle 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.

Customer Ref: 35941096

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



Our client has recently restructured the Propulsion CAE team in particular the Virtual Build Factory team. The area is currently inventing and developing its processes to improve speed & quality. The succesfull candidate will be required to detect opportunities and develop the code to automate its process to unleash the efficiency required from the team. The role is multidisciplinary as it involves working on-cycle and off-cycle programmes primarily developing the code but working closely with Development engineers, analysts and model builders.

The indidividual will be responsbible for the following:
- The collection and compilation of the Non Geometric Data by working with a multitude of internal customers
- The collection and compilation of the Geometric Data operating the inhouse CAD Software to help the team build the virtual models.
- Understand the Virtual Factory Floors in order to find opportunities to automate the current processes as well as build the required KPIs
- Determine the automation and optimisation requirements, develop code, metrics and targets.
- Code/program to convert the manual effort into automation
- Develop programming code to automate all manual processes to reduce time and improve quality.
- Support methods reviews as appropriate contributing ideas.
- Develop and deliver new process training material.
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested.
- Creation of user guides and manuals to the train CAE team members.

Skills:
ESSENTIAL
- Proffiency in programming language Python, VB, Java, Simulink, Matlab etc.
- Good understanding of CAD software 3DX CATIA
- MS Excel
- Ability to adapt / understand new technology areas
- Communication skills

DESIRABLE
- Understanding of propulsion systems
- Understanding of materials and material properties
- Awareness of EDU, Batteries, HV charging system, Electrical, Mechanical
- Machine learning AI etc

Education:
Programming, Electrical, Mechanical, AI, Software



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.

Customer Ref: 35955450

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

Functional Safety Engineer - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Coventry - 6 Months (potential to extend)

Duties:
This function is responsible for the functional safety verification of battery management controls software.
A Specialist Professional is a recognized subject matter expert in job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.

Responsibilities include:
- Using requirements to derive test cases.
- Write test cases in gherkin (BDD) and stored within X-Ray, a subset of JIRA.
- Execute manual test cases on HiL Rigs (Dspace, vector or NI) and create test report.
- Create defect tickets for software failures or other issues faced.

The test case author shall:
- Create the tests based on the system requirements (reviewed, approved, and baselined), considering the requirements verification criteria.
- Take into consideration the test methods & the methods for deriving the tests (according to ISO 26262-6.12) before test creation, mentioning them in the test.
- Provide detailed test description (test purpose) in natural language form pre-conditions test flow or test sequence post-conditions evaluation criteria link between the tests and the system requirements.
- Assure the consistency (through a report - traceability report) between tests and requirements, evaluate the eventual existence of suspect flags (indication that the test must be updated due to requirement change)
- Store the generated report under version control (object under review)
- Freeze (baseline) the content of the test.
- Inform the review stakeholders to proceed the review activity (automatic notifications through state change – e.g. Review)
- Understand and co-ordinate activities between all stakeholders in order to deliver safety-related verification activities
- Ensure common approach and common technical solutions where possible across all projects
- Ensure that ISO26262 [Part 6]/[Parts 4&5] are satisfied.

Experience:
- Prior experience of functional safety verification within a software/controls role
- Functional Safety (ISO26262) experience at Software level
- Specific knowledge of ISO26262 [Part 6]/[Parts 4&5] required

Education:
Degree or relevant equivalent experience preferred

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.