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Function: Technical Conformity - Certification
Contract: Full time - Permanent
Location: Pyms Lane, Crewe, CW1 3PL with flexible hybrid working
Bentley Motors is combining a world of luxury and progressive technology to embrace an electrified future. Join us as we embark on the most transformative phase in Bentley's history.
Purpose of the Role
Join the Technical Conformity - Powertrain Certification team as the Technical Manager - Powertrain Certification where you'll provide technical strategic leadership, VW Group alignment, guidance and in-depth knowledge to support and ensure emissions and powertrain compliance. With a focus on the Chinese market from a technical aspect, ensuring delivery on time and within budget, for current and future projects. The role is responsible for ensuring that new legislation is understood within Technical Conformity and what effect its introduction has on Bentley products. Reporting into the Powertrain Certification Functional Manager your main responsibilities include:
* Accountable for deliverables to a specified timeframe, quality and cost relating to powertrain certification
* Developing and maintaining specialist technical and business knowledge and capability, to ensure appropriate technical direction is provided
* Accountable for developing and influencing the strategic technical direction within specialist area, including future powertrain certification strategies
* Maintain effective communication internally and within VW Group
* Propose process and method improvements to develop departmental capability
* Ability to solve complex Engineering related problems. Analysis and management of several design related issues to identify the root cause
About the Team
Engineering Technical Conformity ensure compliance of all Bentley vehicles with applicable legislation to enable their sale. In addition, we safeguard the end customer and the Bentley brand by ensuring errors in the design and development process are prevented from becoming consequential.
About you - Skills and Experience
The successful candidate will be an Engineer / Senior Engineer with demonstrable knowledge and experience applicable to Gasoline, Electric & Hybrid powertrains and other associated systems, including certification activities related to those systems. You will have appropriate experience working in the Automotive Industry, experience of powertrain certification would be beneficial and China in particular. You will have established influencing skills that can be utilised across a range of stakeholders including our VW Group partners in your subject matter area of expertise, to advise on recommendations where required. You will also be the technical point of contact for your internal team and as such, must be able to translate technical information into an understandable format according to your audience.
* Able to demonstrable expert knowledge applicable to the legislation for powertrain certification including but not limited to tailpipe emissions, fuel consumption, energy consumption, electric range, RDE, OBD and hybrid testing
* Able to plan, monitor and expedite specified tests through liaison with VW Group partners and outsourced work with external suppliers
* Proven experience of negotiating with internal and external suppliers
* Ability to read and understand complex legislation and cascade its effect in relation to Bentley programmes
* Ability to lead on technical direction working with other departments and colleagues
* A Higher Engineering degree or technical equivalent experience
* An eye for detail and a structured approach to work
What Bentley Offers
* Flexible working hours
* Hybrid working options
* 35 days annual leave inclusive of UK bank holidays
* Progression pathways and programmes, mentoring, and study support opportunities available
* Optional car lease scheme with discounted access to brand new VW Group cars (VW, Seat, Skoda, Audi) up to every six months
* Health and life assurance benefits providing up to five times annual salary
* Annual salary reviews and competitive bonus scheme
* Contributory pension scheme - you put in 6% we put in 10%
* Access to a wide range of resources to support your health and well-being including an online GP, the choice to join BUPA health plans, a mental health counsellor, and onsite physio
* Paid volunteering days dedicated to community giving
The Bentley Campus
Our campus is going through an exciting transformation offering unrivalled facilities including green spaces, free parking, an onsite restaurant, coffee shops and Legends gym.
#BelongingAtBentley
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Beyond100
Announced in 2020, Bentley's ground-breaking Beyond100 strategy targets sustainable luxury mobility leadership, reinventing every aspect of the business. Building on over two decades of forward-thinking, join us as Bentley moves towards a sustainable future.
Closing date: 11 November 2024
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