Position Title: Body Panels Design Engineer
Duration: Contract
Location: Hybrid Working - 3-4 days on Woking, Surrey
Essential Criteria:
* Experience delivering body panels systems / body in white to meet design specifications and styling intentions
* Releasing experience / production release and up-issue experience.
* Post release project phase experience (physical build phase and test phase experience)
* Build issues resolution experience (prototype and production)
* Ensure components and assemblies adhere to applicable industry and business standards
* Supporting problem solving activities during virtual and physical builds.
* Assess all engineering prototypes to determine any associated issues or risks, mitigating when, and where found.
* Estimate cost limits and budgets for new designs.
* Represent the department in design reviews and during test and development activities if required
* Ensure components and assemblies adhere to applicable internal, industry, business and where applicable legislative standards and requirements.
* Co-ordinate own design work to deliver timely design releases and meeting all design for manufacture input from supplier.
* Experience in managing cross functional teams
* Experience using CAD viewing software suites
* Carbon Fibre / Composite experience
Nice to Have Criteria:
* Previous Client experience is highly desirable although not essential.
* Maintain and manage engineering records and designs
* Maintenance and update of the section book
* Ensuring responsible designs meet legal compliance
* Work Package Management
* Design Sizing Analysis
* Sub system load analysis
* Joints and interface design
* Materials selection
* Fixing selection justification with appropriate bolt calculations
* Carbon Fibre Design and Manufacture
* DFMEA delivery
* Creation and Management of Engineering Tech Spec.
* Experience in OEM DVP&R
* DFM and DFA delivery
* Pedestrian Protection and Legal Requirements
* Engineering to Commercial Constraints & Commercial Management
* Deliver Engineering Change