Forseven, a revolutionary company looking to transform the EV industry through cutting-edge technology and innovative engineering practices, is seeking an exceptional Head of Advanced Concepts to join our highly skilled and dynamic Engineering team.
This pivotal role will operate in a hybrid capacity out of one of our offices near Oxford or the Midlands, where the successful candidate will have the opportunity to work alongside some of the most visionary minds in the automotive field.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to become part of a scale-up, where your contributions will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our forward-thinking company. With its rapid growth trajectory and dynamic nature, Forseven offers you an exceptional platform to help steer our path to success as we expand into new horizons.
The Opportunity
As the Head of Advanced Concepts are to balance the project resource to deliver engineering solutions that push the technology bandwidth and manage these through the early concept definition, scheme development and into Research & Development.
What you'll do
* Managing Schemes and Concepts to deliver true value and uniqueness
* Assisting with the generation of Master Models and Hardpoints at the Early Stage of Products
* Support to define concepts and technologies that fit to the business aspirations and show tangible benefits to future vehicles
* Escalating and Present incompatibilities between aspiration, target, design and package where required with possible solutions for informed decision making
* Liaising with Vehicle Architecture to ensure technical targets and hardpoints are supported and delivered where required.
* Liaising with the Product team to understand future vehicles, variants, sub systems
* Liaising with Research & Development to take conceptual models into physical test pieces to prove out designs
* Generating Concept sections to support the transition to the wider engineering team.
* Ensure designs meet all relevant safety and regulatory requirements, and are formally verified to meet these and other specifications (performance, cost).
Who are you
* Engineering experience across a number of commodity groups ideally powertrain, interior, structures, chassis, exterior, BIW or electrical in an automotive OEM or Tier 1 supplier:
* Package/Concept/Architecture Engineering experience
* ·Excellent understanding of concept, package and integration in automotive
* Competence in reviewing engineering solutions.
* Catia V5 (or alternative CAD system) design experience essential.
About us and our culture…
At Forseven, we are more than just a team of professionals; we are dynamic innovators, visionary collaborators, and trailblazers who believe in making a difference. Our passion lays in revolutionising the electric vehicle industry through our cutting-edge advancements and sustainable solutions that aim to transform the way transportation is perceived.
Currently operating under stealth mode, our focus is entirely directed towards achieving excellence as pioneers in creating sustainable mobility solutions which will help shape the future of transportation.
We're looking for enlightened individuals who possess an unwavering passion, relentless drive, and insatiable curiosity to question conventional norms and push beyond perceived limitations.