Project Engineer – Switches and Controls

Role Overview

• Offering expert technical guidance across system / hardware design, component selection, feasibility analysis and resolution of complex engineering issues.
• Supporting programme delivery, ensuring supplier milestones and engineering deliverables are met in line with the customer’s internal expectations and gateway process.
• Managing supplier technical reviews, design validation activities, and ensuring compliance with relevant standards and customer requirements.
• Conducting technical analysis, documentation support, component readiness tracking and risk assessments.
• Acting as the primary interface for day-to-day delivery support, providing regular status updates, escalation management and coordination between the customer’s engineering sub‑teams.
• Ensuring that all activities are carried out in alignment with the customer’s Cockpit Electronics technical roadmap, ensuring consistency of approach and reuse across vehicle programmes.
• Technical assessments of Cockpit Electronics components (clusters, displays, HUD, HMI modules, domain controllers, input devices)
• Creation and maintenance of component specifications, interface documents, and engineering change documentation.
• Support for build phases — including prototype, mule and VP builds — ensuring parts, software and configurations are validated and issues tracked.
• Supplier coordination, including design reviews, technical sign‑off, 8D problem solving, and validation evidence collection.
• Preparation of engineering documentation, including test reports, risk registers, technical summaries and decision‑making packs.
• Tracking and reporting of delivery readiness, ensuring alignment with programme milestones and gateway deliverables.
• Conducting technical benchmarking, technology assessments, and recommendations for Cockpit Electronics improvement or harmonisation.
• Supporting cross-functional integration (UX/UI, Systems, Software, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Body Electronics, Chassis teams) as needed.

Requirements

• Engineering degree 2:1 or above
• Ability to overcome cultural barriers
• Demonstrate strong customer, team & supplier management skills
• An ability to work effectively and calmly under pressure and to manage time effectively under tight and rigid deadlines
• Have 5+ years of programme delivery experience in automotive electronics or mechatronics, including delivery across multiple development gateways.
• Be capable of end‑to‑end component & commodity software / feature delivery, covering requirements, supplier coordination, prototype build support, validation tracking, and launch readiness.
• Demonstrate strong abilities in issue management, including root‑cause analysis with suppliers, risk escalation and driving cross-functional closure plans.
• Be proficient in planning and coordination, including BoM management, DFMEA creation and monitoring, DVP status tracking, commodity releases, change management and document control.
• Understand the interaction between mechanical, electrical, software and validation teams, ensuring alignment of timelines.
• Have demonstratable experience in working with tier-1 suppliers across global locations, ensuring technical alignment and traceability and managing design & development from concept through to delivery.
• Have experience managing offshore/nearshore engineering activities and ensuring consistent communication and quality outputs.
• Be strong in administrative rigour — meeting notes, actions, technical reporting — aligned to the customer’s templates and compliance expectations.
• Have a working knowledge of systems (JIRA, TCM, JAMA/DOORS, SAP, Enovia / 3DX ) and internal processes for gateway readiness and deliverable handover.
• Mircosoft Excel, Word, Power Point, Project, Visio

Tech Stack

• Cyber Security

Benefits

• Health cash plan, following successful probation
• 5% employer pension contributions
• Hybrid working
• 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays
• Generous absence cover
• Cycle 2 Work scheme
• Octopus EV scheme