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.
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.
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