Resident Engineer – Body Interior Trim
Location: CW1 2PB, Crewe
Workplace: CW1 2PB, Crewe
What to expect:
Bertrandt is an independent and international development service provider with long years of automotive expertise. With cross-industry know-how and a holistic understanding of systems and products, we create technological solutions at any stage of the product development process. We deal with a focus on hot topics such as digitalization, e-mobility and autonomous systems, mainly for the automotive, aerospace and mechanical engineering sectors, and consistently facilitate the development of tailored solutions in these areas. Our goal: to accelerate technological progress and make a relevant contribution to a sustainable future. We work on this every day – with around 14,000 employees at more than 50 sites worldwide.
We are supporting various customers worldwide in automotive systems development. We are recruiting an experienced automotive engineer to work with our OEM customer on their site as a body interior trim engineer. The role involves project management - interfacing with design, manufacturing, purchasing and other technical departments at the customer and interfacing with remote Bertrandt solution development teams.
Your responsibilities
- Take a lead role in the development and coordination of Instrument Panel, or Centre Console, or Door Trim designs for new vehicle models
- Lead communication between Bertrandt teams and customer departments during design development, release, prototype and manufacturing ramp up phases
- Plan and lead design review, status reporting meetings and attend appropriate customer led meetings
- Maintain status for functional, weight, cost, craftmanship and quality targets using customer templates
- Liaise with stakeholders and suppliers to minimize complexity and tooling investment
- Collaborate with customer departments & suppliers to achieve surface, package and manufacturing feasibility
- Communicate CAE feedback on attribute performance & requirements for additional analyses
- Report and interpret results of tolerance analyses and provide input to craftmanship Gap and Rad Plan
- Support DFMEA and identification of SC & CCs
- Coordinate bid specifications for bought-out components/ assemblies
- Maintain product development process look ahead and deliverables planning
- Prioritise timely and accurate delivery of data to support product development project milestones
- Support engineering release and change management processes as well as resolution of pre-production build issues
- Interact with project team members in the UK, Germany and other locations as required
What you bring along:
- Experience with Body Interior Trim
- Proven ability to self-mange workload and maintain a workplan to ensure project deliverables are met
- Proven ability to comprehend all technical content through previous work developing similar commodities
- Well developed ability to communicate effectively with activists at all levels within Bertrandt and the customer’s organisation
- Demonstrate the ability to be an independent and proactive actor in the interests of the project
- Experience in leading effective meetings (reviews, status report-outs and for issue resolution)
- Used to being flexible to the demands of the working environment
- Experience in KVS, LCA, MMC, Aeko, iQapture & KPM an advantage
- Engineering degree preferred or equivalent experience
Successful candidates need to be eligible to work in the UK, hold a UK driver’s license and be able to travel to Europe and internationally. Support vehicle launch on site as required.
What we offer: An interesting and varied role with an expanding international company, recognised for its industry expertise, company culture supporting teamwork and creativity.