Vehicle Engineering & Integration Technical Group Leader – 36943499 (1131)
Warwick, Warwickshire
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Job Title: Vehicle Engineering & Integration Technical Group Leader - 36943499
Location: Warwickshire
The Opportunity
Essential:
Location: Warwickshire
The Opportunity
- Vehicle Engineering & Integration Technical Group Leader driving the development of new and existing vehicle architectures
- Drive and lead the engineering integration of new and updated technologies within a vehicle zone(s) into new and existing vehicle architectures.
- Drive functional and attribute target delivery, acting as the voice of the customer to lead any arbitration required within the development process.
- Develop vehicle level end-to-end technical delivery plans for key systems, identifying inter-dependencies and maturation versus customer requirements, throughout virtual and physical test phases.
- Lead Technical Problem Resolution cross-Squad / cross-Zone including escalation as required.
- Accountable as the leader and final technical arbitrator, integrating and delivering the engineering for the given vehicle zone whilst ensuring compatibility with target vehicle package layout, the commodity/system strategies and functional targets.
- Lead Group functional integration within the given zone, to drive out complexity and deliver the most efficient technical solutions.
- Work closely with Vehicle Attribute teams to deliver to targets
- Drive Zonal Group coordinated technical data progression (CAD, DV, commodity/system design freeze & releasing) with squads & interfacing team leads.
- Oversee delivery into both virtual and physical verification and validation
- Drive Zonal cross squad obstacle resolution, ensuring timely escalation to the Vehicle Engineering Manager as required.
- Ensure prompt escalation of Zonal technical blockers/incompatibilities to Vehicle/Chapter/Enterprise leadership via the Obstacle process
- Support study & Agile spike activities to solve complex engineering problems
Essential:
- Automotive technical knowledge and extensive experience of complex interactions, including technical analysis and decision-making.
- Excellent written and verbal technical communication, influencing and negotiation skills.
- Experience in leading teams of people to solve complex technical issues using a structured approach e.g 8D and/or Six Sigma
- Project Management experience of delivery against a complex set of Programme technical deliverables.
- Knowledge of Vehicle attributes, target setting and cascade
- Experience of end-to-end vehicle development processes