Engineering Release Specialist

​Duties: 

• The Release Operations team are responsible for the construction, release and maintenance of the Bills of Material for all carlines for all plants for the JLR business. 

• The team support each Engineering area (Tech centres). 

• Engineering Release Specialists are responsible for specific areas of the vehicle. 

• They have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of which parts/commodities are fitted to which specifications of vehicles and for which markets and will very often provide coaching and support to the Engineering areas on how best to construct a BoM to support downstream consumption. 

• They have a direct impact on vehicle build quality and success at the Manufacturing plants.

Key accountabilities and responsibilities:

• Ensure a timely and accurate BoM is released from Product Engineering to the wider internal and external business, by interpreting and analysing documents from, and discussions with CoC Engineers.

• Have an in-depth knowledge of part usage and logic to ensure parts are correctly coded to support scheduling and build

• Provide focal point to customers and suppliers at commodity level to ensure accurate & timely BoM release.

• You will liaise extensively with Engineering and Manufacturing customers and industry partners and be able to demonstrate excellent levels of self-motivation, enthusiasm and a strong ethic to providing excellent customer service.

• Manage workload to support programme timing, key project dates and departmental targets.

• Support Early BoM, File Set Up & Validation events.

• Participate in local process improvement.

• Develop the skills & have the flexibility to be able to provide holiday & sick cover for colleagues within your own team & other CoC's.

• Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested

Personal profile:

• An individual with a customer first mindset who is easy to do business with and makes people feel special, driven to deliver experiences that are personalised, transparent and dependable.

• An individual who is results driven with the ability to deliver operational plans in a highly demanding environment

• Is proactive, organised, logical and methodical in their approach to tasks

• An individual with the ability to prioritise their workload

• Resilient and enthusiastic, an individual able to deliver results under pressure

• A good communicator with the ability to communicate complex ideas

• An effective team player who supports team members

Skills:    

• Able to manage delivery of multiple tasks

• Complex problem solving and logic skills

• Self-motivated and driven

• Excel proficient 

• Customer facing experience, ability to deal with multiple customers and balance incoming demands.

Preferred, but not essential:

• Dassault Systemes 3Dexperience / Bill of Material experience