Integration Engineer

​POSITION DESCRIPTION:

• You’ll be a Technical Group Integration Engineer driving the development of new and existing vehicle architectures within the company. Responsible for driving integration of new technologies into new and existing vehicle architectures. Drive functional and attribute target delivery, acting as the voice of the customer to lead any arbitration required.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• The technical arbitrator, integrating and delivering the engineering for a defined group as part of the whole vehicle development whilst ensuring compatibility with GRID, the commodity/system strategies and functional targets

• Support group  functional integration for given vehicle, to drive out complexity and deliver the most efficient technical solutions

• Work closely with Vehicle Attribute Robustness team to drive delivery of embedded design quality, service and manufacturing requirements

• Drive vehicle technical data progression (CAD, DV, AIMS, Build, Test & Releasing etc..) with squads & interfacing team leads

• Oversee alignment on, and subsequent delivery of, Minimum Viable Product into both virtual and physical verification and validation through life of Programme

• Drive cross squad resolution, ensuring timely escalation to Technical Group Leader

• Support study & Agile spike activities to solve complex engineering problems

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Essential:

• Automotive technical knowledge and experience of complex interactions, including technical analysis and decision-making

• Demonstrated understanding automotive technology with a level of technical depth into vehicle, system and component design, development and delivery, ability to interrogate and ratify incoming technical standards, system and component assumptions.

• 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

• 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

• Progressive thinking individual who takes a keen interest in new ideas and key industry developments

• Ability to embrace the Agile model and work effectively as a champion of Agile principles in practice

Key Interactions

• PGL (Program Group Lead) for the given zone

• PGL/TGL for interfacing zones

• STGL & VEM

• Engineering Delivery Director

• Technology Center Leads

• Architecture & Vehicle Programme Product Owners (POs)

• Lead Engineers

• Engineering Delivery

• Design

• External supplier / partner specialist technical collaboration as required to develop complex strategic technical proposals.