Technical Leader

Job Title: Mechanical Design Leader

Location: Rugby

Salary: £40,000 to £45,000 / annum

Job Type: Permanent

The Role

This role will involve the candidate to complete technical solution to be provided to meet / exceed customer expectations within the companies timing and cost constraints. Utilizes planning, resource and task management skills and directs engineering staff in successful implementation of project assignments.

Duties and responsibilities:

• To manage and monitor complex projects to ensure they are running to specification, on time and to budget

• To plan, organize, assign, review and evaluate the work of the engineering project team

• To analyse information and assess the results enabling the effective implementation of solutions to complex problems

• To create quality supporting data to demonstrate productivity, resources, and facility output

• To promptly report probable and actual process changes to reduce the potential cost of manufacture

• Capable of making autonomous decisions based on experience and project requirements.

• Responsible to drive and understand customer specifications both corporate and plant. Customer specifications are adhered to/or signed customer deviation received.

• Responsible to work with customer to finalize design requirements, reviews and approvals throughout design phases, manufacturing, and completion.

• Responsible for the solution Design, volume, quality, Risk Assessment, PFMEA, Safety & CE Risk Assessment and MFMEA.

• Work with the Technical Leader to ensure cross functional communication is taking place when there’s a “process change” that affects engineering and/or other departments.

The Candidate

Mandatory skills

• Degree in Engineering or Mechanical Design

• Considerable experience within the Automotive/Manufacturing industry (eg. JLR)

• Ability to design tooling for the BIW Automotive Sector including welding & riveting and all other joining.

• Good working knowledge of CAE programs including Catia, Solidwork, Vision MockUp etc

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office 2013 particularly Excel & Powerpoint

• Knowledge of FEA and stress analysis.

Desired Skills/Abilities

• Knowledge of Jaguar Land Rover’s working practices and procedures/specification

• Good organizational and planning skills; ability to delegate tasks and reassign work as required

• Strong knowledge of JLR specification.