At a Glance
- Tasks: Analyse vehicle durability and loads, process data, and support testing.
- Company: Join Akkodis, a global leader in digital engineering and innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible working arrangements, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with a focus on collaboration and innovation.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the automotive industry with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Degree in Mechanical or Automotive Engineering; experience in durability analysis required.
The predicted salary is between 45000 - 55000 £ per year.
Akkodis is seeking an experienced Vehicle Durability & Loads Engineer to support the development and validation of vehicle durability requirements. You will process road-load and simulation data, develop duty cycles and load cases, and support virtual and physical durability testing. The role requires someone who can manage their own workload, challenge existing methods and turn complex data into practical engineering decisions.
Responsibilities
- Manage and prioritise the virtual durability workload.
- Process and analyse large RLDA and MATLAB datasets.
- Generate static load decks and support Level 1 and Level 2 requirements cascade.
- Develop vehicle, system and component-level duty cycles.
- Calculate, validate and deploy load cases to engineering teams.
- Perform fatigue calculations using damage coefficients.
- Define and support virtual, rig and vehicle durability tests.
- Analyse CAE simulation data and correlate results with physical testing.
- Front-load durability data to identify potential issues earlier in development.
- Review and improve durability methodologies, processes and procedures.
- Maintain damage-coefficient databases and produce durability reports.
Required experience
- Automotive durability, structural fatigue or vehicle-loads engineering.
- RLDA processing and road-load data management.
- Duty-cycle development and load-case deployment.
- Fatigue calculations, fatigue data and damage coefficients.
- Processing large engineering datasets using MATLAB.
- Interpreting CAE durability and structural simulation results.
- Developing or supporting rig and vehicle durability testing.
- Understanding of whole-vehicle dynamics and load transfer.
- Experience improving or challenging engineering methodologies.
- Ideally, approximately 10 years’ automotive industry experience.
Required skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
- Understanding of fatigue, durability and structural-loading principles.
- RLDA and MATLAB data analysis.
- CAE interpretation and physical-test correlation.
- Ability to translate vehicle targets into system and component requirements.
- Strong technical reporting and documentation.
- Able to manage work independently and deliver practical results.
- Collaborative approach when working with CAE, testing and commodity teams.
Education
- A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering or another closely related engineering discipline.
If you have experience in automotive durability, fatigue analysis, RLDA and vehicle-load development, please apply or contact me directly for further information.
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