Project Engineer - Antennae, USB, WLC and Sockets

Responsibilities

• Offering expert technical guidance across system/hardware design, component selection, feasibility analysis and resolution of complex engineering issues.
• Supporting programme delivery, ensuring supplier milestones and engineering deliverables are met in line with the customer’s internal expectations and gateway process.
• Managing supplier technical reviews, design validation activities, and ensuring compliance with relevant standards and customer requirements.
• Conducting technical analysis, documentation support, component readiness tracking and risk assessments.
• Acting as the primary interface for day‑to‑day delivery support, providing regular status updates, escalation management and coordination between the customer’s engineering sub‑teams.
• Ensuring that all activities are carried out in alignment with the customer’s Cockpit Electronics technical roadmap, ensuring consistency of approach and reuse across vehicle programmes.

Key Deliverables

• Technical Assessment Report.
• Component specifications, interface documents, and engineering change documentation.
• Released documentation of MTS, DFMEA, DVP, 2D Drawings, 3D data within SAP, DFM, ECL.
• Support for build phases—prototype, mule and VP builds—ensuring parts, software and configurations are validated and issues tracked (RAT update, phased releases in SAP, PRs as required, BDRs, RRLs).
• Supplier coordination including design reviews, technical sign‑off, 8D problem solving, and validation evidence collection (RFI/RFQ, hardware specifications, software specifications, supplier DFMEA, design reviews, timing plans, 8D reports, QCR, DVP&R, open issue list, boundary diagrams).
• Preparation of engineering documentation—test reports, risk registers, technical summaries and decision‑making packs (decision matrix, DVP&R, ECRs).
• Tracking and reporting of delivery readiness, ensuring alignment with programme milestones and gateway deliverables (BDR, ER/RRL, ROR).
• Conducting technical benchmarking, technology assessments, and recommendations for Cockpit Electronics improvement or harmonisation (benchmarking reports, commodity strategy documentations).
• Supporting cross‑functional integration (UX/UI, systems, software, functional safety, cybersecurity, body electronics, chassis teams) as needed—open issues list and tracking documentation including minutes of meetings.

Requirements

• Engineering degree 2:1 or above.
• Ability to overcome cultural barriers.
• Strong customer, team & supplier management skills.
• Capable of working effectively under pressure and managing time under tight deadlines.
• 5+ years of programme delivery experience in automotive electronics or mechatronics, including delivery across multiple development gateways.
• Capability of end‑to‑end component & commodity software/feature delivery (requirements, supplier coordination, prototype build support, validation tracking, launch readiness).
• Strong issue management skills, including root‑cause analysis with suppliers, risk escalation and driving cross‑functional closure plans.
• Proficient in planning and coordination (BoM management, DFMEA creation/monitoring, DVP status tracking, commodity releases, change management, document control).
• Understanding of interaction between mechanical, electrical, software and validation teams to align timelines.
• Experience working with tier‑1 suppliers across global locations, ensuring technical alignment and traceability, managing design & development from concept to delivery.
• Experience managing offshore/nearshore engineering activities while maintaining consistent communication and quality outputs.
• Strong administrative rigour—meeting notes, actions, technical reporting—aligned to customer templates and compliance expectations.
• Working knowledge of systems (JIRA, TCM, JAMA/DOORS, SAP, Enovia/3DX) and internal processes for gateway readiness and deliverable handover.
• Competent in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio).

Benefits

• Health cash plan, following successful probation.
• 5% employer pension contributions.
• Hybrid working.
• 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays.
• Generous absence cover.
• Cycle 2 Work scheme.
• Octopus EV scheme.

The Company is open to considering alternative engagement arrangements, including a self‑employed basis, subject to mutual agreement.