Project Engineer - Displays and HUD

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 Activities and Deliverables

• Technical assessments of Cockpit Electronics components (clusters, displays, HUD, HMI modules, domain controllers, input devices).
  Deliverable: Technical Assessment Report.
• Creation and maintenance of component specifications, interface documents, and engineering change documentation.
  Deliverable: Released documentation of MTS, DFMEA, DVP, 2D Drawings, 3D data within SAP, DFM, ECL.
• Support for build phases — including prototype, mule and VP builds — ensuring parts, software and configurations are validated and issues tracked.
  Deliverable: 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.
  Deliverable: 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, including test reports, risk registers, technical summaries and decision-making packs.
  Deliverable: Decision Matrix, DVP&R, ECRs.
• Tracking and reporting of delivery readiness, ensuring alignment with programme milestones and gateway deliverables.
  Deliverable: BDR, ER/RRL, ROR.
• Conducting technical benchmarking, technology assessments, and recommendations for Cockpit Electronics improvement or harmonisation.
  Deliverable: Benchmarking Reports, Commodity Strategy Documentations.
• Supporting cross-functional integration (UX/UI, Systems, Software, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Body Electronics, Chassis teams) as needed.
  Deliverable: Open Issues List and Tracking Documentation including minutes of meetings.

Requirements

• Engineering degree 2:1 or above.
• Ability to overcome cultural barriers.
• Demonstrate strong customer, team & supplier management skills.
• An ability to work effectively and calmly under pressure and to manage time effectively under tight and rigid deadlines.
• Have 5+ years of programme delivery experience in automotive electronics or mechatronics, including delivery across multiple development gateways.
• Be capable of end-to-end component & commodity software/feature delivery, covering requirements, supplier coordination, prototype build support, validation tracking, and launch readiness.
• Demonstrate strong abilities in issue management, including root-cause analysis with suppliers, risk escalation and driving cross-functional closure plans.
• Be proficient in planning and coordination, including BoM management, DFMEA creation and monitoring, DVP status tracking, commodity releases, change management and document control.
• Understand the interaction between mechanical, electrical, software and validation teams, ensuring alignment of timelines.
• Have demonstrable experience in working with tier-1 suppliers across global locations, ensuring technical alignment and traceability and managing design & development from concept through to delivery.
• Have experience managing offshore/nearshore engineering activities and ensuring consistent communication and quality outputs.
• Be strong in administrative rigour — meeting notes, actions, technical reporting — aligned to the customer's templates and compliance expectations.
• Have a working knowledge of systems (JIRA, TCM, JAMA/DOORS, SAP, Enovia / 3DX) and internal processes for gateway readiness and deliverable handover.
• Microsoft 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.