Project Engineer (Automotive Lighting) in Royal Leamington Spa

Location: Royal Leamington Spa based with regular travel to the customer site (North West)

Area: Electrical Engineering (Lighting)

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the lighting project across engineering, production and supplier teams.
• Manage task distribution within the EDAG project team, ensuring smooth collaboration and clear responsibilities.
• Serve as the technical interface to the customer, including onsite support if issues arise during vehicle assembly.
• Monitor and track project timelines, milestones and deliverables.
• Manage cross-functional teams from concept to launch.
• Work closely with design and engineering teams to integrate lighting solutions into vehicle designs for oncoming vehicles.
• Expertise in selecting and optimizing lighting technologies.
• Ensuring compliance with OEM standards.
• Achieving aesthetic and functional objectives.
• Deliver exterior lighting commodity plan to achieve on-time program milestones with 100% design release adherence.
• Manage supplier design and validation activities.
• Support ECU software integration and vehicle validation, enabling 100% functional compliance across ECU networks.
• Coordinate R48, FMVSS 108 certification and on-road validation.
• Own and deliver the commodity plan to quality, cost and time.
• Liaise with OEM Engineering /Manufacturing departments throughout the development and launch process.
• Achieve all certifications vehicle and components requirement.
• Lead suppliers to assist in concept/production ready design & development requirements.
• Manage product launch till J1+90.
• Ensure all appropriate standards and requirements are met throughout the development process.
• Resolve issues with component and sub-system engineering and vehicle attribute teams, to develop designs that meet targets.
• Contribute to the development of product specification books, test plans, DVP&R, DFMEA, Control Plans and Quality Assurance requirements.
• Identify risks, initiate corrective actions and proactively solve issues throughout the project lifecycle.
• Conduct product evaluation and design reviews during prototype and pre-production development phases.
• Develop prototypes for virtual and physical verification testing, including field testing.
• Ensure all program targets, including Piece Cost, ED&D Budget, Timing, Weight and Quality, are met.
• Other tasks as assigned by your manager.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of automotive lighting systems, standards and validation processes.
• Experience working with OEMs or Tier 1 suppliers in the automotive industry.
• Proven project coordination or team leadership experience in an automotive environment.
• Degree educated in relevant field. ECUK registration would be beneficial.
• Minimum five years of related Project Engineer experience within the automotive lighting industry.
• Experience of CATIA V5, PLM system and electrical documentation.
• Effective teamwork skills in a global team environment.
• Effective in solving quality challenges.
• Automotive Product Development Processes (V-model).
• High level of analytical ability, where problems are unusual and difficult.
• Proven body engineering experience within a matrix organization.
• MS-Office proficiency.
• Willingness to travel to customer location as required, local and global.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with German as a plus.

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