At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead vehicle integration, ensuring compatibility and driving technical solutions across teams.
- Company: Innovative automotive company focused on engineering excellence and real-world delivery.
- Benefits: Competitive hourly rate, collaborative environment, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role based in Gaydon with a focus on teamwork and problem-solving.
- Why this job: Shape the future of vehicle architecture and make a tangible impact in the automotive industry.
- Qualifications: Strong automotive knowledge, leadership skills, and experience with complex engineering challenges.
The predicted salary is between 35.93 - 35.93 £ per hour.
Vehicle Integration Leader - 37421085 - £35.93/hr umbrella rate
Do you have strong automotive technical knowledge with experience of complex interactions and decision-making across vehicle, system, and component design and delivery?
Step into a high-impact role where engineering excellence meets real-world delivery.
This company is seeking a confident Vehicle Integration Leader to shape how new and existing vehicle architectures come to life, ensuring ambitious technical targets are translated into practical, compatible solutions.
If coordinating complex engineering work, influencing decisions, and driving momentum across teams energise you, the Vehicle Integration Leader opportunity is built for you.
What You Will Do
- Act as the technical arbitrator and accountable leader for whole-vehicle integration, ensuring compatibility with GRID, commodity and system strategies, and functional targets as part of the wider Vehicle Engineering landscape.
- Lead group functional integration for your vehicle area, reducing complexity and enabling the most efficient technical solutions to land on time.
- Partner closely with the Vehicle Attribute Robustness team to drive embedded design quality, service requirements, and manufacturing needs from concept through to delivery.
- Progress vehicle technical data across CAD, DV, AIMS, build, test and releasing by aligning with groups and interfacing team leads.
- Oversee Minimum Viable Product delivery into both virtual and physical verification and validation across the programme lifecycle.
- Drive cross-group obstacle resolution, escalating technical blockers quickly through the appropriate process to support timely decision‑making.
What You Will Bring
- Automotive technical knowledge with strong experience of complex interactions and decision-changing across vehicle, system, and component design and delivery.
- Demonstrable ability to lead teams tackling intricate engineering problems using structured approaches such as 8D and/or Six Sigma.
- Strong written and verbal technical communication, including influencing and negotiation skills with a customer‑first mindset.
- Experience managing delivery against a complex set of programme technical deliverables, with comfort using Agile ways of working.
- A resilient, credible leadership style that can challenge stakeholders constructively and drive agreement through clarity and transparency.
This Vehicle Integration Leader role is a direct contribution to the company's goal of turning advanced vehicle engineering plans into dependable, measurable programme outcomes.
By ensuring functional and attribute target delivery, and by embedding quality into the technical data progression, the Vehicle Integration Leader helps support a disciplined, transparent delivery culture that values practical progress and collaborative problem‑solving.
Location
The Vehicle Integration Leader role is based in Gaydon.
Interested?
If the Vehicle Integration Leader position sounds like the next step in a role where leadership and delivery genuinely matter, apply now and take the opportunity to shape successful vehicle integration outcomes.
This role is Inside IR35.
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Vehicle Integration Leader employer: Jonathan Lee
Mazak is an excellent employer that values its employees by offering a supportive work culture and numerous benefits, including 25 days of holiday, life insurance, and an Aviva pension. Located in Worcester, this fast-paced factory role not only provides opportunities for personal growth and skill development but also fosters a collaborative environment where self-motivated individuals can thrive.
