Body Panels Design Engineer

Position Title: Body Panels Design Engineer

Duration: Contract

Location: Hybrid Working - 3-4 days on Woking, Surrey

Essential Criteria:

• Experience delivering body panels systems / body in white to meet design specifications and styling intentions
• Releasing experience / production release and up-issue experience.
• Post release project phase experience (physical build phase and test phase experience)
• Build issues resolution experience (prototype and production)
• Ensure components and assemblies adhere to applicable industry and business standards
• Supporting problem solving activities during virtual and physical builds.
• Assess all engineering prototypes to determine any associated issues or risks, mitigating when, and where found.
• Estimate cost limits and budgets for new designs.
• Represent the department in design reviews and during test and development activities if required
• Ensure components and assemblies adhere to applicable internal, industry, business and where applicable legislative standards and requirements.
• Co-ordinate own design work to deliver timely design releases and meeting all design for manufacture input from supplier.
• Experience in managing cross functional teams
• Experience using CAD viewing software suites
• Carbon Fibre / Composite experience

Nice to Have Criteria:

• Previous Client experience is highly desirable although not essential.
• Maintain and manage engineering records and designs
• Maintenance and update of the section book
• Ensuring responsible designs meet legal compliance
• Work Package Management
• Design Sizing Analysis
• Sub system load analysis
• Joints and interface design
• Materials selection
• Fixing selection justification with appropriate bolt calculations
• Carbon Fibre Design and Manufacture
• DFMEA delivery
• Creation and Management of Engineering Tech Spec.
• Experience in OEM DVP&R
• DFM and DFA delivery
• Pedestrian Protection and Legal Requirements
• Engineering to Commercial Constraints & Commercial Management
• Deliver Engineering Change