Automotive Engineer

Salary: £48,000 – £60,000 per year

Belcan provides engineering, consultancy and workforce solution services to some of the world’s biggest organisations, covering industries from aerospace and defence through to heavy equipment and power generation.

Belcan are recruiting an Automotive Engineer to join our in-house team in Runcorn.

Outside IR35

Automotive Engineer Profile:

The Automotive engineer will help assist the Head of Function in delivering solutions to various customers and provide a good technical guidance in vehicle integration. The candidate should have a passion to help drive forward innovate ideas and follow them through to implementation, whilst continually maintaining quality and service requirements.

The role has a strong focus on engineering delivery and quality.

Amongst other things the successful candidate will be comfortable working in an Engineering Service environment and will be able to balance the technical responsibilities inherent within the role, with the commercial and project timescale associated with delivery.

Principle Responsibilities:

• Customer
  • Be able to interact well with both internal and external stakeholders and communicate technical issues; propose solutions for features which do not meet the requirements etc.
  • Interacts with customer technical focal points as required

• Delivery
  • On-Time, On-Budget delivery in accordance with customer quotations
  • Adherence to the Belcan QMS

• P&L
  • Identify cost savings (internal & customer)
  • Identify change
  • Manages change and can articulate its occurrence

• Resource / Capability
  • Responsible for technical quality of personal output
  • Helps support other team members as directed by Team Leader/Management
  • Helps support Team Leader/Management with aspects such as capability development, QMS related quality issues etc.

• Offshore
  • Supports offshore tasks as directed by Team Leader

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Degree Qualified in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• Must be highly proficient in the use of various software packages and systems and demonstrate a sharp ability to pick up new processes and systems quickly. Software such as Solidworks, CATIA, etc
• Must be a highly capable communicator both written and spoken.
• Must be an excellent team player with a tenacious and resilient attitude to drive the interface with the customer and the various engineering and support functions of the business.
• Appreciates and can articulate the value of the engineering lifecycle and the relationship to the Lifecycle Management Process. Support and participate in technical reviews to ensure product viability.
• Understand the importance of Health and Safety requirements and can articulate the need to ensure that the product is acceptably safe and that product and system safety assessments form part of the design process.
• Must have an understanding of regulatory and statutory requirements of the product.
• Has an appreciation of the requirement that the environmental impact of our activities is sustainable in the long term.
• Appreciates the need for a supportability engineering process to sustain the long term viability of the business. Understands that supportability goes beyond basic design, maintenance and operability requirements.
• Experience in vehicle integration is preferred but not essential, a good sound mechanical engineering background is key to the success of this role.

Key Outputs/ Deliverables

• Design of components and parts
• Build and manage complex 3D models and 2D manufacturing drawings
• Creating design layouts for design solutions
• Accountability for cradle to grave ownership of a product or design
• Vehicle integration work
• Obtain and implement specifications accurately and effectively.
• Produce, where required, engineering evidence to back detail design decisions in the form of technical reports, specifications and studies
• Clear evidence of personal tracking of own quality and cost performance

Key Interpersonal/Behavioural Skills

• Achieves and sustains a standard of excellence in drive and commitment
• Demonstrates Customer Focus through forging partnerships that shape customer expectations.
• Supports a developmental environment that supports the development of others
• Ensure effective application of process in assigned areas, including developing the detail design, modifications and improvements in accordance with relevant standards, best practice and developing needs
• Develops solutions to requirements
• Delivers cost effective data to budget and programme

Note: The preceding description is presented only as a matter of information and occupational guidance and includes all such other reasonable tasks, duties, and responsibilities as management may deem necessary for successful performance.

This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan