EDS Lead Engineer

☞ Jaguar Land Rover

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Update day: 04-06-2024

Location: Gaydon West Midlands

Category: High Technology Mechanical / Technical Electrical / Electronics IT - Software

Industry: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing

Position: Mid-Senior level

Job type: Full-time

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REQ ID: 90981

JOB TITLE: EDS Lead Engineer

SALARY: £41,600 £54,100

POSTING END DATE: 30th June 2022

LOCATION: Gaydon

We’re re-examining our vehicles and what a vehicle means in the emerging world of automation, connectedness, electrification and the shared economy. New ideas, new technology, and new approaches to mobility are our business. Join a team of next generation thinkers.

What To Expect

The Opportunity

You will be working at the forefront of engineering at Jaguar Land Rover, responsible for the development of the newest optimised wiring harness architectures for all our future product platforms. Our team work collaboratively with engineers from across our business, as well as a wide range of technology partners, to create cutting edge designs for our future vehicle models. These enable our products to consistently deliver the best-in-class capabilities and experiences for which we are known.

In this role you will make use of your design skills and electrical work bench experience within the CATIA toolset, as well as JLR’s CAD standards and methodologies, to efficiently connect all of the electrical components integrated into our vehicles. This entails a collaborative mindset, interacting closely across departmental teams such as Body and Chassis Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing, Vehicle Engineering, etc.

Key Performance Indicators
  • Taking personal responsibility for role and deliverables.
  • Form effective working relationships with cross functional teams
  • Work well with people from diverse backgrounds e.g suppliers, business partners, agency staff and offshore/onsite engineers. Ability to react to change with flexibility and speed
  • Take ownership for resolving technical and geometrical issues around harness packaging
  • Vision to develop and improve processes and systems.
  • Compliance to JLD CAD Standards and REAL CAD.

 

Key Accountabilities And Responsibilities
  • Create compatible package solutions for Harness routing in almost every zone of the vehicle (40 eZones)
  • Creation of Parametric Harness routing including 12V, 48V and HV cables adhering to JLR CAD standards
  • ‘Design in context’ work ethic to ensure geometry compatibility with cross functional teams including Body, Trim, Powertrain, Chassis, Manufacturing, Service & Design.
  • Coordinate, present and report package status at Senior reviews
  • Secure packaging sign-off of installations from all stakeholders
  • Ensure all Harness packaging solutions meet the functional requirements & adhere to the keep out zones (SDS’s).
  • Ensure that harness routing complies to the JLR methodology and CAD standards.
  • Creation and maintenance of Electrical Design Solutions (DS’s) for a given programme(s) for Wiring Harnesses.
  • Highlighting & leading Geometrical incompatibilities involving Wiring Harnesses to Program and Vehicle Engineering teams for issue resolution
  • Scoring and status metric of CAD data progression using VEPS tool against virtual gateways
  • Escalation of any delivery shortfalls including programme gateway risks and programme assumption changes to Core teams.
  • Support and resolve any Wiring Harness package issues from Physical build events
  • Support Virtual Series countdown events, Manufacturing virtual builds, Program Go/No Go events, must resolves
  • Contribution and application of Bill of Design (BoD) and knowledge of Bill of Process (BOP) whilst designing Harnesses.
  • Team member in an Agile operating model for a given platform / program to deliver 3D geometry in an efficient yet timely manner.
  • Create change documentation including 2D Drawing mark-ups to support Harness industrialisation
  • Complete 3D geometry vs Physical harness checks

Key Interactions
  • All CoC’s
  • Manufacturing
  • Vehicle Grid team
  • Vehicle Engineering
  • Program teams
  • Module teams
  • Lead Engineers
  • Service
  • Harness suppliers
  • HMI
  • Design
  • Attribute teams

What You’ll Need

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential:
  • Certified Catia V5 / V6 user
  • 3D Experience (Enovia) and TeamCentre (Tce)
  • Harness routing experience using Electrical Workbench
  • Negotiation / trade off skills
  • Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred

Desirable:
  • HV Harness routing experience
  • AVA (parametric) modelling
  • Working in an Agile Structure
  • Bill Of Design and Bill of process knowledge
  • Harness manufacturing experience
  • Experience in Capital Harness
  • ECAD/MCAD alignment experience
  • Project Management / Team leadership experience

Personal Profile

Essential:
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Experience of presenting effectively to all levels of the business.
  • Proven ability to work within strict timing constraints
  • Resourceful, highly driven and self-motivated
  • Desirable:
  • Good communication skills
  • Experience in Team leadership

SO WHY US?

Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you’ll find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, a discounted car purchase and lease scheme for you and your family, membership of a competitive pension plan and performance related bonus scheme. All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.

This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can split your time between working from home and in the office. At Jaguar Land Rover, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees with more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work, if suitable for their role. Further details can be discussed with the Hiring Manager at interview stage.

Please be aware that we may close this vacancy for applications before the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of interest. We strongly advise you to submit your application as early as possible.

Jaguar Land Rover is committed to equal opportunity for all.
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Deadline: 19-07-2024

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