Technical Principal Engineer - HVAC

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Technical Principal Engineer – HVAC

Location:Falkirk

Come join Alexander Dennis on our mission to save the planet. We are transforming public transport globally by designing, manufacturing, and servicing greener, more eco-friendly, buses and coaches.

Our people are our biggest asset, making us the hugely successful company we are. We are transforming how we work, offering team members more flexibility around how they live and work.

What does that mean for you?

• Generous salary package – we reward our people at the level they deserve
• A half day every Friday. Yes, a long weekend, every weekend. Giving you more time at the weekend to do the things you love with the people you love
• A 37-hour working week, with flexible working options, giving you that much needed work/life balance
• Annual leave entitlement which increases with tenure
• Pension scheme to help you save for the future
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme which offers practical, impartial support on issues impacting your life
• Cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership, and regular meditation sessions as your health and wellbeing is important to us.
  
  

Interested and want to find out more? Check out our YouTube channel here!

Your Dream Role

• An exciting opportunity for a Technical Principal Engineer join our successful, international business. You’ll lead, manage and coach the HVAC team to team to design, develop, verify, and maintain vehicle system designs
• HVAC & Cooling Systems include Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, Powertrain cooling (combustion engine cooling, charge air cooling, oil cooling and all required ancillaries’ systems cooling and or/heating) as well as Electric powertrain cooling and/or heating (axle drive, batteries etc).
• Provide technical authority and ownership for the defined areas of expertise, technical specialism, system, and sub-system responsibility.
• Responsible for the completion of Statements of Work and High-Level System Reviews. Ensure effective use of on-shore and off-shore engineers and design partners across all projects to define, deliver and verify design requirements with sign-off through DFMEA, design reviews, vehicle testing and supplier approval processes.
• Responsible for approving and ensuring that design requirements are captured, DFMEAs and design reviews are planned and executed, and any subsequent actions are managed through a Design Verification Plan to completion and sign-off.
• Responsible for resolving escalated engineering risks or defining mitigating actions as appropriate in defined areas of responsibility.
• Ensure common system designs, interfaces and principles are applied consistently across all systems, platforms, and territories. Promote the re-use of parts and modular design philosophies. Define and deliver process and toolchain improvements to benefit the business.
• Ensure the upfront development and testing of new designs to identify issues and improvements at the earliest opportunity and address them prior to product introduction.
• Contribute to and promote the application of the Engineering Product Development process and ensure teams demonstrate compliance with the deliverables through design records and documentation.
• Contribute to and promote the application of the Systems Engineering process and take responsibility for the innovative development, management, and integration of systems across platforms and projects. Ensuring all requirements and specifications are defined, approved, and achieved through sign-off.
• Responsible for the resolution of all technical issues that arise in defined areas of responsibility. Interface directly with internal and external customers on technical issues and requirements. Ensuring high customer satisfaction through safe, reliable, and fit for purpose designs.
• Prepare and present technical documentation and papers for review and communication with key stakeholders.
• Lead the definition of and compliance with relevant internal and international standards, best practice, and legislation.
• Responsible for ensuring that design guides, certification requirements and vehicle compliance are defined and fulfilled.
• Ensure relevant activities are undertaken with internal and external design partners or suppliers to achieve quality, cost, and delivery targets for defined areas of responsibility.
• Responsible for the allocation of resources against projects and work activities and the development of external partnerships to increase capacity and capability.
• Provide leadership, development, coaching and mentoring for a team of direct reports.
  
  

What you will bring:

• Educated to degree level in Engineering or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline
• Experience in a leadership level HVAC role
• A self-starter who takes personal pride in all work from start to finish.
• Willing to travel between UK sites as required.
• A detailed understanding of vehicle design.
• Software experience (such as Solidedge) is beneficial, simulation software (Kuli) preferred.
• Relationship building will come easily to you, with the ability to influence stakeholders across all levels of seniority.
• Strive for continuous improvement – always looking for ways to do things better.
• Driven, curious, with a positive attitude and a can-do approach to problem solving.
• You will thrive on being busy and be an expert multi-tasker.
• Generally, someone who is approachable, with a strong work ethic and a desire to succeed.
  
  

Next steps:

If this sounds like you, and you are interested in coming ‘aboard’, then we would love to hear from you. Alongside uploading your CV, please share a short covering letter detailing why you’re interested and why we should hire you!

• Recommend a Friend is applicable for this role.
  
  

As this role is unlikely to meet UKVI criteria for sponsorship under the skilled worker route, you will be required to have the right of work in the UK from the proposed commencement date.

Please note – if you are an internal applicant, you must notify your line manager of your application.

We care deeply about being inclusive and we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.