Wheel and Tyre Engineer - Jaguar Land Rover｜Meet.jobs

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What to expect

We have an exciting opportunity for an engineer to join the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Wheel and Tyre Core Team at Gaydon in the UK, as project engineer for wheels and tyres standards and research.

We offer interesting work within a friendly atmosphere in a flexible professional hard-working team, implementing a clear vision and strategy, which team members help to shape, giving everyone considerable responsibilities and recognition of their efforts, and credit for their successes.

The team impacts all JLR Vehicles, creating and owning the process for component delivery for wheels, tyres and puncture management systems. Being the knowledge holders for the components, the team interacts with multiple areas of the business, including attribute teams, manufacturing, design, marketing, research and regulation. The team also supports the introduction of new technologies and works extensively on forward model architectures.

Ideally you will have some knowledge of wheels and/or tyres development, and you must have some relevant experience with defining requirements or minimum standards, test procedures, failure mode analysis and quality management.

Any knowledge of areas of expertise affected by wheels and tyres, would be a bonus, as would knowledge of tyre and/or wheel manufacturing, wheel and tyre assembly, puncture management systems (PMS), or tyre pressure monitoring systems (TPMS).

The team has a proven track record of providing a wide range of training and personal development activities, both formal and informally. The team is well established and has a good reputation for technical expertise with genuine influence on shaping JLR's vehicles through the important role of wheels and tyres.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

* Create wheels, tyres, valves, assembly, PMS and TPMS requirements, standards, test case, test procedures and design rules
* Contribute and carry out design failure mode analysis (DFMEAs)
* Develop tools for use by wheel and tyre engineers
* Supporting relevant laboratory, rig, or on vehicle test and development activities
* Data analysis and report writing
* Continuously look for process improvements, efficiencies, cost reductions, quality improvements and developing capability to deliver commodities with aid of virtual or simulation techniques (CAE)
* Sharing knowledge and educating engineers outside the team on subject matters related to wheels and tyres

What you'll need

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential:
* Educated to at least degree level in a relevant engineering discipline, or equivalent experience
* Self-motivated and able to work to broad guidance
* Relevant experience with defining requirements or minimum standards, test procedures, failure mode analysis and quality management.
* Basic project management capabilities, managing personal tasks to meet all deliverables in a timely and effective manner
* To be customer focussed, constructively working with colleagues and customers, responding to their enquiries, in line with JLR's ‘customer first' and ‘purpose and creators code' principles

Desirable:
* Master level degree in a relevant mechanical engineering discipline such as Automotive or Motorsport Engineering, or equivalent experience
* Knowledge of wheels and/or tyres development, the various areas of the expertise affected by wheels and tyres, or tyre and/or wheel manufacturing, wheel and tyre assembly, puncture management systems (PMS), or tyre pressure monitoring systems (TPMS).
* Experience with, or knowledge of, bill of design, bill of process and failure mode analysis generation would be appreciated
* Knowledge of 6-Sigma tools and techniques (particularly process development and statistical methods)
* A good working knowledge of product definition, creation, and delivery processes in JLR