Job Description

A leading premium automotive business and leading to move towards electric autonomous vehicles.

THE OPPORTUNITY

This is a great opportunity for a Chassis System Architect to join the System Engineering team of the Steering, Wheels and Tyres (SWaT) function. Chassis performance can be considered as a combination of longitudinal, lateral and vertical movement. This role represents lateral performance and will meet regularly in a higher-level squad composed of the partner roles from other functions to guide and monitor chassis architecture development.

WHAT TO EXPECT

As a Chassis System Architect, you will be responsible for setting targets for each of the function\'s sub-teams and ownership of overall system. This involves consideration of all the ways of meeting a requirement and selecting an option after collecting and analysing implications. There are several supporting analysis teams across Chassis that will be called upon to evaluate options and support the process.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with all attribute & feature stakeholders to elicit program specific targets.

• Lead technical decomposition of these targets, supported by the System Chapter Lead Architect & analysis teams, to create compatible sub-system targets and iterate with attribute owners.

• Construct system solutions, staying within commodity strategy limits wherever possible.

• Receive and evaluate all requirements and targets relating to SWaT commodities. Resolve conflicts before confirming with commodity owners.

• Collect and cascade targets to neighbouring solution architects where SWaT (steering, handling and lateral motion) requirements depend on neighbouring functions. his includes kinematics and compliance (K&C) target trading.

• Negotiate with and support other chassis solution architects where cross-functional solutions are required.

• Ensure that system level testing is completed and reported according to the design verification plan.

• Knowledge of chassis systems (technology selection, sizing, active vs passive choices)

• Good understanding of vehicle systems (Tuning experience in Vehicle Dynamics, Steering, Tyre or Kinematics and Compliances)

• Knowledge of automotive product development (V-Cycle) from concept to launch completion.

• Previous experience of leading the resolution of business, technical and process issues within a Project Team environment.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with influencing and engagement skills.

• Capability to layout and present complex problems (and potential solutions) in an easy-to-understand way for a diverse audience. Able to articulate customer and business impacts clearly.

• Knowledge of root cause analysis techniques (e.g. Six Sigma, 5 Whys, Fishbone, 8D etc)

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