NVH Engineer

NVH Engineer – Automotive/Motorcycle

We have a new opportunity for a NVH Engineer to join a leading Motorcycle brand in their state-of-the-art Technology Centre in Leicestershire.

Role Summary

You will be joining the Development Team helping to deliver the NVH requirements, you'll play a key role working closely within the Test Team.

What you’ll be doing

• Take acoustic and vibration measurements, check the resulting data, carry out appropriate analyses and generate reports based on the findings. In order to do this, you must:
• Be conversant with NVH instrumentation types and be able to select the appropriate instrumentation for the task specified
• Be capable of fitting instrumentation to the item to be tested
• Be able to acquire, process and present data using Siemens Test Lab software and hardware.
• Conduct pass-by and other tests to ensure that motorcycles meet statutory and regulatory requirements regarding noise emissions;
• Carry out correlation testing to validate the results of CAE NVH simulations
• You may need to spend brief periods working overseas, and off-site to support testing at facilities.

What we’re looking for

• The ability to troubleshoot and innovatively problem solve to rectify NVH and other issues as appropriate
• Proven expertise in NVH development ideally within automotive or motorcycle environment
• A great communicator and team player
• Strong attention to detail, organisational and time management skills, with the ability to work to tight deadlines and to go the extra mile when necessary
• A good understanding of NVH and identifying noise and vibration issues, developing processes as well as confident working with engineering data to put forward design recommendations
• Flexible and agile approach, embracing changes that arise

Qualifications, Skills and Experience required

• Engineering Degree in relevant discipline or equivalent
• Significant powertrain NVH experience ideally within automotive or motorcycle environment
• Able to correlate test data with simulation results
• Experience with RLDA instrumentation (DC accelerometers, LVDTs, strain gauges, rugged loggers )
• CAE correlation for modal response, transfer path analysis and acoustic transmission loss
• Awareness of Python with some basic level of programming is preferred
• An awareness of acquiring and checking Road-Load data

Please note that you will need a UK passport / valid UK Settlement status or a Visa that does not require any sponsorship to apply for this role.

Optic Group is a specialist Design Services consultancy representing clients in the UK within the Automotive sector.