Head of Suspension

Job no:
**509897**
Work type:
**Full Time - Permanent**

**Location**:
**Gaydon, Warwickshire**
Categories:
**Chassis**

Aston Martin is built upon the passion, skill and creativity of the people who dedicate their working lives to the most iconic brand in the world. Every intricate stitch beautifully expressed line, and the stirring noise of our engines is a manifestation of the desire and collective spirit to create the most beautiful cars: the soul of Aston Martin made real.

Job Purpose:
The role is for a Manager with the responsibility for technical leadership of the Suspension & Steering team, and to provide cross functional leadership in the development of the wider Chassis & Vehicle Dynamics department.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

- Lead the day-to-day management of the Chassis Suspension & Steering team, responsible for components and systems from early concept through to current production.
- Lead component and system Quality, Cost and Delivery target setting, compatibility and adherence.
- Manage the design, development and delivery of the following Chassis Systems: Suspension, Steering, Subframes, Powertrain Mounts and Wheels & Tyres.
- Create system archetypes and component development roadmaps for future vehicle cycle planning.
- Ensure technical best practice documentation, design manuals and testing procedures are appropriately created and maintained to ensure consistency and robust failure mode avoidance.
- Ensure all failure mode avoidance activities, commodity planning, design progression and DVP testing is completed to achieve Final Engineering Sign Off in line with timing constraints.
- Achieve business plan investment and piece cost targets.
- Manage the welfare and development of the Suspension & Steering

Qualification & Experience:

- Extensive industry experience in Chassis Engineering and Development within an automotive OEM or automotive components supplier.
- Proven experience of directly or indirectly leading an engineering team in a highly demanding working environment.
- Strong interest in Vehicle Dynamics.
- Good working knowledge of Performance, Durability and NVH attributes their impact on Chassis Systems
- Excellent knowledge of testing and development processes, GD&T, FUSA, DFM & tooling principles, appreciation for VFM.
- Excellent knowledge of Engineering Quality tools such as D-FMEA, 6-sigma, 8D Problem Solving.
- Good working knowledge of MISSION or an equivalent Product Creation System such as GPDS, FPDS, AMPC
- Good working knowledge of Chassis CAE tools (ADAMS, VI-Grade, MATLAB), tyre modelling, component rig testing and experience of system development utilising SIL, HIL and driver-in-loop simulations.
- High level knowledge of instrumentation and measurement processes for objective chassis performance to cascade to system and component targets
- Experience of delivering multiple vehicle dynamics development projects, especially high-performance road vehicles.
- Expertise on FEA, load cases and durability analysis
- Engineering degree in an appropriate engineering discipline.
- Chartered engineer

Behaviours:

- Comfortable working to deadlines and holding others to account
- Able to influence others - even when direct reporting lines are not present
- Creative and courageous to enable achievement of aggressive company targets High level of presentation skills
- High level of presentation skills

Belong at Aston Martin

We understand that the incredible beauty, craft and art that defines an Aston Martin comes from the inclusion of our amazing people.

Advertised**:24 Apr 2023 **GMT Daylight Time
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