Powertrain Lead Test Planner

2 months ago

Whitley Bay, United Kingdom Jaguar Land Rover Full time

REQ ID: 113600
JOB TITLE: Powertrain Lead Test Planner
SALARY: £42,500 - £56,100
POSTING END DATE: 10/03/23
LOCATION: Whitley

We’re re-examining our vehicles and what a vehicle means in the emerging world of automation, connectedness, electrification and the shared economy. New ideas, new technology, and new approaches to mobility are our business. Join a team of next generation thinkers.

**What you’ll do**

This role sits within Engineering Operations (EO10), specifically the Centralised Build & Test Planning Team. The department manages test submissions from a range of customer teams, through to internal and external facility allocation. Tests encompass the validation of Powertrain systems from base calibration through certification and legislative compliance testing at component, subsystem and system level.

The main activity for the role is to support the Manager LL6 - Powertrain Test Operations to facilitate short and long term forecast of test facilities and management of the fixed internal and external facilities under test to enable customer test activity across current and future programs. This will include ownership of programme level strategy development, identifying prospective test facilities, project kick off, development of robust plans, coordination, reporting, governance (aligned to planning gateway and milestone timings) and control of work and team activity.

As part of our mission to deliver world class facilities, the team is required to conform with regulatory and certification standards. The role requires you to adhere to and generate processes, risk assessments and future strategy plans to provide the quality, capability and capacity required, in a safe environment, within agreed timelines. It also involves devising streamlined processes and facilitating continuous improvement activities within EO10 in addition to proactively managing programme scheduling risks in order to ensure that productive output is maintained.

**The Opportunity**
- Work with internal customer groups to ensure adherence and produce test plan forecast for facilities
- Deliver annual and long-term budgeting through interrogation and management of customer requests
- Identify use case for future development of test facilities and reduce costs
- Produce and agree baseline plan for facilities
- Support delivery of test plan through effective scheduling onto test rigs (both internal / external)
- Monitor and report on adherence / conformity to synthetic timing in accordance with agreed schedules
- Monitor utilisation of external hire facilities and produce analytics
- Manage and foster development of directly reporting C-grade engineers
- Support internal process documentation maintenance and governance (JLR Way)
- To support continuous improvement activity with the goal of improving test efficiency and/or product quality
- To support activities that result in a positive outcome from any audit, e.g., IATF TS16949, OHSAS18001, ISO 14001
- Undertake any other work as directed by manager in connection with their job as may be requested

**What you’ll need**

**Essential**:

- Long
- and short-term test strategy development with a pragmatic approach
- Experience with project planning tools such as Wrike and data analysis using Tableau

Awareness in managing budget and cost management techniques
- Managing employee(s) looking after day-to-day interactions and activities with the customer team
- Experience or qualification in Project planning, management and control
- Able to work independently, as well as achieve the full benefits of collective effort from a wider team
- Clear and confident communication with senior management team
- Ability to maintain focus under pressure with resilience and structured approach towards problem solving
- Proactive attitude and willingness to learn new systems and processes
- Ability to accurately and concisely present complex ideas or project issues to a diverse audience
- Customer-first attitude with a passion for continuous improvement
- Initiating ideas and solutions to save cost, time and effort of the wider business
- Ability to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience

Comfortable Presenting at all levels of the business in various forums
- A full UK driving license with less than 6 penalty points, no disqualification

Able to develop and maintain strong stakeholder/customer relationships both internally and externally

Able to manage and develop team members

**Desirable**:

- Technical expertise and experience of test facility and vehicle electrification component / ICE testing
- Experienced or trained in Agile methodologies, Six Sigma, Black Belt and Green Belt Training and certification
- Experience with IATF16949, TS16949 or ISO9001 standards and requirements
- Educated to Degree level in a Planning, Systems, Mechanical, Electrical/Electronic or related field
- Knowledge of Python, SQL or other API to sup

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