Geometric Design

REQ ID: 110463
JOB TITLE: Geometric Design & Integration Chapter Lead
SALARY: £56,600 - £70,000
POSTING END DATE:
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 TO EXPECT**

**Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities**:

- Lead the EP CAD “Community of Practice” ensuring consistent best practices are shared and applied across EP (e.g. GD &T, datum controls, mass & inertia, clash checks & BOM management). Ensure the necessary skills and knowledge are in place through mentoring and training. Act as a single point of contact for all new CAD processes (e.g. AVA), ensuring they are scoped and prioritised
- Provide technical leadership and resource for the delivery of Geometric Integration
- Develop the role out strategy for design processes such as MBD
- Provide specialist skills support either through training and / or deploying resource on a sprint-by-sprint basis
- Manage the development of apprentices through their early careers, ensuring structure personal development plans are in place and executed
- Lead a team of circa 12 engineers across multiple sites, based both on and offshore to deliver bespoke CAD support

**WHAT YOU’LL NEED**

**Essential**:

- Experience using CAD tools such as 3DEx / Catia
- Good knowledge of automotive industry, including competitor and market awareness
- An ability to communicate a technical vision to the wider team in order to drive toward a unified set of objectives
- Able to coach and mentor teams and individuals, engaging the larger teams in the transformation occurring within the business
- Ability to explain complex ideas, confidently presenting these to senior stakeholders using presentation or other tools as required
- Degree or relevant equivalent experience

**Desirable**:

- Strong verbal and written communication skills for reporting technical and business information across all levels in the organisation
- Strong leadership in the deployment of problem resolution methods
- In-depth knowledge CAD best practices (GD&T, MBD)
- Experience operating inside an Agile framework (SCRUM) is desirable

**SO WHY US?**

Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you’ll find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, a discounted car purchase and lease scheme for you and your family, membership of a competitive pension plan, private medical cover and performance related bonus scheme. As a manager, you’ll also be able to select one of our luxury premium vehicles to lease at a fraction of the cost. All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.

This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can split your time between working from home and in the office. At Jaguar Land Rover, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees with more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work, if suitable for their role. Further details can be discussed with the Hiring Manager at interview stage.

Jaguar Land Rover is committed to equal opportunity for all.