Chief Design Engineer

2 weeks ago

Washington, United Kingdom Kelly Services Full time

**Chief Design Engineer**:

- Tyne and Wear_
Our client is one of the UKs leading Automotive Engineering companies and they are looking for an experienced Chief Design Engineer to join their growing team.
**Main Purpose of Role**:
Leadership and growth of the Design department, responsible for ensuring design capability and capacity to suit ongoing business needs.
**Key Activities**:

- Ensure effective department organisation structure with appropriate resource levels and skills, workload planning, clarity of roles and responsibilities including recruitment as required
- Ensure sufficient departmental tools are available especially around CAD, PLM and Analysis capabilities
- Technically supervise and support department activities, both on customer and internal projects
- Contribute to the Engineering & Business Management teams
- Support business and project planning and budgeting
- Provide coaching and leadership in technical skills and personal development
- Ensure quality standards are met and improvements planned to maintain customer satisfaction levels
- Prepare and present technical papers and presentations
- Key contribution to the technical and strategic direction of the business taking into consideration market, legislative and customer trends
- Establish relationships with suppliers, academic institutions, and external resource providers
- Provide a professional and technically good interface with customers and supplier as required to support business development and project activities
- Undertake any other duties of which the knowledge, skills and experience required fall within a post holder's position in the company.

**Education/Qualifications Required**:

- A good honours Degree (2:1) in an appropriate engineering discipline
- Professional qualification such as CEng with IMechE, IEE or similar is desirable

**Experience Required**:

- 10-15 years of industry experience
- Electric motors, transmissions and/or power electronics is ideal
- Highly dynamic or rotating machines is desirable
- Automotive, commercial vehicles or rail sectors is desirable especially within transmission and powertrain systems
- Working at or with OEMs or as Tier 1 supplier is desirable
- Extensive experience in a design function including in depth use of 3D and 2D CAD and CAE tools
- Experience in NVH techniques would be useful
- Lead or management responsibility within technical projects especially within a design function
- Working with APQP and ISO9001 processes
- Manufacturing and assembly processes across components, powertrain and vehicle levels
- Project experience across the full New Product Development process including with suppliers, prototype testing and series production

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