Bertrandt is an independent and international development service provider with long years of automotive expertise. With cross-industry know-how and a holistic understanding of systems and products, we create technological solutions at any stage of the product development process. We deal with a focus on hot topics such as digitalization, e-mobility and autonomous systems, mainly for the automotive, aerospace and mechanical engineering sectors, and consistently facilitate the development of tailored solutions in these areas. Our goal: to accelerate technological progress and make a relevant contribution to a sustainable future. We work on this every day – with around 14,000 employees at more than 50 sites worldwide.
We are supporting various customers worldwide in automotive electrical and electronics systems development. We are recruiting for an experienced automotive resident engineer for Body in White Upper Structures and Closures supporting the customer on-site.
The role involves project management - interfacing with design, manufacturing, purchasing and other technical departments at the customer and interfacing with remote Bertrandt solution development teams.
Your responsibilities
- Take a lead role in the development and coordination of upper body structures and closures sub-system designs for new vehicle models
- Lead communication between Bertrandt teams and customer departments during design development, release, prototype and manufacturing ramp up phases
- Plan and lead design review, status reporting meetings and attend appropriate customer led meetings
- Maintain status for functional, weight, cost, craftmanship and quality targets using customer templates
- Liaise with stakeholders and suppliers to minimize complexity and tooling investment
- Collaborate with customer departments to achieve surface, package and manufacturing feasibility
- Communicate CAE feedback on attribute performance and requirements for additional analyses
- Report and interpret results of tolerance analyses and provide input to craftmanship Gap and Rad Plan
- Support DFMEA and identification of SC & CCs
- Coordinate bid specifications for bought-out components/ assemblies
- Maintain product development process look ahead and deliverables planning
- Prioritise timely & accurate delivery of data to support product development project milestones
- Support engineering release and change management processes as well as resolution of pre-production build issues
- Interact with project team members in the UK, Germany and other locations as required
