Job Description

Position Description:

The role is supporting the Manager in Powertrain Test Operations in the short- and long-term planning and utilisation of the external test facilities 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 of cross functional stakeholders, reporting, governance (aligned to planning gateway and milestone timings) and control of work and team activity.

The company has outlined its intentions through the Reimagine strategy to be fully electric across the four brands identified within the House of Brands initiative to deliver the modern luxury vision.

Powertrain Test Operations support the planning, building and testing of the future propulsion systems prior to go into Manufacturing.

Skills Required:

• Experience in developing long- and short-term test strategies.
• Experience with project planning tools and delivering against a budget.
• Technical expertise and experience of test facility and vehicle electrification component testing

Experience Required:

• Deliver long-term budgeting through management of customer requests and ensure short-term spend is controlled through robust change management.
• Work with the customer team to identify the future technology roadmap for development of external test facilities.
• Work with test operations team to ensure clean handover from the planning phase to delivery phase.
• Communicating any risks against the plan and taking feedback to drive process improvement, adherence to standards.
• Support delivery of test plan through effective scheduling onto external test facilities to ensure efficient utilisation of resources.
• Monitor and report on adherence / conformity to synthetic timing in accordance with agreed schedules at internal showcases.
• Support internal process documentation maintenance and governance.
• Support continuous improvement activity with the goal of improving test efficiency and/or product quality.
• Utilising root cause analysis techniques such as 8D and 5 Why.

Experience Preferred:

• Experienced or trained in Agile methodologies.
• Six Sigma qualification.
• Experience with IATF16949, TS16949 or ISO9001 standards and requirements
• Experience in utilising Tableau and/or creating metrics.
• Experience in using JIRA

Additional information:

Hybrid working. Whitley/Gaydon

Must have RTW in UK

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