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Role: Motor Design Engineer – Electric Drives Group
Company:  Global Automotive
Job Type: Permanent
Salary:  Competitive and excellent benefits package
Location: West Midlands

An exciting opportunity to join a world-class team responsible for delivering 10 million high-performance brushless motor-drive units per year for automotive electric steering. The company is one of the world’s largest producers of electric steering systems supplying a wide range of vehicle manufacturers .

The design of electric steering systems is extremely challenging requiring safety-critical servo-drive performance at automotive costs. The company leads the field in many areas of design and research, and employs cutting-edge motor design technologies such as segmented stator assemblies, sensorless control and advanced noise reduction.

This is a very fast-paced sector requiring advanced product-design and problem-solving skills for programmes with short design cycle times and high production volumes. The role involves mechanical design of electric motors to achieve optimised manufacturability to demanding safety and quality standards.

What you’ll do

“ Design and create 3D models of subcomponents and assemblies for safety-critical electric motors
“ Carry out geometric tolerancing and create 2D drawings for manufacture
“ Support dFMEA activities
“ Deploy relevant design, development and problem solving tools to achieve ‘Right First Time’ solutions
“ Support TRW in-house motor manufacturing to improve and maintain manufacturability

What we are looking for

Essential:
“ Educated to engineering degree standard
“ Experience  of mechanical design and CAD with a good appreciation of manufacturing technologies
“ Skilled in 3D CAD modelling (preferably Catia)
“ Flexibility to adapt in an exciting fast paced working environment
“ Willingness to travel

Desirable:
“ Experience of electromechanical components and interfaces
“ Experience of component design for rotating machines
“ Experience of high  volume manufacture of electric motors
n.b. To apply for this role you must be able to live and work unrestricted in the UK. Should your application be successful, you will be contacted within the next 7 days.

Tiro Associates Ltd is a specialist Employment Agency and Employment Business assisting with both contract and permanent opportunities in the automotive, aerospace, electronics, engineering and manufacturing sectors. For details of all our current vacancies please refer to tiroassociates.com

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