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Role: Product Development Manager – Electric Steering Motors
Company:  Global Automotive
Job Type: Permanent
Salary:  Competitive Market rate and benefits
Location: West Midlands
An exciting opportunity to join a world-class team responsible for the design and delivery of 10 million high-performance brushless motor-drive units per year for automotive electric steering. Working for 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 technologies in their electric motor design, industrialisation and control.

This is a very fast-paced sector requiring sophisticated design and analytical skills. You will be responsible for managing the requirements capture, design and production support for electric steering motor-drives.

What you’ll do

“ Manage the design & industrialisation of electric motor-drives for column-drive electric steering systems
“ Work with the lead engineers to ensure all technical requirements are delivered and issues resolved
“ Liase with the customer and/or programme manager to establish specification and deliverables
“ Track and evaluate project performance to the agreed milestones, metrics and cost
“ Support bid and quote activities
“ Ensure business standards for design & development and quality processes are implemented & met
“ Analyse production line data to validate requirements and help drive improvements to quality and yield

What we are looking for

Essential:
“ Educated to degree standard in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline
“ Experience of technical lead and/or project management of multi-disciplinary engineering projects
“ Excellent communication and analytical skills
“ Flexibility to adapt in an exciting fast paced working environment

Desirable:
“ Good knowledge of ISO26262 standards
“ Experience of engineering safety critical systems and structured requirements management
“ Familiarity with electric drive systems and motor control
“ Self motivated and able to work without direct supervision

If you believe that you have the skills and experience for this role and are eligible to work unrestricted in the UK, please click apply now in order to submit your CV. Should your application be successful, you will be contacted within the next 7 days.

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