Prototype Assets Test & Development Planning Engineer

A leading premium automotive business and leading to move towards electric autonomous vehicles.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Jaguar Land Rover is an iconic brand with an illustrious heritage that is now undergoing a dramatic transformation. As part of our Re-Imagine Strategy, we will be repositioned as a modern luxury brand and will seek to offer a new end to end customer journey. As part of our new vision, we aim to deliver customers an aspirational, seamless and luxury experience.

The Prototype Assets Test and Development team is growing and plays a major role in planning and delivering prototype assets to enable the wider engineering functions to conduct their Design Verification (DV) testing. As part of this multi-talented team, you will support the Lead Engineer to integrate end to end planning and delivery of the prototype test assets (vehicles and rigs) for Jaguar Land Rover vehicle programmes. As Jaguar Land Rover continues on its journey of "Road to Rigs", this role will be at the forefront of championing and deploying Jaguar Land Rover's strategy for less reliance on vehicles and more reliance on simulation and rigs to carryout DV. This role will involve working with multiple stakeholders within the Agile Methodology to support construction of an integrated and optimised test plan to deliver robust product on time to the right quality and budget. The role will suit career aspirants within technical project planning / management who likes to work with multiple stakeholders and being responsible for delivering and end to end program / project.

At Jaguar Land Rover, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees flexibility to be productive in an environment they feel conductive to be creative. This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can split your time between working from home and on Jaguar Land Rover sites. Hybrid working is agreed with the Line Manager and employees are required as and when to work on site as directed by the Line Manager. Further details can be discussed with the Hiring Manager at interview stage.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
A key part of your role is to support in construction and monitoring the physical product test requests (Software, Electrical and Mechanical) to create and optimise prototype end to end test plans for vehicles and rigs for whole of the program. You will coordinate with wide range of stakeholders within Jaguar Land Rover and support the Lead Engineers in challenging the teams for justifications and promote use of rigs and digital simulation where possible to enable cost savings by producing a smaller number of prototype vehicles. You will support facilitation of stakeholders workstream plans creation and looking for dependency and timing disconnects and resolving issues by engaging with stakeholders at working levels, and support vehicle and rigs Prototype builds to ensure assets are built on time and to the desired quality to meet test requirements of the users who will conduct the DV testing. You will also develop and maintain strong working relationships with all key stakeholders.

Knowledge and Experience

Key Skills

A planning mindset, including understanding of the principles of test plan creation, management, and critical path analysis
Excellent organisational skills.
Confident verbal and written communications skills
Ability to work with various departments with good interpersonal skills to build relationships with stakeholders
Strong Engineering skill set through the full product cycle from concept to launch
Ability to understand and present technical data
Facilitation and negotiation skills

Behaviours

Enthusiastic with strong passion to learn and make continuous improvements
Highly driven, self-motivated and able to deliver with minimum supervision
Flexible and able to work under pressure delivering within committed timelines.
Customer First attitude to maintain Can do - will do positive approach within challenging environment
A dynamic team player with a progressive mindset.

Experience

Previous programme delivery experience within New Product Introduction.
Experience of cross functionality working and problem resolution
An understanding of test methodology in mechanical and/ or electrical disciplines
Reporting and presenting technical data to Stakeholders

Desirable

Knowledge of test management tools
Previous experience in end-to-end creation of Prototype Assets Test and Development plans
Working knowledge of prototype rigs and vehicle testing