Delivery Manager - Chassis

Tata Technologies Ltd.

Warwick

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme (5% match)

JLR Privilege Scheme (up to 20%)

Health Assured – Employee Assistance

Job summary

Tata Technologies Ltd. is seeking a Delivery Manager - Chassis at our Warwick head office. You will lead a cross-functional team delivering chassis and motion control solutions across multiple product lines from concept to production.

This role involves extensive customer interfacing, project planning, risk assessment, and sign-off activities, with a focus on ASPICE-aligned processes and safety standards. The role requires strong leadership, deep automotive domain expertise, and hands-on

Qualifications

Automotive or Electrical Engineering degree with relevant industry experience.
Experience delivering complex mechatronic systems from concept to production.
Expert knowledge of chassis/motion systems and related vehicle dynamics.

Responsibilities

Accountable for system delivery of Chassis and Motion Control into customer vehicle lines.
Lead integration, planning, status reporting, and sign-off activities.
Manage technical and project delivery teams with leadership and expertise.
Ensure budget and milestones are planned and tracked.
Coordinate communications between customers, partners and TTL teams.
Represent team in forums and ensure timely issue escalation and resolution.
Oversee DFMEA maturation, DVP planning, execution and sign-off.
Ensure deliverables meet customer milestones and quality expectations.

Skills

Automotive chassis knowledge

Project leadership

Vehicle dynamics knowledge

Systems development

8D problem solving

Change management

Excellent communic.

Mentoring / coaching

Ability to guide teams

Driving license (UK)

Education

Automotive or Electrical Engineering Degree

Tools

CANalyzer

CANape

ASL

Job description

At Tata Technologies we make product development dreams a reality by designing, engineering and validating the products of tomorrow for the world's leading manufacturers. Due to our continued growth we are now recruiting for a Delivery Manager - Chassis to be based at our Head Office in Warwick.

Our Embedded Systems Solutions department (ESS) encompasses all activities outlined under the Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) process framework, including systems engineering, software engineering, coding, and all levels of functional testing. Beyond core development, ESS also integrates critical supporting processes such as project management, risk assessment, functional safety, and cybersecurity, ensuring compliance with ASPICE standards and delivering reliable, secure, and high-quality embedded systems & solutions.

Role Summary:

Supporting the growth of the domain within a key customer, an exciting role has become available to lead the team in delivery of a 1st to market segment motion control technology across multiple product lines.

Dimension of function:

This is a key customer interfacing role, with accountability for multiple projects with the customer, on both existing and new product lines with the scope of the work including; leading the development, integration, validation and sign-off of both new suspension systems, along with existing technology on new product lines.

Areas of responsibility:

Accountable for the system delivery of the Chassis and Motion Control System technology into customers vehicle line/s.
Lead the integration of the technology onto the intended vehicle lines, including and not limited to; Project planning & co-ordination, Status reporting, System Integration incl test & validation, supporting compliance and sign off activities.
Manage both technical and project delivery teams, in providing leadership and technical expertise in both the domain and system delivery.
Robust planning to ensure appropriate budget, project costs are considered and scheduled in line with internal and external milestones.
Setup & promote efficient communications between customers partner organisations and TTL project team,
Represent the team and the technology in multiple forums, ensuring status and actions are clearly communicated, escalated appropriately. All issues are to be captured and progressed using customers issue management systems appropriately and in a timely manner.
Accountable for DFMEA maturation, DVP planning, execution and sign off (incl Vehicle Level)
Ensuring all deliverables meet customer milestones to the appropriate quality expectations.
Lead both application development and projects teams, along with managing both external and internal interfacing teams.
Collaborate with CORE application teams where necessary to support integration of new applications of motion systems.
Requirements analysis & decomposition, development and execution of validation process and associated simulation environments whilst using RMDV.
Defining and identifying complete test plans, including vehicle usage, spares, and test schedule

Knowledge, Skills & Experience (essential)

Automotive or Electrical Engineering Degree with industry experience (Automotive preferred)
Expert knowledge of Automotive Chassis / Motion Systems and associated features in the vertical motion domain e.g. Roll Control Systems, Adaptive Damping, Switchable Air Springs, Fully Active Suspension in either the controls or mechatronics domain, although strong candidates with relevant system experience from other industries such as aerospace will also be considered.
Experience of delivering complex mechatronic systems from concept to production.
Demonstratable experience of delivering complex projects to quality, cost and time.
Knowledge of integrated suspension control and associated systems / features.
Knowledge of vehicle dynamics particularly in the active systems domain.
Experience of systems development and delivery through all stages of the engineering development ‘V’ cycle, including understanding of system principals.
Requirements and change management tools and processes, version control, control strategy documentation.
Experience of safety critical active control systems and associated software, including standards such as ISO26262, IEC61508 or similar.
Expert level project management and reporting.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with strong influencing and engagement skills.
Ability to guide and coach team members to enhance teams capability.
Competent in issue resolution methodology and application e.g. 8D, Fishbone.
Full UK driving license
Experience delivering complex integrated control systems.
Experience in working with external companies delivering software components as part of a larger software product.
Hands on vehicle testing in the active systems domain including subjective and objective test methods.
Understanding of automotive networking, diagnostics and fault handling techniques, and related system development tools (CANalyzer, ASL, CANape, etc.)
Previous experience in JLR and their technology/product delivery processes would be an advantage.
Recognised industry driving qualifications e.g. JLR's Class 3 / 4PG etc