Launch Support Engineer

Candidate Front Office Akka Group; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive company in Nottingham is seeking a skilled professional to support the production phases of customer vehicles. Responsibilities include creating and maintaining daily build plans, providing status reports, and solving build-related issues. Candidates must possess an engineering degree or equivalent qualification and have experience with Body Sealing and Vehicle build support. This role is on-site and requires collaboration with multiple project teams to ensure successful vehicle assembly.

Qualifications

• Experience with Body Sealing, Exterior/Body Hardware, and Dynamic Sealing Systems.
• Familiarity with applicable legislation and certification requirements.
• Proven build support experience.

Responsibilities

• Support production phases of all customer vehicles.
• Provide progress/status reports according to project timings.
• Create and maintain daily build plans.

Skills

BiW

Body Sealing

Build Support experience

Teamcenter PLM

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent qualification

Job description

Location: Crewe, United Kingdom (Onsite)

Responsibilities

• Support is required to cover the production phases of all customer vehicles, the load rate for these is approximately 1 per month.
• Professional services to achieve the deliverables.
• Provide progress/status reports in line with project timings.
• Creation and maintenance of Daily build plans, respecting the high-level customer delivery plan.
• Liaise and interface with all elements of the project delivery team to support the build of the Customer vehicles, including project management, operations, workshop, and various engineering departments (not exhaustive).
• Build documentation into relevant Bentleys systems to provide traceability of the build process of the vehicles, inclusive of history books and control plans.
• Agree on the build process for all affected componentry with all stakeholders internally and externally.
• Ensure that build feasibility is agreed with respect to the above.
• Build‑related problem resolution where required when vehicles are in assembly.
• Provide progress/status reports in line with project timings using standard client formats where applicable.

Experience

• BiW, Body Sealing, Exterior/Body Hardware and Dynamic Sealing Systems, Teamcenter PLM.
• Build Support experience.
• Applicable legislation and certification requirements.
• Engineering degree or equivalent qualification.