Wheels & Tyre Standards Engineer

Futura Design Limited; Northampton; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A client in the automotive sector is seeking a Wheels & Tyre Standards Engineer to join their established team in Gaydon. This role involves creating specifications for wheel and tyre components, conducting design analysis, and ensuring high standards through technical documentation and process improvements. Applicants should have a degree in engineering and experience in project management. This contract is expected to last until March 2026.

Qualifications

• Educated to at least degree level in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• Proven ability to author technical documents.
• Self-motivated with project management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Create wheels, tyres, valves specifications and test procedures.
• Conduct design failure mode analysis (DFMEA) and develop tools.
• Perform data analysis and report writing.

Skills

Self-motivated

Technical document authoring

Project management

Customer focused

Education

Degree in relevant engineering discipline

Job description

Job Description

Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for a Wheels & Tyre Standards Engineer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position until 31st March 2026.

Umbrella Pay Rate: £27.03 per hour.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Engineer to join our client's Wheel and Tyre Core Team at Gaydon in the UK, as Wheel and Tyre Standards Engineer.
The team impacts all our client's Vehicles, creating and owning the process for component delivery for wheels, tyres and puncture management systems. Being the knowledge holders for the components, the team interacts with multiple areas of the business, including attribute teams, manufacturing, design, marketing, research and regulation. The team also supports the introduction of new technologies and works extensively on forward model architectures.

The team is well established and has a good reputation for technical expertise with genuine influence on shaping our client's vehicles through the important role of wheels and tyres.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Create wheels, tyres, valves, assembly, PMS and TPMS requirements and test procedures.
• Contribute and carry out design failure mode analysis (DFMEAs.) Develop tools for use by wheel and tyre engineers.
• Data analysis and report writing.
• Continuously look for process improvements, efficiencies, cost reductions, quality improvements and developing capability to deliver commodities with aid of virtual or simulation techniques (CAE.).
• Undertake any other work as directed by their Line Manager in connection with their job as may be requested.

Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience Required:

• Self-motivated and able to work to broad guidance.
• Proven ability to author technical documents.
• Basic project management capabilities, managing personal tasks to meet all deliverables in a timely and effective manner.
• To be customer focussed, constructively working with colleagues and customers, responding to their enquiries, in line with our client's creator's code.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

• Knowledge of wheels and/or tyres development, the various areas of the expertise affected by wheels and tyres, or tyre and/or wheel manufacturing, wheel and tyre assembly, puncture management systems (PMS), or tyre pressure monitoring systems (TPMS).
• Relevant experience with defining requirements or minimum standards, test procedures, failure mode analysis and quality management.
• A good working knowledge of product definition, creation, and delivery processes with our client.

Education Required:

• Educated to at least degree level in a relevant engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.

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