Senior Development Engineer - Automotive - Manufacturing

Senior Development Engineer

The job role involves design and development of the full range of Fuel injectors including support for engineering, manufacturing and aftermarket teams based in application centres in Asia Pacific regions and Europe. The role will also involve the transfer of engineering activities and facilities into Gillingham Centre of Excellence while ensuring a smooth transition for our customers.

The position is based in Technical Centre Gillingham. Specific training will be provided for injector product functionality as required.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design and development of diesel fuel injection system components
• Devising and executing test and analysis work on fuel injection equipment rigs, engines and vehicles.
• Contributing to formal and informal design and development reviews at appropriate stages of projects
• Writing reports and presenting results to internal and external audiences.
• Organise the procurement and testing of sample hardware to meet project requirements
• Analyse customer's & legislative test requirements and formulate technical cost effective solutions.
• Preparation and execution of simulation models.
• Development of test equipment and instrumentation.
• Interpretation of test data, synthesis of results & reporting.
• Exposure to high precision manufacturing technologies required to produce advanced prototypes.
• Definition and execution of test plans to provide feedback to the development process.
• Assessments of designs using established DFMEA methods to develop a robust product.
• Contribution to project reviews and product development.

Skills

• Knowledge of DFMEA methodology
• Rig test instrumentation and operation.
• Data acquisition and post processing

Desirable

• Experience of design and development of products at all stages of product life cycle from concept through volume manufacturing to service only.
• Reliability assessment and accelerated/aggravated test development including correlation to customer environment/duty cycle.