Manager - Body Electronics

Manager - Body Electronics

Aston Martin

Gaydon, United Kingdom

Job Purpose:

Manage the Body Electronics team to Design, release and approval of Body Electronics components and systems to deliver required functionality to agreed cost, timing and quality targets.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

Commodity Ownership:

• Manage 5-year commodity strategy & develop relevant new technologies to implementation ready within agreed Function budget, resource & timing.
• Lead SET Team to ensure cross functional delivery of Body Electronics content across all agreed programmes
• Create engineering guideline documents and archetypes for platform and non-platform engineered components.
• Develop and deliver plans to achieve minimum delivered cost throughout lifecycle of components.

Engineering:

• Ensure components are designed and engineered robustly using standard engineering toolsets.
• Support pre-production builds, ensuring build concerns are contained and resolved in the required timeframe.
• Define requirements for owned and interfacing components.
• Create and maintain component specifications.
• Investigate and resolve any issues throughout lifecycle of components.

Delivery:

• Lead cross-functional team to deliver components to the programme QCWFT (quality, cost, weight, function and timing) requirements.
• Manage software delivery to the correct quality and feature level for each integration point.
• Ensure that the commodity meets the Feature plan at each stage to support all dependant systems (with the component suppliers), creating & managing recovery plans as required. Includes releasing components (BoM, tooling launch).
• Monitor internal & external resource utilisation to identify potential efficiency improvements for the next programme.

Validation:

• Create & manage the commodity’s virtual & physical DV plan.
• Ensure effective report writing to evidence component and system compliance to specification.
• Ensure that all concerns and testing issues are robustly resolved.
• Complete FESO (Final Engineering Sign-off) documentation for commodities.
• The post holder will undertake other duties as may be required to achieve the Company’s objectives, commensurate with the grading of the post.

Qualification & Experience:

• Proven record of delivering Body Electronics (hardware and software) commodities, including quality, cost, function, weight and timing.
• Experience of managing a team of engineers and leading cross functional SET teams including complex issue resolution.
• Experience with Body Electronics or similar commodities.
• Extensive knowledge of automotive development systems e.g. specification, releasing, concerns, containments, gateways and sign off documentation.
• Supplier management experience.
• Complete knowledge of Product Development cycle from concept to launch completion.
• Excellent technical engineering background and a comprehensive knowledge of using calculation and analysis to drive design.
• Knowledge of automotive quality tools and processes.
• Extensive knowledge of the manufacturing processes to create Body Electronics components.
• Requirements writing (including use of S/W tools such as Polarion, Doors, Jama etc.)
• Knowledge of CAN tools to diagnose vehicle behaviour and faults.
• Engineering degree or proven equivalent experience.
• Electrical engineering degree

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