About

• Overview
• Role: Contractor Systems Engineer
• Location: Shoreham - On-site Contractor role
• Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
• Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
• The Role
• An opportunity exists within the Development group of Ricardo Automotive & Industrial for a Systems Engineer to work on a diverse range of mechanical engineering projects, encompassing IC engines, Electric vehicles, Hydrogen Fuel Cells and other technologies at the forefront of Ricardo’s vision “to create a safe and sustainable world”. The System Owner will lead the design, development and delivery of assigned systems and sub-systems, ensuring compliance with technical, safety, regulatory, and certification requirements.
• This role requires a technically versatile engineer capable of coordinating cross-functional engineering teams. They are likely to have technical expertise in one or more of the engineering disciplines and also possess broader systems engineering and complex system delivery experience.

Job Duties

To deliver systems from concept to production as follows

• Develop a technical specialisation or design ownership in an engineering system
• Prepare Engineering Specifications to define requirements in terms of performance, durability, cost, weight, etc
• Working with the wider engineering team, take responsibility for coordinating the design, analysis and development activities for a given system or systems
• Manage the system DFMEA and DVP to ensure the system is robust
• Progress the design through the project gateways to ensure that parts are released to support DVP activities and meet production timing
• Manage suppliers of components for prototypes, development and production, including hosting meetings and issuing meeting minutes
• Problem solving and issue resolution to maintain the project timing
• Work to industry standard quality procedures and validation processes ( i.e be aware of SQA procedures)
• Presenting clear and reasoned status reports to internal and external customers
• Occasional support to sales teams in the development of market opportunities through client interaction and proposal support

Required Qualifications and Experience

• BEng degree at 2:1 grade or higher is preferred although other qualifications will be considered.

The successful applicant will have experience in most of the following

• Act as the system / sub-system lead for assigned projects, ensuring technical integrity and compliance.
• Interpret and apply technical, safety, regulatory, and certification requirements across the component/sub-system/system lifecycle.
• Support requirements decomposition and validation to ensure complete traceability from customer needs to system-level deliverables.
• Have previous system or component ownership responsibility
• Experience in a similar role (i.e. PMST, CPMT, Module Leader, Component Engineer, Application Engineer, SME, etc)
• Design and release of components and systems through to production
• Preparing Design FMEAs
• Testing and development of prototype systems through to production
• Supplier management and customer interaction
• Experience of working on mechanical/electrical engineering technologies, that may include: IC Engine systems/tranmissions (Base engine, air handling, fuel injection, pumps, etc), Electric Drive Units, Hydrogen Fuel Cells

An awareness of, or direct experience in the following

• Supplier Quality Assurance activities, including APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, etc.
• Manufacturing and production engineering
• Knowledge of standards such as BSI, ISO, DIN etc
• Manage certification evidence and ensure compliance documentation is complete and auditable.
• PERSONAL SPECIFICATION
• Skills
• Experience in some or all of the following: Component releasing, reading and using engineering drawings, FMEA, DVP, Design & Development, SQA, APQP & PPAP, 8D type problem solving, CAD visualisation tools, BOM or ETRS, supplier management.
• Excellent PC skills required.
• Good report writing and presentation skills are essential.
• Personal Attributes
• You will be comfortable in meeting environments, and be able to deliver clear status updates, based upon robust planning and technical understanding. You will be able to coordinate and understand information from multiple engineering functions.

You will be a motivated self-starter who manages their time and takes pride in engineering good solutions to complex problems. In this customer facing position, a professional outlook, good communication ability, the ability to meet commitments and drive to ‘go the extra mile’ when needed, will lead to a rewarding career at Ricardo. Additional attributes include

• Clear communicator with ability to translate technical and regulatory requirements into actionable plans.
• Strong collaborator, aligning engineering, quality, and certification stakeholders.
• Customer-oriented, ensuring deliverables meet safety, quality, and compliance expectations.
• Manage and coordinate a cross functional team of engineers through the full product development lifecycle of assigned system or sub-system.
• Manage and coordinate suppliers and external partners who are contributing to the development.
• Professional appearance and behaviours
• Good written and oral communication ability
• Good attention to detail
• Reliable - able to meet deadlines and commitments
• Able to work under pressure, managing large amounts of information
• Knowledge
• Knowledge of one or more mechanical systems, having previously managed components from concept to production.
• With a solid technical background in Mechanical Engineering, flexibility in applying engineering knowledge would be a key advantage – thus being capable to work on the diverse range of exciting projects that exist in Ricardo, spanning Hybrids and electrified vehicles through to complex supercar transmissions and clean-sheet vehicle programmes.
• Working here
• You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
• We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
• Work life balance
• We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.
• Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
• Next steps
• Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
• Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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