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Royal Leamington Spa, Gb

Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom

Engineering Project Lead for implementation of new Climate Control System components, and Attribute Leader for Climate Control System subjective and regulatory performance requirements for occupant comfort and cabin air quality.Responsibilities involve, but are not limited to:Engineering Design - developing technical solutions for engine coolant transportation based cabin heating components, using CAD visualisation tools and with support from thermal FEA virtual simulation teams to help validate their robustness in the virtual design phase and then through physical validation on test vehicles. Additionally, supporting the early stage assessment of AC thermal fluid systems in the context of balancing energy requirements for cabin AC, drive unit and traction battery cooling in various usage cases.Engineering Project Management - use of APQP, SmartSheets, Microsoft Project and internal business tools to ensure all deliverables are compliant with the programme timing requirements, along with supplier management.Engineering Feasibility Assessment - review of new content proposed by Programme stakeholders at the initial stages of the vehicle lifecycle and providing a summary of the impacts, such as extent engineering activities required, costs (tooling, piece part, facilities), and attributes (occupant experience).Climate Attributes - ensuring the Climate Control system hardware design delivers the respective attributes performance targets for functions such as cabin heating, glazing defrost and demist, and cabin air conditioning. Furthermore, capturing changes to interior materials content and ensuring their compliance to Vehicle Interior Air Quality (VIAQ) market requirements through physical validation at material and whole vehicle levels.Issues Management – utilising 8D process tools to outline the problem definition, root cause and permanent corrective action for issues associated with engineering design, bill of materials, manufacturing or attributes.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Engineering delivery of new interior and exterior content for a variety of ‘Bespoke’ projects, ranging from extended customer choice derived from an existing catalogue of materials and personalisation technologies, to all new and unique content.Responsibilities involved, but were not limited to;- Engineering Feasibility - analysing proposed Design/styling content and determining affect on product integrity based on Engineering fundamentals in addition to all internal and external technical and regulatory standards. Resultant feedback included estimates on project timelines, commercial impacts and detailed any essential development and testing activities to validate new content.- Engineering Project Management - defining and maintaining project plans capturing all tasks and deliverables associated with the implementation of new content- 3D CAD & Drawings - piece part, assembly, and 2D drawing creation where applicable- Bill Of Materials management – extracting detailed part information from JLR systems, creating parts BOM matrices to support manual operational processes, and constructing illustrated BOMs to enable all business functions to have visual references of content within the project scope.

Warwickshire

Technical and programme delivery of the driver and passenger seats as subsystems and integration into vehicle for the Land Rover Discovery 5 & New Defender vehicle programmes, ensuring conformance to design, attribute, manufacturing, cost and timing requirements. Engineering Design & Implementation - interrogation of CAD geometry to ensure geometrical part packaging compatibility, robust part design and manufacturing feasibility, DFMEA conformance, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) application, understanding of and adherence to internal JLR, external (e.g. Euro NCAP) and legal regulations and requirements, attribute development and sign off with respect to Seat Comfort and NVH.Bill Of Materials management – initial production and running change engineering parts releases into JLR systems, including housekeeping of part usage, piece & tooling cost information.Issues Management & Troubleshooting – dealing with engineering, manufacturing, BOM and pre-production vehicle issues – understanding problem definition, ascertaining root cause and facilitating necessary corrective action in a timely manner whilst recording all activity within JLR’s issue management system (8D process)

Gaydon

Supporting the design of cross vehicle line seating trim components and sub assemblies;- Development of component and sub assembly models in addition to analysing vehicle packaging environments in Catia V5- Supporting role in development of Engineering Bill of Design- Collaboration with Human Machine Interface, Accommodation & Usage and Design Studios teams in developing brand new concepts- Competitor benchmarking analysis

Norwich, United Kingdom

Design and manufacture of composite components and sub assemblies for many well known companies within the motorsport industry.- Creation of 3D piece part, assembly, mould tooling and assembly jig models and 2D drawings within Solidworks- Mould tooling feasibility analysis- Composite part and assembly production from initial tool to finished articleSupporting role in the design and manufacture of the Mussett MR1500T race engine package in collaboration with Peter Elleray and Geoff Page Racing.

Thetford, Norfolk

Supporting the design and manufacture of various metal components & assemblies;- Producing CAD models and engineering drawings using Solidworks- Creation of CNC punch programs through use of CAM software (Lantek)- Supporting all factory personnel in troubleshooting production issues- Liaising with customers, building rapport to assist repeat business

Wood Dalling, Norfolk

Fabrication, assembly, servicing and repair of grain dryer systems which involved applying a number of practical skills (machining, sheet metal working, spot welding etc) and working offsite at various locations around the East of the UK.Worked part-time in conjunction with full-time HND studies.

Norwich, United Kingdom

Sandwich preparation, stock management, upholding high standards of hygiene, cleaning and tidying of the premises, teamwork, dealing with customers and managing transactions on the till.Worked part and full-time depending on study commitments

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng) (Hons), Mechanical Engineering, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Rock & Metal SocietyModules included Engineering Materials & Applications, Advanced Mechanical Design Analysis.

Higher National Diploma, Mechanical Engineering