Christopher Clay Email & Phone Number

Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Leadership level responsibility for vehicle Side Impact, Roof Strength, and Pedestrian protection, managing a team of 6 to 8 engineers.
• Delivery of the 2022 Global Ford Ranger Program from product validation to final production.
• Reporting out program status to Director leadership level at all major milestone creating awareness of open issues and recommending recovery actions where required through clear data presentation and communication.
• Delivery of CAE development phases of the next Gen Ranger, guiding the engineering team on quality modelling, robust designs and reduced complexity to secure an issue free quality validation phase.
• Homologation responsibility to ensure vehicles meet Safety requirement for all global regions including Europe, Asia and North America.
• Work task prioritization to ensure the teams activities support the business needs with a focus on ‘value add’ activities and the elimination of waste.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Leadership level responsibility for the Fuel Economy, Vehicle Performance, Weight Engineering and Thermal System (TSE) attributes, managing a team of 6 to 11 engineers.
• Delivery of the first Ford Escort and Taurus vehicles into China, the last Ford Falcon and Territory within Australia, and the 2018 Global Ford Ranger and Everest Program from program start to final production.
• Teaching, mentoring and coaching junior engineers though the graduate program and business expansion plans.
• Subject matter expert (SME) for the Australian region, identifiable as the single point contact and instrumental in both analytical and test data review and interpretation.
• Homologation responsibility to ensure vehicles meet global fuel economy requirement for all Asia pacific, MEA, EU and SA regions.
• Planner of workload, priorities and vehicle usage requirements through the creation of vehicle development plans and identification of business needs.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

• Module leader responsibility for all Jaguar and Land Rover new model program overseeing air intake and cooling system commodities.
• System ownership from pre program start (pre-PS) to the program target compatibility checkpoint (PTCC).
• Support of GPDS program gateway delivery through hardware assumption confirmation, digital package identification, manufacture and service consideration, and costed BOM creation.
• Management of AIMs and E-trackers to ensure cross department progression.
• Creation and maintenance of E-room quality documentation including Perfect Drawing Plans (PDP's), Quality Histories, and DFMEA's,
• Supplier liaison to obtain X1 prototype components and official production volume quotations using the RFQ process (request for quote).

Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom

• Development of the industry's first 2400 bar high flow common rail diesel injection pump system for commercial and genset applications.
• Result achievement through extensive and innovative bench and rig testing.
• Instrumentation and acquisition system selection to determine mechanical and hydraulic loading of individual components and the system as a whole.
• Calibration and fault finding of system test benches to ensure accurate results are recorded at all times and to ensure maximum uptime achievement.
• Component ownership of several key parts within the complete fuel system including fluid inlet and delivery valves, tappet assemblies, and pumping elements.
• Use of laboratory equipment including hardness testing, tensile testing and microscopes to help determine component failure modes.

Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

• Assisting in the design, build, installation, and maintenance of 9 new test beds for the proving of electromechanical diesel injection units.
• Using appropriate instrumentation to calibrate acquisition systems and to set product development and durability tests.
• Accurate report writing of product status and test summaries.
• Set up of test rig control and acquisition software to endure that the correct product test conditions are met and recorded.
• Analysis of logged data to determine component performance and to identify any potential failure modes.
• Monitoring and developing departmental technicians in order to maximize their potential and productivity.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Conducting Dynamic Drag, Fluid Displacement, Caliper Deflection, Piston Slide Force, and Piston Retraction testing to determine brake caliper conformity to design specifications.
• Interpreting engineering test requests to ensure that the correct data is acquired to enable an accurate and informative test report to be written.
• Liaising with Product Engineers to advise on product status and to identify further test requirements.

Bedford, England, United Kingdom

• Working within a variety of departments and locations to achieve a more rounded understanding of the automotive engineering industry. These included Powertrain, Body Engineering, Chassis Engineering, and a 2-year.

Worthing, England, United Kingdom

• Manipulating kinematic models to assess platform dynamic package clearances.
• Analysing crash film, understanding of crash system technology (airbags, pretensioners and seatbelts), and creating finite element crash models.
• Creating and updating project timing plans for new and existing vehicle platforms
• Generation of basic component 3D CAD models using CATIA.v4.

Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom

• Recognizing, communicating and repairing a wide range of vehicle faults within a Ford dealership including the repair/replacement of all vehicle subsystems: steering, suspension, transmission, braking and engine.