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Gaydon, England, United Kingdom

- Utilised Tableau, SQL, Google BigQuery to develop effective data visualisations- Identified vehicle profit opportunities through data analysis (£17m individually attributable, £53m team attributable in FY22)- Used design thinking to deliver user needs; capturing, understanding and challenging requirements, creating wireframes, developing visualisations and managing stakeholder feedback and expectations- Actively learn and contribute to knowledge sharing and management within the team (e.g. upskilling graduate cohorts) across broad topics (technical & non-technical)- Champion wellbeing within team culture, raising awareness of mental health and identifying improvement areas

Gaydon, United Kingdom

- Contributed to the creation and development of the future Jaguar brand strategy; used data and proposed alternative approaches to analyse market and competitors, researched and proposed business strategies and frameworks to support brand positioning and differentiation, developed clear and concise board-level presentations).- Informed corporate and product strategies through ownership and publication of enterprise level trends (mega and macro), competitor reports and strategic studies

Solihull, United Kingdom

- Resolving BIW build issues during prototype build, determining root causes and developing permanent corrective actions.- Inspecting and validating new supplied parts, managing re-work and modifications.- Managing supplier relationships to ensure parts delivery and inspection reports assessed/approved.

Gaydon, United Kingdom

Upper Body Structures (Sept 14 - Feb 15)- Creating a design brief for the body in white sill assembly, detailing current strategies, functionality, design rules, benchmarking and assembly process.- Assessing the feasibility of design changes with respect to cost, weight and manufacturing implications.- Benchmarking or body structures for vehicle size and weight.Current Model Quality (Range Rover & Range Rover Sport) (Feb 15 - May 15)- Working at the Solihull plant to identify and correct quality issues.- Arranging validation testing of prototype parts, both on and off the build line.- Using qualitative and quantitative analysis to determine root cause from warranty data.- Liasing with external suppliers and overseas colleagues to deliver parts and work.Side Glass Aerodynamic Loading - Project Lead (June 15 - August 15)- Management of project inputs and outputs- Liaising with aerodynamics team to define and agree a process for the simulation of aerodynamic loading, risks with simulation and conversion of CFD to FEA data.- Organising wind tunnel testing, test case setup, data collection, interpreting results and making recommendations- Benchmarking competitor vehicles in cooperation with vehicle engineering and attribute teams.

Gaydon, United Kingdom

Aerodynamics Engineer (Jan 16 - Apr 16)- Model creation, simulation and analysis of large SUV vehicles, using BETA CAE Systems ANSA and EXA PowerFLOW software.- Creation of a guidance document relating to tyre meshing procedure to update the current process.- Creation of PowerVIS scripts to auto generate flow analysis plots, based on recommended areas of interest for visualisation, significantly reducing processing time.- Ensured defined processes were followed to ensure consistent and comparable results, including updating of results and configuration trackers to ensure data is recorded and referable.Global Product Strategy (Apr 16 - Jul 16):- Supported product planning and strategy teams in developing strategies for future vehicles, platforms and architectures.- Review of future product positioning both externally (competitor based) and within the internal JLR portfolio, being able to successfully challenge other departments with effective data in a number of instances.- Successful development of an architecture “Is/Is Not” document with appropriate formalisation, proactively liaising with stakeholders to align on inputs and able to adjust quickly to changing challenges.- Studied competitor architectures to understand strategies including products, locations, volumes & technical elements, becoming a knowledge base for key competitors and being able to make recommendations based on data.Graduate Innovation Forum (Nov 14 - Sept 16):- Co-chair/forum lead from Sept 15 - Sept 16- Planned, organised and facilitated ideation events- Created and ran pilot 'lunch and learn' sessions to engage areas of the business in future feature ideas- Acted as an innovation consultant for other teams around the business, including product planning, connected car and feature planning teams- Learned and developed techniques to facilitate idea generation

Bristol, United Kingdom

Bloodhound SSC:> Provided support on a number of components on the car> Undertook material investigations to identify potential, realistic materials that could be used given stress data and modal frequencies.> Analysed models using NASTRAN/PATRAN and Hyperworks. Models were evolved based on criteria identified by the Bloodhound SSC team.> Undertook checkstress for a variety of failure modes, such as bearing stress and bolt shear, extracting data from FE models. Rolls-Royce Development Engineering:> Writing modification summary reports and standardisation reports for modifications introduced to the Trent 1000 and Trent XWB Engines, in compliance with European Aviation Safety Agency certification specifications.> Identified problems and solutions from information from Rolls-Royce departments.> Used a systems engineering approach to consider how individual components affect a much larger system.> Liaison with contacts at Rolls-Royce to ensure adequate analysis was carried out to show compliance; requesting testing or additional analysis where appropriate.Airbus A350-900 wing assembly team:> Developing a FE model to simulate a real rig test of ribs at different stringer positions.> Produced verification models with reports to aid refinement of the manufacturing process.> Analysed data to identify potential errors and oversights in the model, as well as providing solutions to potential problems found.> This analysis formed the basis for fatigue and damage tolerance work to identify flight loading and lifecycles.> Work was carried out using Hyperworks, using UNIX servers to process the models using NASTRAN.Non-project related work included developing a Visual Basic macro in MS Word to reduce checking time of reports regarding document references.