Job Title - Body In White Design Principal Engineer

Location - Cranfield

Pay Rate - £27.94 via PAYE (inside IR35)

Length of contract - 12 months

Working patten - Minimum 3 days in the office / 2 days at home- ( this may change depending on workload)

Must have experience in:

• BIW (Body In white)
• Catia
• GD (Grade Delay)

Key Responsibilities

• The person will be expected to carry out design activities related to innovative technologies / cost optimisation / break through ideas related to BEV (Battery EV) vehicles - focusing on future vehicles as well as current production.
• Scope covers platform commodities: Body in white (BIW) and trim components (acoustic and aerodynamic related parts).
• Study technical solutions (benchmark, FMEA, design parts and systems etc), build business case (cost analysis), lead validation and adoption of the new design.
• Leading/supporting communication and negotiation with internal and external stakeholders including other design sections, suppliers, manufacturing plant, test group, product planning group, project management group etc
• Collaboration with broad range of entities across Nissan organisation: Nissan Technical and Business centres in Europe as well as Nissan Japan R&D and Nissan India support centre.

Qualifications, Skills and Training

• Minimum HNC/HND or international equivalent qualification in a relevant engineering discipline. Degree level qualification preferred.
• Experience working with metal pressings and assembly and/or trim parts is necessary (experience in both commodities is preferred but not mandatory)
• Extensive experience in automotive design, minimum Tier 1 supplier, OEM preferred.
• Experience of supplier management is necessary
• Experience working with other automotive OEMs is highly desirable
• CAD skill is highly preferable but not mandatory (preferably NX)
• Driving licence valid in the UK/EU is necessary

English language skills must be sufficient to carry out the work required.