Safety Engineer
Techniche Global
Techniche are supporting a leading automotive manufacturer to appoint Safety Engineer responsible for automotive crash passive safety performance.
Pay Rate: up to £29/hour PAYE+ holiday and pension pay
Location: Cranfield, Bedfordshire – hybrid (3 days working in the office; 2 days WFH)
Duration: 12 months rolling contract (full-time)
Requirements: needs to have LRTW in the UK
Key responsibilities:
- Performance planning, test planning and analysis of CAE and physical test results.
- Liaising between local and global other related departments at all stages of the vehicle development process.
- Attending regular projecting meetings and feeding back key information to the department.
- Organised and capable of effectively prioritising and completing tasks within short deadlines
- Proactive approach to work, ability to work on own initiative
- Short, middle term (2weeks – 2month) trip to Spain or France might be required to witness the physical crash test
- Confirming if design meets crash performance requirement and feedback to design teams
- Making test requests and supporting to conduct the tests
- Analysing CAE and test results and creating reports
- Creating minutes of the meeting
- Developing process improvement tool
Qualifications and experience:
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Engineering or Physics related field
- Biomechanics knowledge is advantageous
- Knowledge in HV vehicle architecture a plus
- Experience in CAE within automotive engineering environment is a plus
- Valid UK/European driving license a must
- Ability to travel within Europe
- Experience in Automotive Passive Safety testing or restraint system development
- Knowledge of body engineering or electrical architecture and systems (i.e. eCall, ACU) is a plus.
- Understanding of vehicle passive safety design concepts
- Experience of interpreting, executing and analysing a variety of Regulation and consumer based passive safety crash tests
- Familiar with automotive simulation and analysis tools, such as Animator, Diadem, TrackReport
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills for discussing internally within the company and with external test labs
- Highly self-motivated and driven, with high attention to detail
- English speaking, fluent. Japanese or other European languages may be advantageous.
