Product Development Project Engineer - 22331 - Gaydon (KSA-106485)

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Product Development Project Engineer - 22331
Gaydon, Warwickshire, England

Our automotive client is a market leader in luxury and high volume off-road vehicles, designing and manufacturing in the Midlands.

Key Responsibilities Include:
- Managing workstreams and delivery of opportunities
- Ensure robust timely and quality delivery of any tactical product actions including resolving any technical delivery issues
- Input objective vehicle line data to support technology cycle plan and commodity systems strategy
- Understand commercial challenges and integrate VFM/TVM and other cost reduction opportunities into vehicle line activities and plans
- Work with all functions to drive collation of key data for analysis and identifying areas of opportunities
- Provide and collate material for Vehicle Line Director (VLD) presentations
- Manage agenda and actions from meetings
- Plan Margin Improvement and material cost reduction events

Skills Required:
- Good at building relationships and an excellent communicator.
- Excellent organisation and planning skills.
- Tenacity and steadfastness to follow through and complete delivery.
- Motivated self starter who will go the extra mile to complete tasks on time, and use initiative to find solutions.
- Able to demonstrate the ability to lead the resolution of business and process issues
- Good financial skills - understanding of Income Statements, fixed and variable costs
- IT Skills - competent user of MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, an aptitude to learn and apply new systems and processes
- Hold a current Driving License - travel across sites will be required
- Project delivery using a Product Development System (ideally PCS) is preferred, however, experience of project and/ or supplier management, meeting demanding timescales, maintaining budget control and achieving cost-effective delivery is considered a minimum requirement
- Automotive experience
- Working cross-functionally
- Understanding of manufacturing process and macro strategy
- Working knowledge of marketing and brand (routes to market)
- Degree qualified

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Contracts are those of an Employment Business.