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A career at Aston Martin means joining one of the world's most respected luxury automotive brands. With this opportunity available now, you have the chance to join us in a truly special working environment that is fast-paced, rewarding and dynamic.

Job Purpose:

Design, release and approval of Lighting components and systems to deliver required functionality to agreed cost, timing and quality targets.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks:

• Commodity Ownership:
• Manage 5-year commodity strategy & get relevant new technologies to implementation ready within agreed Function budget, resource & timing. 
• Create engineering guideline documents and archetypes for platform and non-platform engineered components.
• Define to application engineer resource requirements (internal & external) for platform commodities.
• Manage lighting commodity CAD BOM.
• Engineering:
• Ensure components are designed and engineered robustly using standard engineering toolsets.
• Support pre-production builds, ensuring build concerns are contained and resolved in the required timeframe.
• Develop lighting concepts in CAD, prior to supplier sourcing.
• Define requirements for owned and interfacing components.
• Create and maintain component specifications.
• Delivery:
• Lead cross-functional team to deliver components to the programme QCWFT (quality, cost, weight, function and timing) requirements.
• Ensure that the commodity meets the Feature plan (with the component suppliers), creating & managing recovery plans as required.  Includes releasing components (BoM, tooling launch).
• Monitor internal & external resource utilisation to identify potential efficiency improvements for the next programme.
• Validation:
• Create & manage the commodity’s virtual & physical DV plan.
• Ensure effective report writing to evidence component and system compliance to specification.
• Ensure that all concerns and testing issues are robustly resolved.
• Complete FESO (Final Engineering Sign-off) documentation for commodities.

The post holder will undertake other duties as may be required to achieve the Company’s objectives, commensurate with the grading of the post.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree educated
• Proven record of delivering Lighting commodities, including quality, cost, function, weight and timing.
• Recent experience with Lighting or similar commodities.
• Extensive knowledge of automotive development systems e.g. specification, releasing, concerns, containments, gateways and sign off documentation.
• Experience of leading a cross functional team, including complex issue resolution.
• Supplier management experience.
• Complete knowledge of Product Development cycle from concept to launch completion.
• Excellent technical engineering background and a comprehensive knowledge of using calculation and analysis to drive design.
• Knowledge of automotive quality tools and processes.
• Extensive knowledge of the manufacturing processes to create Lighting components.

Renumeration package                                   

• Competitive Salary 
• Access to Mercedes and FCA car lease scheme.
• Private Medical Cover - Single cover, Family cover at an additional cost.
• Health Shield Cash Plan.
• 26 days annual leave + statutory bank holidays.
• Company Performance Bonus Scheme.
• Discount on our lease schemes with variety manufactures
• Company pension scheme - Initial 3% company contributions rising (after two years' service) to double-matched company contributions of up to 12%.
• A wide range of discounts with associated partners.

How to apply

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PLEASE NOTE: We reserve the right to close the vacancy to applications earlier should we receive sufficient applications.