Technical Lead - Propulsion Integration
Location: Warwick
Pay Rate: £38 - £40 per hour

Contract: Outside IR35, Limited Company

Role Summary

An exciting opportunity for a Technical Lead - Propulsion Integration to provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams, ensuring successful delivery of propulsion system requirements throughout the product lifecycle.

The Technical Lead - Propulsion Integration will apply systems engineering principles to define, integrate and validate complex propulsion solutions while managing technical interfaces across multiple vehicle domains. The role is responsible for leading cross-functional collaboration, programme execution, risk management and engineering excellence to achieve performance, cost and timing targets.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead integration and delivery of propulsion system software, controls and calibration activities across vehicle programmes.
• Ensure alignment between hardware, software, controls and system requirements to achieve propulsion performance and vehicle attribute targets.
• Coordinate software release planning and deployment activities against programme milestones and gateway deliverables.
• Manage cross-functional collaboration between controls, calibration, systems, validation and commodity engineering teams.
• Lead propulsion verification and validation activities including MIL, SIL, HIL, vehicle-level testing and sign-off events.
• Support development and validation of torque control, energy management, thermal management, drivability, efficiency, performance and diagnostic functions.
• Review and approve software change requests, issue investigations and corrective actions.
• Drive root cause investigation and resolution of vehicle integration, software, calibration and controls-related issues.
• Ensure software maturity and readiness for prototype, DV, PV, launch and production gateways.
• Support vehicle-level testing, data analysis and issue triage activities.
• Manage functional integration and validation of propulsion features including regenerative braking, torque delivery, charging interactions, diagnostics and thermal control strategies.
• Manage propulsion systems requirements and facilitate risk and opportunity discussions with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with programme, manufacturing, purchasing, quality and development teams.
• Track programme timelines, budgets and deliverables to support successful delivery.
• Support gateway material preparation and issue resolution.
• Act as a key technical authority for the Technical Lead - Propulsion Integration function across programmes.

Requirements of the Role

• Strong experience within Propulsion System Engineering.
• Proven project management capability.
• Relevant propulsion domain experience.
• Strong ownership mindset with excellent problem-solving skills.
• Customer-focused approach.
• Experience using AGILE JIRA.
• Experience using 3Dx.
• Experience using SAP.
• Proficient with Microsoft tools.
• Strong systems engineering knowledge.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience supporting vehicle integration, validation and software delivery activities.
• Suitable background for a Technical Lead - Propulsion Integration position with responsibility for complex propulsion systems.

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Please note, this role is deemed outside of IR35 - you will be operating as a Limited company Contractor.