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Overview
Overview
Role: Senior/Principal Development Engineer
Location: Shoreham / Leamington Spa - Onsite
Role ID: 2025-2874
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
The Role
Due to the expansion of business within the Ricardo Powertrain & Transmissions Development group we are actively searching for Development Engineers to work on Powertrain and Industrial focused projects across a wide spectrum of applications and their associated systems and sub-systems.
Ricardo are expanding the mechanical development capability in the U.K requiring engineers that will be based at our Shoreham or Midlands facility but who are also flexible to work at other Ricardo sites and at customer locations in the U.K.(for a pre-agreed period of time if the project requires it).
The role will require an understanding in ideally automotive components, systems and associated vehicle parts. Understanding of transmission operation and industrial engineering i.e power plant, industrial etc,would also be beneficial. The job will require close co-operation with OEM, suppliers and test, design and analysis areas to define appropriate testing plans, analyse results and make recommendations for design changes on either new powertrain designs, vehicle interface systems or fault diagnostics projects. Projects may involve working alone or part of a cross-functional and possibly international team.
Key Responsibilities
Your main task responsibilities could include using the following key tools :
- Team management and planning.
- Proposal preparation and release.
- Customer liaison.
- Understanding of the product development process for powertrains & transmissions.
- Good general Mechanical Engineering skills.
- System and component specification development.
- Rig and System testing validation testing.
- Instrumentation and data capture.
- FMEAs.
- DVP’s (Design Validation Plans)
- Structured problem solving i.e 8D, DAMAIC process etc
- Test procedure preparation and release.
- Post test teardown and inspection.
- Metrology skills.
- An understanding of component manufacture, supplier liaison and design release process are also beneficial.
- Ideal have knowledge of production quality processes.
- Preparation and execution of component, system, engine and vehicle testing either at Ricardo or on off site with the customer:
- Specialist instrumentation
- Prototype component manufacture
- Component and system functional and durability test rigs
- Functionality and durability engine dynamometer tests
- Functionality and durability vehicle tests.
- Investigations and technical reporting to respond to customer powertrain enquiries on current and advanced technology on component or engine systems.
- Preparation of work proposals and project planning activities.
- Interfacing with engineering teams and specialists.
As well as a strong ability to apply of fundamental engineering principles. Relevant experience in the automotive engineering industry and in the field of mechanical development is essential. Initiative and interpersonal skills are essential, as are strong written communication, PC and presentation skills.
- A good Engineering degree is preferential but not essential.
- Technical task management of projects and engineers.
- Interfacing skills with internal & external customers.
- Broad engineering knowledge of powertrain systems.
- Supplier management.
- Can work on client’s site / willing to travel.
- Ability to coordinate and understand information from multiple engineering departments.
- Understand engineering drawings.
- Experience of fault finding techniques used in the Automotive industry.
- Good project management skills.
- Good presentation skills.
- Understanding of CAE and CFD techniques.
- Understanding of engine component and system design gasoline and Diesel engines with a basic knowledge of transmission operation.
- Good presentation and reporting skills.
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.
Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team viarecruit@ricardo.comif you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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