PVT Product engineer

The Purpose of the Job:
Our vehicles are admired and desired around the world for luxurious design and outstanding engineering. Our Engineering and Manufacturing teams are constantly driving this incredible experience; being a part of this team providing the ideas and expertise behind their creation and manufacture is even more exhilarating. This is the opportunity in this role.
Reporting to the PVT Supervisor, as a PVT Project Engineer you will maintain component/system responsibility within the VRT (Variation Reduction Team) as well as leading wider the VRT team to define and deliver improvements as part of continuous improvement actions.
As a PVT Project Engineer you will also support the VRT team, providing coaching on problem solving strategies, KPI and KPO management as well as day to day operational leadership to ensure every customer is completely satisfied with the quality of the engineered product.
You will need to track quality performance via a scorecard and be able to work cross functionally to drive teams to achieve clear objectives.
The role will include a period of training in the UK.

Main Responsibilities:

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• Analyse customer data within internal IT systems such as IQM, FMS and AIMs in a timely manner, to deliver sufficiency plans. This will involve understanding key projects and delivering containments and corrective actions for external in internal quality issues as identified in R/1000, A/1000, TGW and JD Power.
• Support of core engineering related projects to resolution using a structured approach to derive the optimum solution.
• Support work-streams with suppliers to develop solutions to customer and internal issues where processes can be improved and or engineering change is required to the product, managing the actions from customer symptom to containment and corrective action implementation. This includes tooling costing and feasibility assessments, manufacturing feasibility, engineering validation through line trails and testing, and overall business case justification.

• Support the manufacturing team with initiatives that will help deliver the plant scorecard metrics of FTT, RFT, WCPA and the realisation of control of product quality via robust process and engineering.

• Support presentations as required to forums with varied levels of escalation up to and including director level.

Support of launch activities during "in cycle" product model year changes and new models to ensure continuity of product knowledge and quality from the first customer car. Support problem solving & issue identification during pre-production builds

• Support activities to engage with core product development body engineering teams, working to deliver final data judgement deliverables and ensuring lessons are robustly learnt from current models. This includes virtual build, prototype build, BoM validation, AIMS/release progress & review of key component commodity plans
• Implement alerts, in process containments & rework instructions as required to support product launch and production.