Posted:  11th October, 2025

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Position: Technical Project Lead Engineer

Domain: Automotive

Job Type: Permanent / Contract 

Location: Coventry, UK 

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This role is responsible for leading technical project delivery within the Powertrain domain, ensuring alignment with programme targets and cross-functional collaboration. The individual will act as the primary point of contact for one or more vehicle programmes, managing risks, resolving issues, and driving delivery across engineering, commercial, and operations teams. In this role, you will support the Technical Delivery Manager to manage all Powertrain content for your programme(s) through all stages of development, from concept, through prototype builds and validation, to Launch and into volume production. You will be responsible for ensuring that risks are identified early and issues are resolved quickly, keeping the Product Creation Process on track and to budget.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Cultivate strong relationships with your key stakeholders to ensure you can identify and manage emerging risks affecting the Powertrain as the vehicle design progresses from Concept to Production-Intent design content, promptly escalating issues to Management when more support is needed. Using your excellent communication skills, help the Programme teams to expediently reach high-quality, well-informed, robust decisions to continue to make progress.

• Ensure commodities’ technical, timing and cost assumptions remain aligned with the procurement, tooling cost, engineering (from both internal teams and from supplier teams) design & development cost budgets. Monitor the ongoing programme spend and work with Engineering and Finance teams to ensure sufficient funds remain available to complete the necessary work

•  Drive a team of engineers to ensure their commodities’ requirements are understood, designs are concluded on time and validation activities, at both component and system levels can complete on time, balancing requests for design changes with the time and cost impacts of those changes. Support activities to enact those design changes considered beneficial for the vehicle.

• Prepare high-level status summaries as required for the various Engineering and Industrialisation Programme teams, and manage the auditable elements of our Product Creation and Delivery System

•  Champion effective change management through engagement at appropriate internal and external networks and forums

• Contribute to the completion of impact analysis and apply risk mitigation techniques to maximise likelihood of successful and sustainable implementation of change

• Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested.

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Key Performance Indicators:

• Powertrain deliverables met on time/ on cost in relation of programme targets

• Clear status of Powertrain scorecard and metrics tracked and reported against vehicle program gateways

• Provide clear timing plan and indications for the rollout of commodities into the vehicle program

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Key Interactions:

• Vehicle engineering lead engineers and managers

• Vehicle Integration lead engineers and managers

• Programme Group Leads and programme chief

• Powertrain engineering delivery lead engineers and managers

• Powertrain engineering unit programme lead engineers and managers.

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Skills, Knowledge and Experience Required:

Essential:

 

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• Demonstrable experience of working in a Project Management role with a track record of successful delivery

• Demonstrable experience of stakeholder management

• Methodological approach to work

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills

• Relevant degree or equivalent experience

• Ability to travel independently between Client sites throughout the West Midlands

Desirable:

• Fundamental knowledge of the key components constituting vehicle powertrains, whether utilising internal combustion or electrified propulsion systems

• Knowledge of commercial aspects of project delivery, such as requests for information, requests for quotation, supplier selection, capital asset management and budget management / earned value analysis

• Experience of working within a Product Creation and Delivery System, programme management, risk management or structured problem-solving environment. Some examples may be qualifications like PRINCE2, PMP, APMP / ChPP, AgilePM, Six Sigma or similar

• Experience with Project Management or Agile toolsets, such as JIRA, Confluence, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project or similar.

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Personal Profile:

Essential:

• Demonstrates our Creators' Code behaviours of Customer Love, Unity, Integrity, Growth and Impact.

• Continually working hard to deliver a modern luxury experience to earn and keep our customers’ trust and loyalty.

• Embracing differences, being empathetic, welcoming challenges together empowering each other to deliver.

• Building trust by speaking openly and honestly, listening attentively, and treating others respectfully.

• Taking initiative and using failure as an opportunity to learn. We develop by giving + seeking honest feedback.

• Making a difference through our results. We innovate and never lose sight of what we want to achieve.

• An individual, who works independently, is results driven, demonstrating tenacity, drive and perseverance with the ability to deliver operational plans in a complex, highly demanding environment.

• An individual with the capability to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with medium term planning

• A resilient and enthusiastic who responds constructively to new ideas and inputs.

• A good communicator with the ability to communicate complex ideas.

• An effective team player, actively develops and supports team members.

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Desirable:

● An individual with the ability to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style.

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What we offer (For Permanent) 

• Competitive Salary in line with level of experience 

• UK Work Visa sponsorship for eligible candidates 

• Opportunity to be part of world class product development projects 

• Pension Scheme 

• 28 Days Holidays (Annual + Bank Holidays). 

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This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can split your time between working from home and in the office. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees with more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work, if suitable for their role. Further details can be discussed with the Hiring Manager at interview stage. 

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The applications window for this position shall be closed any time as per the applications we may receive.