HV Battery Wiring Harness Engineer - 39996 (841)

Seeking an HV Battery Wiring Harness Engineer to join a leading automotive team, focusing on HV battery wiring harness and junction box design. This role involves leading the design, validation, and integration of high-voltage components while ensuring compliance with quality and performance standards. Ideal candidates have experience in electrical component design, FMEA processes, and automotive or related industries (aviation, marine, motorsport).

Position Description:
This is a maternity cover position - joining the electrical distribution system (EDS) team working on HV Battery wiring harness & junction box design.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of the HVJB commodity including geometry, cost, weight, quality, validation, sourcing and functional performance, providing technical guidance to the junior engineers working on the design.
• Ownership of core Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), including related documents (e.g. boundary and interface analysis).
• Drive a robust integration between 3D CAD, Circuits, complexity and 2D drawings ensuring the full alignment Create / provide all the required documentation / plans to support virtual builds, validation plans (PDP181, 5 step validation plan)
• Liaison with key suppliers to develop technology roadmap and support standards development and issue resolution.
• Lead cross functional root cause analysis and resolution of issues using 8D / Six Sigma Methodology.
• Escalate and communicate issues and roadblocks for arbitration suggesting solutions to powertrain and vehicle management.

• Previous experience of engineering components in automotive sector (or equivalent engineering sector - e.g. aviation / marine / motorsport), or on a research / technical position developing component / material specifications.
• Experience of design and / or validation of electrical components.
• Ideal skill set is prior knowledge of: Wiring Harness / High Voltage Junction box / Fuse box, willing to consider transferrable skills from other electrical parts.
• Some evidence of ability to do Failure Mode Avoidance & work focusing on engineering quality and validation.
• Any out of: FMEA / DFMEA / PFMEA / authoring design rules / requirements / validation of component against requirements