Expleo Group
Vehicle Integration Leader
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Expleo is recruiting a Vehicle Integration Leader to support one of our key automotive customers in Warwickshire. This is a contract opportunity for an experienced engineering leader to drive the development of new and existing vehicle architectures, integrating new technologies while ensuring functional and attribute target delivery across the whole vehicle.
You will act as the technical authority and voice of the customer, leading arbitration where required and ensuring robust, efficient, and customer-focused vehicle solutions.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
- Accountable as the leader and technical arbitrator, integrating and delivering engineering for the whole vehicle whilst ensuring compatibility with GRID, commodity/system strategies, and functional targets
- Lead Group functional integration for the given vehicle to reduce complexity and deliver efficient technical solutions
- Work closely with the Vehicle Attribute Robustness team to ensure embedded design quality, service, and manufacturing requirements are delivered
- Drive vehicle technical data progression (CAD, DV, AIMS, Build, Test & Releasing, etc.) with engineering groups and interfacing team leads
- Oversee alignment on and delivery of the Minimum Viable Product into both virtual and physical verification and validation throughout the programme lifecycle
- Drive cross-group obstacle resolution, ensuring timely escalation to nameplate and/or Architecture VEM as required
- Ensure prompt escalation of technical blockers and incompatibilities via the Obstacle process
- Support study work and Agile spike activities to resolve complex engineering problems
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Essential:
- Automotive technical knowledge and extensive experience with complex system interactions, including technical analysis and decision-making
- Demonstrated understanding of automotive technology with advanced technical depth across vehicle, system, and component design, development, and delivery
- Ability to interrogate and ratify incoming technical standards, system, and component assumptions
- Excellent written and verbal technical communication with strong influencing and negotiation skills
- Experience leading teams to solve complex technical issues using structured methodologies such as 8D and/or Six Sigma
- Project management experience delivering against complex programme technical deliverables
- A customer-first mindset; easy to do business with and focused on delivering personalised, transparent, and dependable experiences
- Progressive thinker with a strong interest in new ideas and industry developments
- Ability to embrace and champion Agile principles in practice
- Resilience with strong stakeholder engagement skills and confidence to challenge constructively
- Demonstrated leadership capability with the ability to motivate, develop, and lead cross-functional and functional teams
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