Design Studio Engineer

Studio Design EngineerType: Temporary contractor, ongoing through Hays (inside IR35)Location: ChichesterWorking Environment: Hybrid, part office based on site at client offices/ part home basedPay type:Competitive hourly pay rateStart date: ASAP
The OpportunityThe world's pre-eminent super-luxury automotive brand. Our base is in Goodwood, near Chichester, West Sussex, and comprises of our global headquarters and Global Centre of Luxury Manufacturing Excellence.
For our client everything they do starts with passion. It turns a profession into a vocation. It drives us to keep reinventing mobility and to bring innovative ideas onto the roads. Enthusiasm for joint projects turns our departments into a strong team where every opinion is valued. It is only when expertise, highly professional processes and enjoyment of work are united that we can shape the future together.
To provide creative technical solutions and support for all aspects of design for Bespoke Design on all products and implement with whole vehicle concepts in conjunction with multiple specialist departments. The Studio Design Engineer is responsible for all technical requests during the product development process in close collaboration with the Designers and the partners of research & development, production and suppliers. Their work starts with the first concepts, is ongoing with virtual (CAS) and 3D physical models (Clay, hard models, concept vehicles) and ends with final convergence between styling and engineering. They provide the designers and the manufacturing teams with the necessary technical information at the complete
design-technic-convergency-process (DTK). They identify the conflicts between styling and technical concepts, accompany the design-technic-convergency-process continuously with technical investigations and conceptual alternatives and brings the non-convergent themes by all suitable means to a final decision.

Key Accountabilities:1 - Technical Integration : Commission Collection, Private Collections, Special CommissionsResponsibility - Generate technical design solutions and steer and mediate designers' input for Commission Collection featuresOutcome - Generate innovative and deliverable engineering solutions in conjunction with ED-R designers2 - Create geometry in CATIAResponsibility - Ensure that ED-R designs are represented in a feasible manner (including fixing concepts) in CATIAOutcome - Clear and transparent steering and definition of design intent for design release.3 - Technical representative to departments outside EDResponsibility -
Member of the DTK-process and maintain records, technical drawings and comparisons for necessary staff meetings and independently schedule and support mandatory reviews.Outcome - Clear point of contact and communication within the various technical meetings and sign-off processes to achieve technical convergence
and escalation of technical points4 - Goodwood-Munich Technical InterfaceResponsibility - Act as technical liaison between Munich engineering and Goodwood ED-R Bespoke DesignOutcome - Enable closer relations and more effective communication and transparent implementation of Bespoke designs
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- Design TranslationResponsibility -
Translate the design/styling language into technical solutions and the technical input into design/styling languageOutcome - To support the progression of the R-R brand by generating new and desirable ideas for the future in Bespoke and Concept Design
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