Vehicle Programmes Engineering for Luxury Automotive Brand
Gradfuel, United Kingdom
Job Description
We are looking for graduates to join our Vehicle Programme team.
Vehicle Programmes offers a truly cross-functional experience spanning product strategy, programme management, business performance, cross-carline and commodity strategy, and programme purchasing.
You will use your innovation and creativity to the full every day, as you develop all the skills for a fast-moving career. With ongoing support from industry-leading experts, backed by continual learning opportunities, you’ll quickly realise that our programmes are as inspiring as the vehicles you’ll help to create.
During your programme, you could initially be assigned to one of three key areas below or placed within our company quality team. Along the way, you will gain a customer-centric view of satisfying evolving needs and accelerating delivery to reduce time-to-market, using Agile principles to transform the way we think and work.
Programme Management
This team’s purpose is to integrate the enterprise to deliver commercially successful products on time and to quality standards, which fulfil our brand and customer promise throughout their lifecycles. As such, we work with all areas across the business to realise our product programmes, so roles with us give great exposure to the entire business.
Business Performance
Business Performance optimises our vehicles’ profitability and ensures that they remain highly competitive in a rapidly evolving marketplace. To make this happen, you will identify growth opportunities, support risk mitigation actions and improve our vehicles’ margins, using data insights to develop focused plans addressing a balanced mix of market, revenue and cost opportunities.
Transformation
Bringing our Reimagine strategy to life, the Transformation team leads the delivery of far-reaching workstreams that will profoundly change the way we think and work. In particular, you will support our adoption of agile methodologies in product delivery, spanning both strategy and implementation.
Company Quality
High quality is the key to ensuring that we deliver our vision of being proud creators of modern luxury. Company Quality underpins the whole enterprise to deliver the operational framework and touches all parts of the vehicle lifecycle from creation right through to runout, including digital and transformation.
After a significant learning period, there will be regular opportunities to move around product compliance and learn about other areas of quality and the business this could be in regulation, certification, conformity of production (CoP) or investigations. Wherever you are based, you will quickly gain a deep understanding of regulatory change whilst working with engineering colleagues to ensure certification adherence, developing CoP plans for every vehicle, and investigating and resolving any compliance escapes.
Requirements
You will need to be on track to achieve at least a 2.2 degree in:
- Science
- Technology
- Engineering and Maths (STEM)
- Business or Management discipline.
Benefits
- Starting salary 29,000
- 2,000 joining bonus
- We are UK’s largest investor in automotive research, development and engineering.
- We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive culture that is representative of the society in which we live; a culture in which every one of our employees can bring their authentic self to work and reach their full potential.
- We employ almost 40,000 people across the globe and continue to employ and re-skill our talent for our modern luxury, all-electric future.
- People are the soul of our business.
- Engage in a learning programme, delivered by an industry-recognised provider.
- Develop core skills and technical expertise tailored to your programme.
- Learn and grow from industry-leading experts with your personal and professional development as their focus together, we achieve great things!
- Join a community of Graduates and early careers hires. From rock-climbing and football to coffee roulettes and a summer ball there’s lots to enjoy!
- Apply your degree. Lead crucial projects. Make an impact across your two-year programme. Become a rounded professional and unlock your future career.