Body Interior
Posted Today by Gazelle Global
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Body Interior – Cabin Safety Lead Engineer will oversee the complete development of cabin safety and restraint systems from concept to launch, ensuring technical delivery, supplier management, and validation while focusing on cost, weight, and quality. The role requires strong experience in automotive safety systems and collaboration with various stakeholders to meet program milestones and compliance standards. The engineer will also be responsible for maintaining technical documentation and driving validation processes. A hands-on approach and confidence in making engineering decisions are essential for success in this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivering engineering solutions for prototype and production parts
- Owning cabin safety and restraint system development
- Optimising designs for cost, weight, quality and manufacturability
- Managing suppliers and hitting programme milestones
- Ensuring compliance with OEM processes, PLM standards and regulations
- Collaborating with manufacturing, CAE and senior stakeholders
- Driving validation, testing and build support
- Maintaining BOMs, DFMEAs, drawings and technical documentation
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in automotive cabin safety and restraint systems
- Solid knowledge of regulations and homologation
- Hands on experience with plastics, tooling and manufacturing processes
- Proven capability in concept design, packaging and surface development
- Confident managing suppliers and complex programmes
- CATIA V5 experience is essential, V6 and 3DX highly desirable
- Comfortable working independently and making engineering calls
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Coventry
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Body Interior – Cabin Safety Lead Engineer Contract | Coventry | Leading OEM via Major Consultancy
The role
You will lead end to end development of cabin safety and restraint systems from concept through to launch. Full ownership of technical delivery, supplier management and validation, with a sharp eye on cost, weight and quality. VAVE is not a buzzword here, it is expected.
What you will be doing
- Delivering engineering solutions for prototype and production parts
- Owning cabin safety and restraint system development
- Optimising designs for cost, weight, quality and manufacturability
- Managing suppliers and hitting programme milestones
- Ensuring compliance with OEM processes, PLM standards and regulations
- Collaborating with manufacturing, CAE and senior stakeholders
- Driving validation, testing and build support
- Maintaining BOMs, DFMEAs, drawings and technical documentation
What you need
- Strong experience in automotive cabin safety and restraint systems
- Solid knowledge of regulations and homologation
- Hands on experience with plastics, tooling and manufacturing processes
- Proven capability in concept design, packaging and surface development
- Confident managing suppliers and complex programmes
- CATIA V5 experience is essential, V6 and 3DX highly desirable
- Comfortable working independently and making engineering calls
Nice to have
- VAVE mindset with the confidence to challenge designs
- Structured problem solving experience such as 8D, 5 Whys or Six Sigma
If you are an experienced cabin safety engineer who actually enjoys accountability and delivery, this one is worth a conversation.