Electrical Update Engineer - Flamingo

Summary: The Electrical Update Engineer role at a premium automotive manufacturer in Crewe, Cheshire, involves providing technical leadership for scripting, testing, and delivering update packs using the Flamingo automated update tool. The position requires collaboration with various teams to ensure compliance with regulations and successful integration of updates into vehicle systems. This is a long-term rolling contract position, outside IR35, with a commitment of 35 hours per week. Applicants must have valid eligibility to work full-time in the UK and travel within the EU.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide a technical lead for scripting, testing and delivering updates packs to the wider business using the automated update tool, Flamingo.
• Attend the EE-Change Control Board (CCB), liaising with project teams to understand specifics, generating a bespoke test script and confirming suitability to associated baselines and System 42.
• Liaise with the CP-Tool Manager and highlight any discrepancies found when using D2C2.
• Generate Beta and Final update packs for requested project vehicles.
• Identify and create the test requirement for each Flamingo Work Package in-line with the changes (severity).
• Prove out the Flamingo updates on the allocated fleet vehicles and identify integration dependencies and check compatibility.
• Perform back end analysis on the allocated Flamingo results which were subject to a Flamingo update and oversee resolution of issues preventing the roll-out of these updates.
• Work with Aftersales, Quality and Version Management to ensure compliance to UNECE regulations relating to the update of vehicles to baselines.
• Attend the ICCB meetings to obtain advance information on new parts and ZDCs and SW that will be required in Flamingo.
• Work with the test and build support team to understand physical updates of a vehicle in advance of Flamingo scripts.
• Perform and analyse Flamingo traces.
• Understand failures during ZDC development.
• Participate in the resolution of ZDC failures using UDS Error Codes.
• Liaise with engineers within the department to ensure fixes are put in place to ensure failures are not experienced by customers.
• Provide Flamingo related support and EE recommendations to the Durability, Quality, Press & Special, and Aftersales functions when required.

Key Skills:

• Understanding of country matrix to assign standard and option PR codes to ECUs within the part structure for each project.
• Knowledge of ZDCs, their function, and structure; assist in resolving coding errors with users and engineers.
• Full understanding of UNECE 155 AND 156 and its application to CP TOOL.
• Familiarity with VW Standards for regulatory compliance.
• Proven track record in electrical fault finding and vehicle diagnosis.
• Significant experience in specifying and validating complex integrated vehicle systems.
• Experience with VAG diagnostic tools.
• Proficiency in CANalyzer/CANoe.
• Experience with multi-network dataloggers.
• Familiarity with vehicle configuration tools.
• German language skills preferable.
• Understanding of SFD Process.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Crewe

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: on-site

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

Position Title: Electrical Update Engineer - Flamingo

Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Contract, Outside IR35, 35 hours per week

On-site

*Applicants MUST have proof of immediate, on-going and valid eligibility to work full time in the UK and travel within the EU.*

I am currently recruiting on behalf of a premium automotive manufacturer who are looking for a Electrical Update Engineer to join their team on a long term rolling contract basis.

Job description:

As a Electrical Update Engineer your main responsibilities are:

• You will provide a technical lead for scripting, testing and delivering updates packs to the wider business using the automated update tool, Flamingo.
• Attending the EE-Change Control Board (CCB), liaising with project teams to understand specifics, generating a bespoke test script and confirming suitability to associated baselines and System 42.
• Liaising with the CP-Tool Manager and highlighting any discrepancies which are found when using D2C2.
• Generate Beta, and Final update packs for requested project vehicle
• Identify and create the test requirement for each Flamingo Work Package in-line with the changes (severity).
• To prove out the Flamingo updates on the allocated fleet vehicles and identifying integration dependencies and checking compatibility.
• Perform back end analysis on the allocated Flamingo results which were subject to a Flamingo update and oversee resolution of issues preventing the roll-out of these updates.
• Work with Aftersales, Quality and Version Management to ensure compliance to UNECE regulations relating to the update of vehicles to baselines.
• Attend the ICCB meetings to obtain advance information on new parts and ZDCs and SW that will be required in Flamingo.
• Work with the test and build support team to understand physical updates of a vehicle in advance of Flamingo scripts.
• Perform and analyse Flamingo traces
• Understanding of failures during ZDC development.
• Participate in the resolution of ZDC failures using UDS Error Codes.
• Liaise with engineers within the department to ensure fixes are put in place to ensure failures are not experienced by customers. - shadow fixes
• Provide Flamingo related support and EE recommendations to the Durability, Quality, Press & Special, and Aftersales functions when required

Qualifications/Skills needed

• Understanding of country matrix as to assign standard and option PR codes to ECUs within the part structure for each project.
• Knowledge of ZDCs, what they do, how they are structured. Help to resolve coding errors with users and engineers.
• Full understanding of UNECE 155 AND 156 and its application to CP TOOL
• VW Standards for regulatory compliance
• Proven track record in electrical fault finding and vehicle diagnosis
• Significant experience in specifying and validating complex integrated vehicle systems
• VAG diagnostic tool
• CANalyzer/CANoe
• Multi-network dataloggers
• Vehicle configuration tools
• German language preferable
• SFD Process understanding