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Vehicle Integration Leader

Job Posted: 8 days ago

Salary: £ 30 - 34 / Hour
Job Type: Contract
Location: Warwick, Warwickshire

Expire in: 19 days

Job Description

Vehicle Integration Leader

Order Reference: (phone number removed)
 Contract Opportunity
 Location: Gaydon

The Opportunity

This is a high‑impact leadership role for an experienced Vehicle Integration Leader to shape the delivery of next‑generation vehicle programmes. You will sit at the heart of vehicle development, influencing architecture decisions, integrating advanced technologies, and ensuring whole‑vehicle engineering excellence from concept through to production.

You will operate as a senior technical authority, balancing innovation, quality, and delivery while collaborating with a broad network of engineering and programme leaders.

Your Impact

As Vehicle Integration Leader, you will:

Lead whole‑vehicle technical integration, ensuring alignment to GRID, commodity strategies, and functional targets
Drive the successful integration of new technologies into existing and future vehicle architectures
Act as the voice of the customer, providing technical arbitration and decision‑making at key programme milestones
Reduce system complexity by delivering efficient, well‑balanced engineering solutions
Embed design quality, robustness, serviceability, and manufacturability through close collaboration with Attribute Robustness teams
Own vehicle technical data progression across CAD, DV, AIMS, build, test, and release activities
Oversee delivery of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) through virtual and physical verification and validation across the programme lifecycle
Proactively identify, manage, and resolve cross‑functional technical obstacles, ensuring timely escalation where required
Champion Agile ways of working, supporting engineering studies and spike activities to solve complex problems

What You Bring

Technical Leadership & Expertise:

Extensive automotive engineering experience with proven whole‑vehicle systems integration capability
Deep technical understanding across vehicle, system, and component design and delivery
Strong ability to challenge, validate, and ratify technical assumptions, standards, and solutions
Proven experience leading teams through complex engineering trade‑offs and decision‑makingDelivery & Influence:

Excellent technical communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
Strong programme and project delivery experience within complex, multi‑disciplinary environments
Demonstrated use of structured problem‑solving methodologies (e.g. 8D, Six Sigma)
Confident, resilient leader able to challenge constructively and build trust at senior levelsMindset & Approach:

Customer‑first, delivery‑focused professional who is easy to work with
Forward‑thinking individual with a strong interest in emerging technologies and industry trends
Experienced in Agile delivery models and comfortable acting as an Agile advocate
Proven leader of cross‑functional teams, capable of motivating, developing, and aligning diverse stakeholders

Key Relationships

You will work closely with:

Programme Group Leads (PGL) and interfacing zone leadership
STGL and Vehicle Engineering Managers (VEM)
Engineering Delivery Director
Technology Centre Leadership
Architecture and Vehicle Programme Product Owners
Lead Engineers across Engineering Delivery and Design
External specialists, suppliers, and technical partners

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to influence vehicle architecture at scale, work on technically complex programmes, and operate at senior leadership level within a world‑class automotive engineering environment

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