Senior Systems Engineer

Key Responsibilities
 

• Cross Domain (SWE, HWE, MEE) technical leadership of the development of a mechatronic product, consistent with stakeholder requirements, quality and safety throughout the product lifecycle (EOL, Service, Manufacturing..) Ensure customer satisfaction.
• Lead development of system requirements, architecture, simulation, integration, verification, validation, calibration and releases for related workproducts.
• Lead continuous improvement of processes, methods, and tools related to systems management and their interfaces.
• Approve and manage product development timelines incl. resource planning in systems engineering for projects and represent the progress of product development according to the defined timing to project management and GKN Leaderschip.
• Define and apply reuse strategy and reuse configuration space in a application project
• Create, maintain and align system implementation plan throughout the lifecycle of the product and communicate the customer expectation and goals to project members.
• Lead development of alternative solutions to meet product costs (e.g. design to cost) considering customer requirements and satisfaction.
• Approval of requirements elicitation procedure, integration and qualification strategy, final calibrated parameter from stability and safety perspective for controls features.
• Perform technical project control by applying metrics (e.g. burndown-diagram / coverage) according to defined KPIs. Define and lead countermeasures to ensure project remains on track.
• Manages resources and deliver according to project budget within systems engineering. Ensure that assigned workpackages are planned, agreed and delivered according to plan.
• Collect effort estimation for System Engineering according to defined processes and methods. Lead consolidation and optimization of efforts for Systems Engineering activities.
• Lead resolution of technical issues arising during mechatronic integration & testing according to Change, Problem, Configuration and Risk Management. Escalate accordingly.
• Represent System Engineering within the whole organization, at external conferences and at customer / suppliers as an expert and strengthen the network with external experts.
• Provide technical advice for product/system roadmap definition based on expert knowledge of GKN specific technologies and customer use cases.
   

Essential Qualifications & Experience

Requirements:
 

• 5 years of experience as i.e. System Engineer / System Controls Engineer / System Architect or similar
• 1 year of experience in supporting Quality & Test
• 1 year of experience in problem resolution and project management
• Experience of working in Continuous Integration & Deployment environment
• Degree: Masters in Engineering (Mechanical / Electrical / Electronics, Mechatronics) / Masters in Physics or similar
• Advance understanding of systems engineering – Especially in regards to requirements engineering, system architecture and testing.
• Advanced knowledge of powertrain products such as gearboxes and limited slip differentials
• Advanced knowledge of feature planning and project management
• Advanced knowledge of technical leadership within Systems Engineering domain
• Basic knowledge of electrical hardware, preferably in ECUs
• Basic knowledge of SW development
• Experience with handling Japanese automotive OEMs
• Drivers License in Japan
• Language:
   

English : Fluent / Japanese : Fluent (JLPT: N1-N2 level)

Experience

Language: English : Fluent Japanese : Fluent (JLPT: N1-N2 level)

(Experienced engineer at a Japanese automotive supplier, with extensive professional use of English in collaboration with native speakers from Europe and North America.).

Toolskills:

Microsoft Office Standard Tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project etc.)

Windchill RV&S (Integrity Lifecycle Manager + Source)

PTC Windchill

Activity Management Tool

Softskills

Leadership

Business acumen

Conflict management

Decision making

Excellent communication

Good negotiation skills

Customer focused

Time management

Team Player