Electronical Design Leader

Based in France, Novares is a global supplier of plastic solutions that designs and manufactures complex components and systems that serve the future of the automotive industry. 

The company creates and produces advanced automotive solutions with technical plastic injection for greener, lighter and connected cars with intelligent and intuitive interfaces for all passengers. 

Novares co-develops and provides engineering and manufacturing expertise to virtually every OEM in the world and many Tier 1 companies in the automotive market. 

Novares, which is behind the construction of one in three vehicles in the world, achieved a turnover of 1.1 billion euros in 2021, thanks to its presence in 22 countries, its 40 manufacturing plants, its 7 centers of expertise, its 7 technical centers and 20 customer service centers around the world to partner with customers. 

www.novaresteam.com 

Purpose 

As an electronical design leader, you will be responsible for the coordination, translation, development of our OEM customer requirements of the future automotive systems, in cooperation with our innovation teams. 

You will manage technical relations with customers and identifies customer needs and supervises the resulting co-innovation projects.  

You will support RFQ team for innovation project to build offer and technical presentation.  

You will build specification and follow project development with our suppliers – Hardware / software.  

Responsibilities 

Customer relation: 

• Manage and performs technical customer lobbying activities to capture innovation requirements 

• Establish the system specifications with customers: understand their needs and translate them into actionable requirements for the functional disciplines 

• Acts as the technical interface with the customer up to the customer's decision and explains the technical solutions (pre-project) 

• Draws up and presents the technical proposal to the customer (pre-project) 

• Supervises co-innovation projects with customers in accordance with the defined resources, budgets and deadlines. 

Design: 

• Performs an initial technical analysis of customers' new requirements and define the specification 

• Track the work packages for ME, HW, SW, Test 

• Lead the Impact Analysis of customer change requests  

• Review the design documents of the subcomponents 

• Coordinate the detailed planning of the Research and Development 

• Coordinate projects between OEM, Tier1, and Sub-contractors 

• Supporting the specification and verification of Testcases for system testing 

• Specification and execution of unit, module, and integration testing 

• Reviewing and improving validation and verification test plans 

Process improvement 

• Support of the continuous improvement process (CIP) in terms of development methodology (ASPICE), project management, utilised tools and technologies, training, etc. 

General duties 

• Lead and moderate cross functional technical workshops including requirements reviews 

• Support quote teams by analyzing the customer specifications and documenting the quote assumptions in a quick and efficient way 

• Willing to travel to the customers 

• Following: rules related to workplace health and safety, ESD guidelines, protection of company property 

• To work in collaboration with other teams as necessary.   

External relationships: 

• Represent Novares Group and as such, is expected to behave respectfully to other employees and company visitors.  

• Comply with the confidentiality agreement signed when you joined the company.  

Soft skills 

• Out of the box thinker, capable of proposing new ideas and defending them, to get teams buy-ins to implement such ideas 

• Sense of confidentiality, integrity, and ethics 

• High level of rigor, organizational skills, and good analytical skills 

• Strong verbal and written communication, and presentation skills 

• Good resistance to stress 

• Diplomatic and consensual 

• Able to work effectively within a team environment  

Requirements 

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering or related field 

• 5 years of experience in automotive embedded development mandatory (HW or System)  

• Professional verbal and written communication skills with fluency in English 

• Project Management in innovation and / or Team management (transversal)