On-Cycle Weights Engineer

Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for a On-Cycle Weights Engineer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position with a proposed end date of 31^st March 2027.

Umbrella Pay Rate: £33.64 per hour.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• An On-Cycle (i.e. programme delivery) Weights Engineering role requires assisting with, or ownership of the attribute for the programme, encompassing (but not limited to):
• Lead the coordination of vehicle weight data across all functional owners.
• Own programme‑level weight targets, including setting, balancing, and reporting status to Integration and senior teams. Utilisation of set control models to determine the mass and loads of all buildable derivatives on the programme
• Lead resolution of key mass related issues, including loads, distribution, and target gaps.
• Calculate (where appropriate) vehicle mass properties from geometry & first principles
• Coordinate generation & maintenance of Vehicle Mass Property models
• Lead creation and validation of Loading Charts, ensuring limits are feasible and issues are resolved.
• Conduct verification of weight for prototype & production vehicles
• Lead the certification of vehicle masses with appropriate authorities
• Lead in market weight monitoring to ensure vehicles remain within tolerance.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Define competitive vehicle targets, using benchmarking insights to guide programme direction.
• Monitor and report vehicle status against targets, ensuring readiness and transparency at all programme gateways.
• Lead administration of the RMDV requirements system, ensuring robust evidence of test and validation compliance.
• Deliver Vehicle Loading Charts and Parametric Models in line with programme milestones and standards.
• Produce programme health panel charts to support gateway reviews and decision‑making.
• Generate certification data to enable timely homologation and regulatory approval.

Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience Required:

• Customer-focused mindset geared towards understanding and delivering the needs of internal customers and end users.
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of Weight and Mass Properties and its interaction with other vehicle Attributes.
• Able to prioritise own time and workload.
• Aptitude for engineering, testing and evaluation. Able to work precisely and to specified procedures.
• Prepared to work autonomously at all sites, establishing and maintaining relations with local staff.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience Requested:

• Engineering, Maths or Physics degree qualified.
• Whole vehicle engineering knowledge & cross functional experience.
• Knowledge of technologies associated with the automotive sector, especially relating to weight reduction.
• Microsoft package elements Project, Power Point and Excel.

Education Preferred:

• Engineering, Maths or Physics degree qualified preferred.