Purpose of the Role:
You’ll be designing, engineering, integrating & delivering, from concept to production, Power Battery Systems (batteries with a focus on high power), ensuring that they fulfil all the programme requirements (cost, timing, performance / function / attributes).
Principal Accountabilities:
- Guarantee ESS delivery to all vehicle projects – to specification, on time and on budget.
- Understand and support the package constraints for the ESS. Work with ESS suppliers, McLaren Concept team & Digital Mock-Up team (DMU), Dimensional Management team (DM) and other Engineering teams to ensure programme-specific ESS meet technical and package targets.
- Establish links and deliver projects with external organisations such as universities and research organisations, that will help McLaren deliver innovation in ESS technologies. Collaborate with the Engineering Manager/Principal Engineer of ESS and Head of EDT to ensure such projects are aligned with the ESS Technology Road-map, and produce vehicle project-relevant results.
- Working within, and influence, the Vehicle Programme & Engineering Management teams to ensure that the EDT department responsibilities collectively deliver the whole vehicle targets.
- Guide ESS designers to deliver detailed designs on time, to predetermined quality, cost and weight targets, within Design for Manufacture (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) constraints
- Work with the designers and suppliers to achieve efficient, innovative and lightweight designs.
- Ensure design solutions deliver systems that meet attribute targets such as NVH, thermal, durability, performance (power, emissions, and response).
- Ensure the ESS components interface seamlessly to the wider car including structural interfaces, electrical distribution system, cooling components & body panels.
- Works with Supply Chain Management to ensure delivery of the ESS on schedule for all phases of prototype, pilot, pre-production and production build.
- Prepare and present material to support external and internal project status reviews
- Undertake ESS technical risk management to ensure project delivery, optimised vehicle performance and delivery of EDT system attributes.
- Support calibration of the Battery Management System (BMS)
Knowledge, skills and experience
- A high level of technical knowledge & experience of ESS design, test & production delivery
- Experience in Mechanical, Electrical and Thermal ESS design, packaging & release
- Experience in the behaviour and characterisation of electro-chemical cells
- Good CATIA V5 2D/3D skills with GD&T application experience
- Integration of ESS embedded systems such as Battery Management System (BMS)
- Detailed understanding of Li-Ion technologies, Ultra/Supercapacitor storage solutions, BMS, Functional Safety and High Voltage Switchgear design
- Experience in cell, module and pack testing to facilitate data gathering and analysis
- Experience of testing with HiL (Hardware in the Loop) and Rig systems to prove integration of electric drive elements and other sub-systems.
- Experience of delivering DVP, FMEA and DFM for ESS
- Experience of control-system software-flashing, data recording/viewing and calibration tools
- Experienced in OEM or tier one component delivery
- Mechanical, Electrical/Electronic or Automotive Engineering Degree 2:1 or above
Personal Attributes:
- Technical expert in high performance Energy Storage System (ESS) engineering
- Good team skills, willingness to work cross-functionally with excellent communication skills.
- 2-3 years automotive design and development experience
- Logical and methodical approach to problem solving.
- An ability to deliver under pressure with an appetite for measured success.
- A passion for high-performance ESS engineering.
- Collaborative working with people with a diverse range of backgrounds.
- A positive, proactive attitude with a high level of self-motivation to deliver excellence.
- Ambitious and self-reliant - intrinsically self-motivated.