Lead architect, Electrical Engineering and Vehicle connectivity (EEVC)

Are you interested in developing new technologies for advanced transport solutions? Does the opportunity to work in a global organization on an exciting journey towards a sustainable future excite you? Would you like to work in an enthusiastic and collaborative atmosphere surrounded by highly skilled colleagues to learn and share knowledge?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! Electrical Engineering and Vehicle connectivity, EEVC Gothenburg is seeking a Lead Electrical Architect to join our team. Read on for more details!

Who We Are

Our team, Electrical Engineering and Vehicle connectivity, is a part of Volvo Group Europe's Vehicle Engineering function.. We develop and maintain components, systems, and complete Electrical hardware solutions for diesel, electric and autonomous vehicles for the heavy duty FM, FH and RT products in the EU market.

We are a team of highly motivated and skilled engineers who supports a cross-functional team in resolving topology, packaging and geometry issues between different commodities. Our jobs are crucial for driving issue resolution and making sure that our offerings meet the expectations of our customers. The team works on component placement, system-level validation, media verification, and assessments of augmented and virtual reality.

What You Will be Doing

As a Lead l Architect, you will lead engineers from groups such as CAB wiring, CHassis wiring, Emob wiring, Power distribution, connectors and sensors & HMI in cross functional work including physical architecture to optimize the diversity of the layouts versus the total variant offering required to cover the customer needs and applications.

You will be involved in project pre-studies and early feasibility assessments for new applications and technology. Key deliverables for the Lead Geometrical Architect include space allocation and packaging concept feasibility in early phase, key chassis interface definitions (GICs), optimization of component locations and clash free geometrical packaging.

You will collaborate closely with Design teams, Aftermarket and Manufacturing Engineering for validating and industrializing the designed solutions.

Additional Responsibilities Include:

• Drive packaging meetings and the geometrical work forward in an efficient way.
• Propose solutions for complete offer scenario/packaging to meet application and customer requirements.
• Analyze and propose common solutions that can support all brands to minimize part numbers and maximize common parts (Common Architecture & Shared Technologies).
• Perform pre-study analysis, present consequences, and propose the way forward.
• Contribute to improve our process, methods, and tools so we can perform better in the future.
• Involve in geometry verification plan (virtual builds, physical builds B/C, DMU structure) to improve CAD maturity & quality

Who You Are

You are a highly technical engineer with a strong understand for vehicle architecture. You are action-oriented and understand the importance of meeting deadlines. You appreciate collaboration and sharing difference of opinions while always keeping the focus of the customer. You strive to contribute to improving processes, methods, and tools to ensure the team performs even better in the future.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• 8-12+ years of product development experience
• A firm understanding of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing philosophy and applications
• Complete vehicle and/or Electrical system knowledge
• Experience with CAD
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams to communicate and agree on the designs for assembly, cost, sourcing, and aftermarket servicing
• Product Data management experience, a big plus if you have experience from Volvo PDM system KOLA
• Project management experience is a merit, as is excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred:

• Heavy duty truck development
• Project management experience is a merit
• Experience with Volvo PDM system KOLA

Are you ready to join our team and shape the future of the transportation industry together with us?

Are you interested? Contact us!

Dighe, Shaunak +46 739020721

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