Senior Engineer- Structures
FORSEVEN, a revolutionary company looking to transform the EV industry through cutting-edge technology and innovative engineering practices, are seeking an exceptional Senior Engineer in Structures to join our highly skills and dynamic Engineering team.
This pivotal role will operate in a hybrid capacity out of one of our offices near Warwick or Bicester where the successful candidate will have the opportunity to work alongside some of the most visionary minds in the automotive field.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to become part of a scale-up, where your contributions will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our forward-thinking company. With its rapid growth trajectory and dynamic nature, FORSEVEN offers you an exceptional platform to help drive strategy as we expand into new horizons.
The Opportunity:
As a Senior Engineer specialising in automotive structures, you will lead the design and development of advanced vehicle architectures, ensuring the highest standards of performance, safety, and reliability. Leveraging your expertise in structural engineering and automotive design, you will contribute to the success of our projects and help drive the evolution of our automotive platform.
What you’ll do:
- Guide their team across multiple projects and ensure commonality of their specialist area across the business.
- Lead and run research and development in their field of expertise and be responsible for developing their field into the future.
- Run meetings with the design team and advise where appropriate.
- Work with suppliers on technologies, DFM while also setting company standards for quality and inspection.
- Write design & test specifications for each project and work with test houses, universities, and partners to deliver current and future technologies.
Who you are:
- Experience in composite structural design into vehicle structures.
- Design of bolted joints and lightweight fixation technologies.
- Design of supporting frames external and internal with a good understanding of load paths and light weight design solutions.
- Lateral thinking approach to stiff and light weight structures.
- Experience in mixed materials design for battery structures, composites, aluminium, and steels.
- Thorough knowledge of welding, and spot welding and design of welded joints and junctions. Understanding and design experience for HAZ.
- Experience in casting and extrusion design.
- Good understanding of various types of corrosion of dissimilar materials and preventative measures.
- Design using extrusions, pressings, ballistic and composite panels.
- Awareness and good approach to efficient light weight packaging design.
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant Crash legislation for automotive structures.
- Good understanding of CAE simulation for linear and non-linear analysis, including crash, particularly side impact pole and barrier testing.
- Experience of designing Battery structures to R100 regulations for the mechanical integrity and thermal aspects.
- Awareness and understanding of the various materials and processes for sustainability and recycling.
About us and our culture…
At FORSEVEN, we are more than just a team of professionals; we are dynamic innovators, visionary collaborators and trailblazers who believe in making a difference. Our passion lies in revolutionising the electric vehicle industry through our cutting-edge advancements and sustainable solutions that aim to transform the way transportation is perceived.
Currently operating under stealth mode, our focus is entirely directed towards achieving excellence as pioneers in creating sustainable mobility solutions which will help shape the future of transportation.
We're looking for enlightened individuals who possess an unwavering passion, relentless drive, and insatiable curiosity to question conventional norms and push beyond perceived limitations.