Position Title: Electrical Update Engineer - Flamingo

Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Contract, Outside IR35, 35 hours per week

On-site

*Applicants MUST have proof of immediate, on-going and valid eligibility to work full time in the UK and travel within the EU.*

I am currently recruiting on behalf of a premium automotive manufacturer who are looking for a Electrical Update Engineer to join their team on a long term rolling contract basis.

Job description:

As a Electrical Update Engineer your main responsibilities are:

• You will provide a technical lead for scripting, testing and delivering updates packs to the wider business using the automated update tool, Flamingo.
• Attending the EE-Change Control Board (CCB), liaising with project teams to understand specifics, generating a bespoke test script and confirming suitability to associated baselines and System 42.
• Liaising with the CP-Tool Manager and highlighting any discrepancies which are found when using D2C2.
• Generate Beta, and Final update packs for requested project vehicle
• Identify and create the test requirement for each Flamingo Work Package in-line with the changes (severity).
• To prove out the Flamingo updates on the allocated fleet vehicles and identifying integration dependencies and checking compatibility.
• Perform back end analysis on the allocated Flamingo results which were subject to a Flamingo update and oversee resolution of issues preventing the roll-out of these updates.
• Work with Aftersales, Quality and Version Management to ensure compliance to UNECE regulations relating to the update of vehicles to baselines.
• Attend the ICCB meetings to obtain advance information on new parts and ZDCs and SW that will be required in Flamingo.
• Work with the test and build support team to understand physical updates of a vehicle in advance of Flamingo scripts.
• Perform and analyse Flamingo traces
• Understanding of failures during ZDC development.
• Participate in the resolution of ZDC failures using UDS Error Codes.
• Liaise with engineers within the department to ensure fixes are put in place to ensure failures are not experienced by customers. - shadow fixes
• Provide Flamingo related support and EE recommendations to the Durability, Quality, Press & Special, and Aftersales functions when required

Qualifications/Skills needed

• Understanding of country matrix as to assign standard and option PR codes to ECUs within the part structure for each project.
• Knowledge of ZDCs, what they do, how they are structured. Help to resolve coding errors with users and engineers.
• Full understanding of UNECE 155 AND 156 and its application to CP TOOL
• VW Standards for regulatory compliance
• Proven track record in electrical fault finding and vehicle diagnosis
• Significant experience in specifying and validating complex integrated vehicle systems
• VAG diagnostic tool
• CANalyzer/CANoe
• Multi-network dataloggers
• Vehicle configuration tools
• German language preferable
• SFD Process understanding