Job description
Position Title: Technical Engineering Assistant
Duration: Contract
Location: Woking, Surrey (1 day per week from home)
Reporting to:
- Vehicle Design Engineering Director (VDE)
Essential Criteria:
- The Client is looking for a Technical Engineering Assistant to work within engineering department and assist with the report out / launch of their new sport & super car models.
- The Technical Engineering Assistant will be supporting a Director within the organisation, our Client is looking for a driven individual who is looking to gain experience and grow within the organisation, who has a technical interest within an automotive company sports / supercar OEM.
Role Description:
- Technical assistance to the VDE Director to get ready technical documentation/presentations/
- Delivery of accurate and detailed reports to Directors and Managers
- Complete power point presentations for the Engineering Director to use
- Prepare Excel files, with Data analysis, graphs, pivot table, etc..
- Support VDE Director in preparation of all documents necessary for Team Performance Evaluation
- Monitor and report gateway inputs
- Support VDE Director and senior manager meetings
- Progress the engineering team for deliverables
- Record and maintain all minutes of meetings for action plan delivery
- VDE Team KPI reporting
- Ad-hoc reports / analysis / projects as required
- VDE HC monitoring on a weekly base, orga charts update, banding and salary tracking
- VDE HC Budget monitoring
- Preparation of yearly Quarterly reviews
Skills and Attributes (Required):
- Excellent communication & interpersonal and influencing skills
- Excellent standard of reports and document delivery
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Technical mind-set with the ability to support technical delivery expectations
- Good team worker and Positive Attitude/Motivation
- Excellent office skills
- Diligent
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excel high level
- Power point / presentations high level
- Excellent IT skills, specifically advanced MS Excel & PowerPoint
- SAP data understanding
- Analytical & presentation skills
- Writes clearly and succinctly, avoiding jargon/complicated language and ensuring that documentation is logically structured, meeting the needs and level of understanding of the intended audience.
- Ability to work on own initiative, adapting and responding to change - accepts new ideas and change initiatives when they arise, can adapt interpersonal style to suit different people or situations and shows respect and sensitivity towards differences
- Time-management skills
- Ability to pay attention to detail
- Organization skills
- Ability to multitask
Skills and Attributes (Preferred):
- Experience as a technical engineering assistant or similar
- Automotive / Engineering technical education