Calibration Engineer
Northampton
£30,000 - £35,000 pa



Benefits: Pension, Healthcare, 25 Days Holiday, Flexitime
Commutable From: Northampton, Wellingborough, Rushden, Kettering, Bedford, Daventry, Corby, Northamptonshire
Experience: EMS, Test/Testing, Calibration
One of the Worlds Leading Suppliers of Automotive Components are currently looking for a Calibration Engineer to join their successful team in Northamptonshire.
The Calibration Engineer will be required to carry out dyno and vehicle based calibration development, analyse results to calibrate powertrain control system and support the validation and release of the calibrations into production.
The Role
The duties and responsibilities of the successful Calibration Engineer would be as follows:
- To develop workload and facility plans to support the calibration project
- To carry out engine dyno mapping and control system hardware characterisation
- To develop tailpipe and evaporative emissions to meet development targets and legislative requirements
- To develop and calibration the vehicle on-board diagnostic system
- Driveability development to meet customer objectives
- To prepare and perform/lead hot climate/cold climate and high altitude development to meet customer objectives
- To prepare reports and presentations as part of the calibration documentation for status reviews and to support sign-off
- To carry out validation testing for the release of the powertrain control system calibration
The Person
We are looking to hear from candidates with the following skills and experience:
- A Degree in Mechanical or Automotive Engineering or a HNC/D with relevant experience
- An appropriate Professional qualification
- Good PC / IT literacy
- Matlab/Simulink application skills (preferred)
- German language skills (fluent preferred)
- Effective communicator
- Good planning and organisation
- At least 2 years experience in an OEM or preferably consultancy environment
- Torque based EMS experience (ideally including Bosch EMS)
- Testing on both test bed and in-vehicle
- Calibration and validation ideally including mapping, emissions, driveability and OBD.
- Model based data optimisation
- Team player
- Works effectively unsupervised
- Self motivated and confident
M-Tec Recruitment are a leading supplier of Permanent, Interim and Project Management Recruitment Solutions to the Automotive and General Engineering sectors.
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Established in 2001, M-Tec Recruitment has developed a reputation as one of the industries leading suppliers of permanent and contract recruitment jobs into the automotive, aerospace, engineering, electronics, rail and manufacturing sectors for some of the markets leading organisations.