As Principle Engineer, your responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:  

• Identifying needs, gathering requirements, defining problems, completing complex analyses, and resolving complex technical issues in line with requirements and customer expectations.

• Playing a key role in ensuring the quality, reliability, performance, and durability expected of our superior products by our customers

• Making a leading contribution to concept designs, design realisation, verification, test and validation planning for complex components, subsystems, or processes.

• Deploying your significant technical expertise to lead or support new product concepts, product improvements and complex engineering projects.

• Identifying design risks, evaluating alternate solutions, and proactively resolving challenges to balance all stakeholder, business, and customer expectations along the way

• Work directly with different units, suppliers, customers and/or other teams to define problems and collaborate to reach solutions.

• Anticipating and proactively engaging with challenges, helping reinforce the culture of acting with a sense of urgency, to serve our customers.

• Effectively communicating technical information, project updates, and challenges in a succinct and accurate manner to diverse audiences.

• Making decisions that may affect the whole team, the associated timebound deliverables, and may also impact customers, dealers, suppliers, costs, quality, and customer perception.

• Establishing and maintaining direct contacts to “touch” machines, components, supplier processes, and customers to develop or resolve predominantly technical challenges.

NB. The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.  

Candidates will have gained the following skills and experience through previous roles:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering or at least 8 - 12 years equivalent relevant experience such as working as a senior design engineer or leading technical design activities.

• Ability to self-start, effectively manage time, manage multiple objectives in parallel and be highly effective with minimal oversight.

• Significant experience in detailed design and development, and production launch, of drivetrain, transmissions, transmission sub-systems and transmission components.

• Demonstrable design and development experience with countershaft, hystat, planetary transmissions. Hydraulic systems, hydraulic component integration (valves / pumps / motors), wet clutches. Gears (planetary, helical, bevel, spur), shafts, bearings, and housings.

Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting.