Test & Validation Design Leader

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leaders in our businesses and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Valeo Group is one of the world's largest Automotive suppliers, focused on innovative products, development, and customer satisfaction. Working with us means managing the most advanced and sophisticated technologies.

Our Martos plant is one of the biggest sites within our Visibility Systems Business Group, developing and manufacturing Lighting Products and Electronics, with around 3,000 employees. From the latest adaptive lighting technologies to intuitive interior lighting solutions, Valeo constantly innovates to improve comfort and safety for drivers and passengers alike.

As a Test & Validation Design Leader in Valeo Martos, you will have the opportunity to work with the most powerful carmaker companies in electronics development, in an international and multicultural environment.

Mission:

The Test & Validation Leader is responsible for building the Design Validation & Review (DV&R), conducting overall product test and validation activities (including electronic contents) within the R&D team, all along the project, from RFQ phase to last validation phases, and ensuring product conformity and robustness.

Your responsibilities:

• Define the product test strategy based on Customer and Valeo standards specifications and risk analysis (PCA, PHA, DFMEA, R&D Metiers Fix-Variable-Specific analysis).
• Support the project team for compatibility matrix & risk analysis, with contribution from the product family validation standard owner from the project acquisition phase.
• Document Design Validation plan including environmental validation test plan and functional validation test plan with the product architect, based on defined test strategy.
• Plan & quote at CAA (Contract Application Approval) with the R&D Project Team Member all necessary actions to run the Design Validation including number of parts, jigs, subcomponents, headcount, test bench costs (characterization, reliability), and potential external test costs.
• Ensure that validation conditions & planning feasibility are within project commitments.
• Coordinate all product integrations and validation activities (regulations, functional, system, optics, mechanics, EE tests including EMC, craftsmanship, vehicle tests), regardless of the laboratory involved.
• Secure reports archiving in TMT.
• Report issues at the first level of analysis and progress through Design Validation & Review dashboard (KPIs).
• Report project validation risks assessment to the R&D PTM in Design Validation phase.
• Manage RAISE Validation metier review.
• Capitalize on product risks and report all capitalization data to the product family Test & Validation standard owner.
• Release the DV&R with validation status to be approved by the Test & Validation Manager and provide the design validation & review report to the R&D PTM.

Desired skills and experience:

• Master in engineering (general technical engineering knowledge: embedded electronics, mechanics, software, optical systems).
• Experience: 3 to 7 years in testing of embedded products (functional and/or environmental) and experience in project development/validation management required.
• Advanced level of English.
• Passion for the automotive industry.

If you DO NOT meet all the requirements, don't worry, we want to meet you too!

Come to Valeo and discover our benefits! We offer our employees:

• The chance to profit from a customized career plan in one of the most important tech companies worldwide!
• The possibility of knowing everything you need about Valeo and your new challenging position with a comprehensive integration plan and a customized buddy program.
• A flexible compensation plan including the possibility of taking out health insurance and kindergarten cheekbooks.
• Continuous training and language courses at work.
• Outdoor activities, regular sport activities, and access to our sponsored sports hall with a fantastic paddle tennis court.
• Corporate bus in Martos.
• Canteen.
• Opportunity to live in a great place with special surroundings close to Córdoba, Granada, Malaga, Seville.

Don’t miss the opportunity of joining us and take advantage of being part of an international company that commits to ethics, transparency, empowerment, professionalism, and teamwork. Is that you? We want to know you!

Job: R&D Design Leader

Organization: Engineering Discipline

Schedule: Full time

Employee Status: Regular

Job Type: Permanent contract

Job Posting Date: 2024-02-19

Join Us! Being part of our team, you will join one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development, a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration, and more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries, providing numerous opportunities for career growth.

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com