ENGINE CALIBRATION ENGINEER HF

Job description

ALTEN was set up in 1988 by three French engineering graduates. Today, the company supports some of the world's biggest companies with their R&D and information systems projects.
As a European leader in technology consulting and engineering with around 20.400 employees in 20 countries, ALTEN has stayed true to its origins in engineering, which now more than ever before holds the key to the major challenges of the future.
ALTEN Ltd is currently involved in innovation development for the automotive, aerospace, railway and energy industries with premium customers in the UK. ALTEN currently offers opportunities to high potential engineers to join their teams in order to answer the continuous demand of customers and tackle exciting challenges.
As part of our development in the automotive sector, we are currently looking for a calibration engineer with a significant experience in powertrain.
Position
Are you an engine calibration engineer looking for a dynamic company to join? Due to our steady growth, we have openings for Engine Calibration Engineers who will be responsible for delivering complete powertrain calibrations to support new and current products within diesel and gasoline engines, developing the calibration strategy for automotive companies and managing projects for luxury car industry from the beginning to the delivery.
The role of the calibration engineer is to develop calibration for various powertrain control features and perform fuel economy, emissions, drivability, performance and robustness assessments for future powertrain technologies.
The ideal candidate must show a capacity to assimilate and understand the implications of new developments, quickly responding appropriately to situations as they evolve.
The engineer selected will work on the customer site and will be focal point for the relations between Alten and the Customer. As part of career development, the engineer will become a team referent and future Technical Team Leader for the Alten Team. The responsibility will be increased technically and in terms of Management, receiving training to upgrade the skills.
Skills
- Gasoline/Diesel Engine Calibration / Flex fuel
- Internal combustion engines calibration in several features
- Project management
- Verification and Validation testing
- Quality and Voice of Customer Technical support and management
- Supplier / Customer requirements and complaints management
- Engine calibration skills: air charge, spark hooks, knock control, thermal catalyst modelling, drivability, idle control, cold starts, transient fuel compensation, OBDBr2 and E-OBD, emissions, homologation and certification
- Ongoing releases (quality, cost reduction projects)
- Prototype testing and building support
- Supporting engine bench testing and base calibration
- Supporting fleet vehicles for powertrain trouble shooting
- Supporting development and testing sessions for EMS calibration
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Detailed Skills
- Engine project management: testing, calibration, validation and homologation
activities
- Focus on frontline activities such as local market requirements
Certification and Homologation, fuel economy and new applied technologies.
- Key roles and responsibilities to consolidate new established team skills and
capability
Tools :
- INCA
- Concerto
- Creta
- AVL Tools
- ATI Vision
- ETAS Inca and MDA
- Vector CANalyzer
- EMS (Is a plus)
- ECU (is a plus)
Qualifications required
You are qualified to M.Sc. or MEng with mechanical or electrical engineering background. During your studies and/or your previous experience you have gained knowledge of a Minimum of 1 year of practical experience in an automotive/powertrain environment.
At ALTEN Ltd you will get a motivating environment, autonomy in your work situation and career together with co-workers in the same field. Personal qualities that we value are the ability to act professionally as a consultant and to understand the client's goals and values. These include; someone who has a positive mind-set, able to create and maintain long lasting relationships with our customers, thrilled by problem solving capacity and able to use creativity and hard work to find new solutions.