Vehicle Efficiency Attribute Lead Engineer

Expleo is seeking a highly skilled Vehicle Efficiency Attribute Lead Engineer to support a major automotive OEM on a contract basis. This role plays a pivotal part in shaping vehicle efficiency performance across future product lines, ensuring attributes such as real‑world range, energy consumption and fuel economy meet customer, legislative and business expectations.

About the Role

Working within the Vehicle Architecture function and supporting the Efficiency Product Owner, you will take a leading role in defining, analysing and delivering key Vehicle Efficiency attributes. You will ensure that attribute targets are compatible with system‑level and sub‑system requirements, influencing multiple energy‑consuming domains to deliver optimised vehicle performance.

This position requires a strong analytical mindset, excellent cross‑functional collaboration skills, and a deep understanding of whole‑vehicle efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

Support the Efficiency Product Owner in delivering critical Vehicle Efficiency attributes such as real‑world and homologated range, energy consumption, fuel economy and CO₂ emissions.

Ensure attribute requirements are compatible with system and subsystem owners across the vehicle.

Cascade, negotiate and arbitrate data‑driven targets with energy node owners (aerodynamics, weight, powertrain efficiency, climate system, HV battery energy, etc).

Collaborate with cross‑functional engineering teams to deliver against the Vehicle Efficiency Quality Operating Schedule (QOS).

Identify efficiency risks and opportunities using robust data‑driven analysis to influence engineering direction and business decisions.

Key Accountabilities

Reporting to the Efficiency Product Owner, responsibilities include:

Conducting strategic target setting for Vehicle Efficiency, including competitive benchmarking, legislative analysis, customer feedback reviews and real‑world data interpretation.

Coordinating and contributing to virtual verification activities, simulations and associated data analysis.

Managing target compatibility assessments and negotiations with energy node owners.

Contributing to strategic technology roadmaps aligned to efficiency attribute needs and customer trends.

Supporting governance for Vehicle Efficiency throughout programme lifecycles and recommending actions for identified risks or opportunities.

Ensuring efficiency attribute assumptions and energy node data are accurately maintained and available to stakeholders.

Working with tools and methods teams to define development needs that support Vehicle Efficiency objectives.

Contributing to tools and methods projects where programme priorities allow.

Undertaking additional responsibilities as required by the line manager.

Skills Required:-

Essential:

Strong technical engineering background with evidence of a methodical, structured approach to problem solving

Significant previous experience of Vehicle attribute and/or vehicle system delivery

Detailed knowledge of vehicle efficiency legislative homologation/certification methods, processes and implementation

Technical understanding of how vehicle energy nodes (road load, propulsion efficiency, electrical loads etc) affect vehicle-level emissions, consumption and range for both fuel-consuming vehicles, EVs and hybrids

Strong presentation skills with the ability to use data and visualisations to articulate complex risks, opportunities and recommendations in an easily digestible way

Education:

Applicants should be educated to Degree level (ideally with a focus on Mechanical or System Engineering) with significant relevant industrial experience