Homologation Engineer Job in Nairobi Kenya

Vacancy: Homologation Engineer 
 

Industry: Automobile
 

Location: Nairobi
 

Salary: Based on experience
 

Our client is an automobile company that designs, manufactures and sells highly durable, highly affordable vehicles for Africa’s mass market. 

They seek a long term commitment from an experienced regulatory professional to support the engineering development team as Homologation Engineer.

Purpose of the Job: The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying and ensuring adherence to required automotive regulatory standards covering all aspects of the vehicle. 

The role will require a close working relationship with the Senior Integration Manager, Product Development Quality Engineer, Supply Chain team, manufacturing as well as various vendors. Specific duties include 

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the homologation of all applicable policies, standards, and regulations related to company vehicle models.
• Support the development and maintenance of the internal policies related to the application, implementation, enforcement and audit of all policies, standards and regulations.
• Work with external agencies and government regulatory authorities to ensure compliance of company products in the respective markets where the products will be sold.
• Plan and ensure the execution of homologation test and approval projects for the complete company models.
• Prepare, review and submit type regulatory approval documents and drawings to applicable regulatory bodies.
• Advise the Product Development teams on current and future legislative matters relating to automotive design, manufacture and functionality for respective target markets.
• Agree on vehicle certification requirements with government regulatory bodies.
• Monitor and report on all applicable legislation changes in target operating markets for the vehicle.
• Support the Product Development Teams to ensure robust and consistent application of regulatory guidelines into new designs.
• Lead the Product Development teams to resolve regulatory design issues.
• Support the development with the test engineers, the appropriate verification and validation.
• Monitor ongoing adherence of overall vehicle functionality to required regulatory requirements through the design process.
• Regularly report to stakeholder’s non-conforming regulatory issues, corrective action plans and timeframe for closure.
• Work flexibly in a highly cross-functional team environment involving designers, engineers as well as future manufacturing and product development teams.

Requirements Planning (MRP) Results

• Develop strategy and action plan for transitioning future contract manufacturers to be fully self-sufficient and capable of sourcing, purchasing, and managing sub-tier suppliers.
• Manage key supplier relationships and activities, both strategic and tactical, for components and subsystems.
• Constantly work to improve the efficiency of the supply chain, reducing costs and increasing responsiveness to customers.
• Work with all involved parties to ensure continuous operation of the production line, by managing material procurement and delivery to achieve maximum inventory turns.
• Work with future engineering team to process Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), and manage its impact on production materials availability and resulting obsolescence.
• Work flexibly in a highly cross-functional team environment involving Automotive Designer, Automotive Engineer, Cost Engineer as well as future manufacturing and product development teams, Buyers, Manufacturing Engineers, Quality Engineers and Logistics Coordinators and Finance personnel.
• Assist suppliers in quality assurance processes and procedures to facilitate continuous improvement of supplier and product performance.
• Track performance of suppliers; monitor supplier performance on delivery, quality and cost.
• Manage and reduce Bill of Materials (BOM) cost by establishing alternative vendors, and negotiating price and delivery schedules.
• Identify logistics requirements and other operational needs that may significantly impact both the successful delivery of production and total cost of the product.
• Perform network location analysis to determine optimal logistics footprint based on transportation cost, warehousing cost, business characteristics, service requirements, and other inputs/constraints specific to the project.
• Assess delivery transportation modes, routing, consolidation opportunities, and other methodologies to create an optimal transportation solution within an integrated logistics network.
• Develop supply chain administration tools, process and documentation.
• Provide support as needed with critical supply chain issues, on-site implementations, and cross-functional process improvements.
• Take ownership of regulatory projects and issues; plan milestones, timelines, budgets, resources and identify potential risks to deliver resolution within agreed completion dates.
• Be proactive regarding regulatory issue identification and periodically advise wider team on status, risks and required activities to progress forward.
• Work as an active member of the team, ensure effective communication between colleagues and positively contribute regularly to meetings and briefings.

Qualifications 

An ideal candidate should combine excellent regulatory management and awareness skills with appropriate technical skills with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with a multidisciplinary team and external agencies and regulatory bodies. 

They should possess a strong skill set in working with multi-function teams, defining certification strategy and identifying critical issues and risks to meeting required compliance.

Required

• Bachelor degree  in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering,
• 3+ years related experience in quality engineering, mechanical engineering, regulatory. compliance engineering or closely related fields.
• An ability to work to a very high level of accuracy and detail.
• Exceptional leadership and clear sense of direction.
• Excellent negotiation skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to build strong rapport with design and test engineers, external agencies and government authority boards.
• Exceptional integrity and a strong sense of ethics.
• Exceptional persistence and endurance to overcome significant challenges
• Excellent problem solving ability in cross-functional and multi-cultural environment; able to define problems, collect relevant data, extract meaning from data, and draw valid Conclusions.
• Exceptional analytical skills with regards to logistics analysis, data manipulation, and the ability to create information from data
• Ability to effectively communicate timelines and project progress with both internal and external management teams
• Experience in developing certification processes and quality measures
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• High sense of drive and urgency in achieving our vision
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic working environment and work within a diverse team

If you are up to the challenge, posses the necessary qualification and experience, please send your CV only quoting the job title on the email subject (Homologation Engineer) to jobs@corporatestaffing.co.ke before 22nd December, 2014.

Kindly indicate current/last salary on your CV

N.B: We do not charge any fee for receiving your CV or for interviewing

Only candidates short-listed for interview will be contacted.