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Test engineer Emissions & Fuel Economy
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Test engineer in the Emissions & Fuel Economy team of the Powertrain Department, responsible for vehicle instrumentation, testing, data analysis, and reporting for ICE, PHEV, HEV, and EV technologies.
About this role
Test engineer Emissions & Fuel Economy
Shaping the Future of Automotive Engineering
Applus+ IDIADA is a global leader in automotive engineering, offering a dynamic and rewarding career opportunity for professionals passionate about shaping the future of mobility. As a TOP Employer certified company with over 3400 professionals in 24 countries, we provide a diverse and inclusive work environment that fosters innovation and growth with colleagues from over 57 nationalities contributing to a safer, more efficient, and sustainable vehicles.
Why join us?
Enjoy a highly flexible hybrid work model in a company that takes care of the employees’ wellbeing, offering work-life balance benefits such as subsidized canteen, free language courses, transport and coaching services.
Join a company that has a deep commitment to sustainability and push yourself to reach your full potential in a dynamic and challenging setting that values innovation and expertise.
Come & join us on the road to success.
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Reporting to the Product Engineer, you will be involved in Emissions & Fuel Economy team of Powertrain Department for all kind of vehicle tecnologies: ICE, PHEV, HEV and EV. The activities to be carried out will consist in:
- Test vehicles instrumentation
- Complete vehicle testing and analysis
- Managing and reporting the related activities of those projects
- Test equipment control and managerial
Responsibilities:
- Involved in projects related to emission measurements, fuel consumption and energy management
- Specially involved in European Projects, related with particle emissions from Brakes, particle emissions from tyres, life cycle assestment, Real driving emissions and energy consumption
- Test and data logging equipment configuration, test supervision, test validation, data analysis and reporting.
- Test protocol definitions and detection of potential improvements.
- Master plan project definition and exploding to sub-tasks and milestones.
- Test equipment control and checking according to quality standards, internal and external
- Test equipment requirements definition ensuring suitability for tests
- Daily communications with involved technicians in the team to plan and monitor daily tasks
- Quality improvements and automation of data post-processing
- Project Management.
- Preparation of the quotation for the customers.
- Preparation of European projects proposals
- Presentations (commercials and projects) to the customers
Qualifications
Profile:
- Client orientation.
- Skills on Office pack (Excel etc).
- Willing to travel abroad for testing and commercial visits.
- Self-motivated, proactive and good team player role.
Added value:
- Experience in worldwide powertrain standards (ie. EU - Euro 7-, EPA, CARB, Japan, China) related to Energy & Emissions.
- Experience in automotive mechanics
- Operating measuring instruments and fitting external instrumentation to vehicle/engine
- INCA and Diadem
- Experience in project management as well customer services
Education:
- Degree in Mechanical/Electrical or Chemical engineering . (MSc valued).
Languages:
- Spanish and English fluent.
Additional Information
Benefits:
-Chance to work in a dynamic and challenging environment where you will be able to reach your full potential.
-Constant learning and knowledge sharing with some of the most experienced engineers in the automotive industry.
-Shuttle bus from Barcelona and Tarragona and Internal car sharing app, to promote the sustainable transportation.
-We promote the training and constant learning and we offer paid specialized training and subsidized language courses.
-Subsidized canteen.
Applus IDIADA is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We don’t put limits on you, so don’t put limits on yourself either. There is a place for everyone.
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