Contractor - Senior Vehicle Dynamics Analyst

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Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

As a Senior Vehicle Dynamics Analyst your primary role will be to aid the design of suspension and steering systems and complete vehicle performance by undertaking multi-body kinematic and dynamic analysis using the ADAMS 3D dynamic simulation toolset.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply theoretical knowledge and engineering techniques to the solution of basic analytical engineering problems
• Build high-fidelity kinematic and dynamic multi-body models for suspension, chassis, and full vehicle systems using commercial CAE tools based on CAD and other engineering data
• Conduct kinematic, quasi-static and dynamic simulations of suspension systems and vehicles
• Prepare detailed technical presentations for both internal and client project engineering review
• Interface with internal and external clients to deliver updates, design recommendations and analysis results
• Confer with senior engineers and supervisor to obtain necessary guidance and direction
• Work with proposal leaders to develop scope of work and to estimate resource needs
• Perform technical supervision of junior team members
• Assist with technique and analysis methodology development
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Key Competencies and Experience

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Advanced experience in statics and dynamics
• Advanced experience in numerical methods including finite difference/finite element methods
• A deep understanding of the modelling, simulation and design of suspension and chassis systems
• Understanding of kinematic and compliance (K&C) studies, ride and handling simulations, and durability assessments
• Understand and analyse suspension geometry, load paths, and dynamic behaviour under various operating conditions
• Understand full vehicle dynamic simulations
• Broad vehicle engineering and integration knowledge
• Experience performing dynamic simulations
• Experience with the ADAMS analysis toolset for dynamic simulations
• Experience with at least one commercial CAD package (e.g., Catia, Creo, NX, Solid Works, etc.)
• Experience performing dynamic analyses in the time and frequency domain
• Understanding of tyre models and road load inputs

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can.

As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team  if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.