Zonal Integration Lead

Overview

In this contract role, you will steer zonal integration within the automotive engineering delivery process, coordinating cross-functional workstreams and maintaining clear delivery plans. You’ll foster transparent stakeholder communication, identify and escalate integration risks, and ensure outputs meet project expectations. You will contribute to continuous improvement of integration methods and strengthen governance around status reporting and next steps. This position offers hands-on impact in shaping reliable, high-quality engineering delivery within a specialist automotive technical centre.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate zonal integration activities and maintain delivery plans across relevant workstreams
• Drive effective communication between stakeholders to resolve issues and keep progress transparent
• Identify, track, and escalate integration risks and dependencies
• Ensure technical outputs are reviewed, documented, and aligned with project expectations
• Contribute to continuous improvement by refining integration ways of working
• Maintain governance around status reporting, actions, and next steps

Key requirements

• Experience in automotive or engineering industry in integration, coordination, or cross-team delivery
• Strong Catia skills to create and communicate geometry and concepts
• Strong planning and organisation skills with the ability to keep multiple tasks moving at pace
• Clear communication ensuring alignment across teams and timely resolution of blockers
• Collaborative mindset and the confidence to challenge, influence, and drive outcomes
• Proactive approach to problem-solving and process improvement

• collaborative mindset
• clear communication
• stakeholder management
• Catia
• project coordination
• risk management

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