We offer a competitive employment package at Diagnostic Associates which shows a commitment to our employees that they are the most important asset to the Company, and that we will endeavour to ensure that their working life at Diagnostic Associates is as rewarding and enjoyable as possible.
The salient points of this package are as follows, and vary dependent upon the positions held:
- Typically 20 to 25 days paid leave per year
- Company stakeholder pension (contributions made up from the Company and the Employee)
- Death in-service insurance (4 times salary)
- Personal annual training allowance
- Annual salary performance review
- Involvement in the Company performance related bonus scheme.
Due to continued expansion and to provide improved levels of support to our clients, Diagnostic Associates are looking for talented, dedicated, enthusiastic and motivated engineers to work at client sites mainly in the West Midlands area.
We will consider both graduate engineers and experienced time-served engineers/technicians in the fields defined.
Experience in the automotive industry would be very welcomed, especially if current.
If you think that you have the relevant experience and/or qualifications and would like to work for a dynamic, flexible company please forward your CV with a covering letter stating current position and salary.
You can do this via post or by email.
Title: Ford Diagnostics Engineer
Reports to: Global Diagnostics Feature Team Leader – Ford Customer Service Division, team based out of Dunton (near Basildon, Essex) but office attendance requirement flexible and can be agreed.
Description of business: Delivery of dealer diagnostic content for Ford and joint ventures vehicle programs globally.
Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate is one which has a vehicle repair background on both mechanical and electronic vehicle systems plus is proficient with using a computer and has experience with software basic languages. Candidate will create logical steps to lead technicians to identify reasons for failure.
Diagnostic Authoring R&R
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Work with Design engineers to understand vehicle electrical architecture, how it can fail and how it can be diagnosed
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Work with core team to determine if previously authored diagnostics can be leveraged or if new diagnostic pinpoint needs to be developed
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Utilises computer application software to design, develop, create and test the diagnostic routines for implementation.
Validates and signs-off diagnostics routines using simulation, rigs and vehicles as necessary
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Work with Technical Assistance Center to help resolve diagnostic issues in the field, learn from this and update any diagnostic information where applicable
Skills
- Familiar with vehicle electronics architectures
- Familiar with vehicle mechanical architectures
- Familiar with software editors
- Strong problem solving skills
- Clear written/verbal communication skills
- Experience with Microsoft Office (Powerpoint, Excel, Word)
- Ideally hands on experience servicing or repairing vehicles or similar products
- Able to read, write and speak English as a minimum
- Good team player but also ability to focus and work alone to meet deadlines
