Lead Vehicle Engineer (LVE)

Job Description

Job Description

We work alongside the best and brightest to do incredibly cool things you wouldn’t believe.  At Roush, you’re part of building the future.  Are you someone that has a passion for providing innovative solutions to complex challenges?  Do you want to work someplace where creativity and new ideas are encouraged?  If so, then keep reading.

We fuse technology and engineering to provide product development solutions to customers in a diverse range of industries. Widely recognized for providing engineering, testing, prototype, and manufacturing services to the transportation industry, Roush also provides significant support to the aerospace, defense and theme park industries.  With over 2,400 employees in facilities throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America, our unique combination of creativity and tenacity activates big ideas on a global stage.

We offer a full array of benefits to our full-time employees, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, earned sick time, STD, LTD, 401K, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, and paid holidays.

The Lead Vehicle Engineer (LVE) acts as the program-level Principal Vehicle Engineer (PVE) for an assigned vehicle program, owning vehicle-level performance, integration, and validation while ensuring alignment with established PVE standards and governance. The LVE is responsible for translating high-level vehicle strategies into program-specific technical targets, leading system integration activities, and coordinating cross-functional engineering execution. This role serves as the primary technical point of contact for the program, driving day-to-day engineering decisions, managing technical risks, and ensuring that all program deliverables meet quality, timing, and cost objectives.

As a Lead Vehicle Engineer (LVE), you will :

• Define and manage program-specific vehicle attribute targets; oversee requirement flow-down and maintain interface control documents (ICDs) across all affected systems
• Lead program-level integration planning, including design validation and design verification schedules, coordinating closely with the Vehicle Systems Supervisor for execution
• Make daily technical decisions within program scope and escalate high-impact trade-offs to the PVE for resolution; it is expected that the LVE is both willing and capable of escalating to clients as well pending reviews with the PVE
• Conduct and lead technical reviews with Mechanical, Electrical, CAE, Manufacturing / Prototype, Quality, and supplier teams, ensuring issues are identified and resolved promptly
• Develop and maintain technical risk registers, mitigation plans, and status reports for communication to customers, Program Management, and leadership
• Ensure engineering deliverables are completed in alignment with program gateways, customer milestones, and internal process requirements
• Represent the program’s technical position in customer and executive reviews, ensuring technical accuracy and alignment with business objectives

To be considered as a Lead Vehicle Engineer (LVE), you will need :

A successful candidate may also have :

If you share our passion for providing innovative solutions to complex challenges, we want you on our team. Please visit our careers page and apply by clicking on this link :   https : / / jobs.roush.com / us / en /

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