Thermal & Climate System Engineer
Location
Coventry | United Kingdom
Job description
REE is disrupting and revolutionizing the electric mobility industry and aims at becoming the standard for the future electric vehicle architecture. There has never been a more exciting time to be part of a technology company such as REE and no industry offers more fast-paced change and opportunity than today’s automotive industry. REE is at the epicentre of the electric mobility revolution that will completely change the world to a cleaner place. We collaborate with worldwide, leading automotive players and technology companies to facilitate the development, engineering and assembly of our technology and bring it to automotive-grade, mass-production worthy products. We are looking for a Thermal & Climate System Engineer based at our engineering centre in Coventry.
Responsibilities:
- Create system and component requirements and technical specifications for HVAC units including blowers, heater cores, cooler cores/evaporators, intake/distribution, filters, actuators, ducting.
- Size components such as heat exchangers and blowers as required to deliver cabin comfort.
- Support development of 1D Cabin and Thermal System model.
- Develop comfort model and set comfort targets for different markets with comfort attribute owner.
- Support Calibration of the Thermal System Control Model by supporting Hardware in Loop and Vehicle Testing.
- Collaborate with control and software engineers to develop and calibrate manual and automatic climate control algorithms.
- Collaborate with the design team to develop concepts.
- Lead vehicle & chamber validation tests both in the U.K. and abroad to ensure the climate control systems meet quality, safety, and performance standards.
- Create and maintain validation plan for the climate system.
- Collaborate with external test labs, suppliers, and manufacturers to ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards.
- Liaise with suppliers for climate control system components, ensuring timely delivery, quality, and cost-effectiveness.
- Stay updated on industry regulations, standards, and protocols related to automotive climate control systems to ensure REE remains compliant.
- Support verification of Thermal Systems & components to ensure attribute, system and component level requirements are delivered as part of the Thermal System DFMEA Validation Plan.
- Collaborate with Aerodynamics/CFD Engineers (internal & external) to ensure robust 1D model inputs and delivery of Comfort and Demist/Defrost targets.
- Support Thermal and Climate System Commissioning on Prototype Vehicle builds.
- Collaborate with Thermal System Principal Engineer, Design Engineer(s), Integration Engineer(s) & Suppliers to optimise the Thermal System based on test data and resolve issues.
- Support Quality History Reviews and Design Failure Mode & Effects Analyses for Design Verification Plan generation, and REE Engineering Design Standards
- Collaborate and support the Vehicle Test team through creation of instrumentation requests and test procedures.
- Collaborate with Thermal System Principal Engineer to ensure that Thermal System components are suitable/sized correctly to meet system performance targets.
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