Zonal Integration Lead

Ready to make a real impact in automotive engineering and integration? The Zonal Integration Lead role is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership, coordinate cross-functional activity, and help deliver world-class design and development outcomes. If you enjoy bringing structure to complex work, driving alignment between stakeholders, and moving projects forward with confidence, this Zonal Integration Lead position is built for you. This is a contract role that sits inside IR35

What You Will Do as Zonal Integration Lead;

As Zonal Integration Lead, you'll play a pivotal part in ensuring the smooth integration of functions and systems within the engineering delivery process:

• Coordinate zonal integration activities and maintain clear delivery plans across relevant workstreams.
• Drive effective communication between stakeholders to resolve issues quickly and keep progress transparent.
• Support the identification, tracking, and escalation of 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.
• Help maintain strong governance around status reporting, actions, and next steps.

 What You Will Bring as Zonal Integration Lead;

To thrive as Zonal Integration Lead, you'll bring practical experience of structured coordination and confident stakeholder management:

• Experience working within the automotive or engineering industry, ideally 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 ability, ensuring alignment across teams and timely resolution of blockers.
• A collaborative mindset and the confidence to challenge, influence, and drive outcomes.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving and process improvement.

The Zonal Integration Lead role sits within the wider automotive design and engineering environment, supporting R&D activity delivered by this company, a specialist automotive technical centre based in Coventry. This role helps the company's goals by strengthening delivery clarity, improving integration readiness, and enabling high-quality outcomes for both internal development and selected partner activity.

Interested?

If the Zonal Integration Lead position sounds like the next step for your career, apply now and take the opportunity to contribute to impactful engineering delivery.