Key teams
Engineering and Technology
The freedom to explore and innovate. Respect and recognition for your individual approach and deep expertise. And support for continuous learning that enables you to focus on what you do best. That’s what you’ll find here.
Engineering and Technical Consultancy
Join one of our teams and you’ll enjoy the scope to deepen your knowledge and build your reputation as a thought leader. You’ll be working with customers around the world, gaining exposure to a huge variety of vehicles, approaches and roles. You might be contributing to a standards working group, influencing our technical direction, delivering training, or engineering innovative customer solutions. And, with such a variety of opportunities, you’ll always be learning, developing and growing to create safer, cleaner, smarter journeys.
Your potential career path
Engineering
At every stage of your career, we’ll give you further opportunities to build your skills and continually develop your technical and commercial knowledge. You’ll be exposed to different client projects. You’ll work with experts from across the HORIBA MIRA business. And you’ll have the chance to sit on industry work groups and attend industry seminars. And if you want to move into people management at Principal Engineer level, you’ll have access to a full suite of leadership training courses.
Principal Engineer
As a principal engineer, you’ll have similar technical expertise and knowledge to a consultant. But with a focus on leadership and operational performance. So, you’ll lead local delivery teams. Manage facility operations. And oversee the technical aspects of engineering delivery. All for a range of customers, working in the UK and overseas.
Senior Engineer
Our senior engineers have extensive engineering expertise in a specific technical area. You’ll be working closely with customers on a range of complex projects. So, you’ll be involved from the first enquiry, through setting out project specifications and scope, to successful delivery. The scale and scope of these projects means you may sometimes need to work overseas.
Project Engineer
As an experienced engineer in a particular technical field, you’ll lead a variety of small customer projects. That means leading and motivating project teams. Following established processes. Managing budgets. And working closely with customers to ensure successful delivery – sometimes at overseas sites.
Graduate Engineer
As a graduate engineer, you might take a specific role in one of our teams. You may join a capability group, such as functional safety or cyber security, and work in different teams to expand your knowledge and skills. Or you could rotate through a variety of teams, developing your broad engineering skills before joining a specific team.
Senior/Engineering Technician
As a senior or Engineering technician you would be involved in a variety of exciting projects, whether supporting engineering development or working within one of our test facilities. In these roles you will often also have responsibility for a work area, technical application or have specific deep technical knowledge in a particular field. Engineering Technicians may also lead technical projects. You will be working closely with colleagues and customers alike and this may involve some UK or Global travel.
Technician
Whether you’re a test or development technician, you’ll contribute to a variety of customer projects. That means you’ll need to combine technical skills and expertise with the ability to work in a team, sometimes alongside customer engineers.
Chief Engineer
You’ll be a recognised technical expert, with a wide-ranging engineering background in civilian or defence vehicles, or both. Including deep technical knowledge in a particular field, or experience of delivering multiple vehicle capabilities. At the same time, you’ll have the character to work at a senior technical level with customers, government stakeholders and technical bodies, both in the UK and overseas.
Senior Consultant/Consultant
Our consultants are recognised experts in their specific technical fields. Playing a key role in international standards and technical bodies. And presenting papers at technical conferences. So, you’ll use your highly technical expertise to work with customers in the UK and abroad on a variety of projects. That means defining work activity. Overseeing technical governance. And leading technology roadmaps and research activities.
Senior Engineer
Our senior engineers have extensive engineering expertise in a specific technical area. You’ll be working closely with customers on a range of complex projects. So, you’ll be involved from the first enquiry, through setting out project specifications and scope, to successful delivery. The scale and scope of these projects means you may sometimes need to work overseas.
Project Engineer
As an experienced engineer in a particular technical field, you’ll lead a variety of small customer projects. That means leading and motivating project teams. Following established processes. Managing budgets. And working closely with customers to ensure successful delivery – sometimes at overseas sites.
Engineer
As one of our engineers, you’ll either join a team delivering customer projects, or work in our world-class testing facilities. It’s an ideal role for a technician focusing on a specific area such as electromagnetic resilience and looking for the next step up the career ladder. Or if you’re a qualified engineer who wants to work at the forefront of automotive technology.
Graduate Engineer
As a graduate engineer, you might take a specific role in one of our teams. You may join a capability group, such as functional safety or cyber security, and work in different teams to expand your knowledge and skills. Or you could rotate through a variety of teams, developing your broad engineering skills before joining a specific team.
Your potential career path
Technical Consultancy
If you’re looking to develop into a respected thought leader in your specialist area, we’ll give you every opportunity to hone your engineering and technical expertise and build a fulfilling career. Working with clients around the world. Influencing industry standards. Representing HORIBA MIRA at international forums. We’ll enable you to apply your expertise to different challenges and different vehicles, in different markets. So, at each stage of your career, you’ll gain the broad, varied experience you need to learn, develop and grow.
The types of projects you could be working on
Major auto manufacturer
Some of the world’s biggest names in the automotive sector rely on our deep knowledge, smart insights and innovative thinking. So, at any stage of your career, you could be working on the latest connected or autonomous vehicles, electrification, powertrain or emissions. And developing your client-facing skills for different global markets. It’s about pooling our expertise, working collaboratively and thinking innovatively to solve a range of challenges. And building your knowledge to accelerate your own progress.
New auto start-up
We work with a number of new start-up companies who approach the automotive industry from a completely different perspective, based on the very latest technologies. They respect our deep industry knowledge, but often challenge us to find new, quicker ways of achieving their business goals. So, throughout your career here, you could be working alongside them. Discovering new approaches. Adding to your expertise. And pushing the boundaries of what’s achievable on a whole range of unique challenges.
Industry standards bodies
For 76 years, we’ve enabled the automotive industry to grow and innovate by continually building our knowledge and capabilities. As thought leaders in various aspects of the industry, we’re members of a range of UK, European and global standards committees, setting the standards for all aspects of automotive design and manufacture. As one of our respected technical consultants with a depth of industry knowledge, you may have the opportunity to represent HORIBA MIRA on these committees.
Delivering expert training
We don’t just support our customers in developing their products. As globally recognised thought leaders, we also sell our expertise in the form of high quality training courses to their people. So, we’ll not only help you to develop an unrivalled depth of knowledge in your specialist area to further your career. If you want to explore opportunities as a trainer, we’ll also support you in developing your skills to share your knowledge as one of our respected technical consultants.
Investing in your development
Throughout your career, you can expect a range of opportunities to further your knowledge and skills through formal training, as well as learning on the job alongside experienced colleagues. As a Graduate or Junior Engineer, if you need to gain a Masters degree in order to become certified, we’ll support you all the way. And at each stage, we’ll discuss your personal and professional development with you, and ensure you have exposure to the widest range of the right opportunities, so you can learn, develop and grow.
Meet some
of the team
Muhammed Jeeva
Graduate Cybersecurity Engineer
I joined HORIBA MIRA because of my love for cars and computers, but I’ve been able to bring more of my hobbies outside of work into my job, such as using drones, coding, CAD and 3D printing. Also, the cyber security area of the industry is very new, and it's really exciting to be involved in its development – there’s never a dull moment.
Meet some
of the team
Guy Foulger
Engineering & Technology Director
I’ve been with the company almost three decades, and I’ve had the chance to switch roles every few years, even travelling the world to experience different cultures. The variety of projects and challenges I’ve been a part of has been amazing. You spend so much of your life at work, you should be somewhere you can make a difference.
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of the team
Stanley Chell
Electro-Mechanical Engineering Apprentice
I am proud to wear my HORIBA MIRA uniform. After only being here a few months, it felt like I’d already been part of the team for years. There are loads of clubs to get involved with. And the team culture and training opportunities encourage you to always learn, so you’ll come across something new and interesting every day.
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of the team
David Wood
Operations Manager - ASSURED CAV
The variety of experience I’ve gained at HORIBA MIRA would have taken me many more years anywhere else. The team is supportive, there are countless fantastic opportunities and exciting projects to work on, and the company invests in you by allowing you to develop more skills and qualifications alongside your work.
Meet some
of the team
James Halstead
Senior Technical Manager – Vehicle Engineering
I work with some of the most professional, yet down to earth people in the world, who share a genuine passion for engineering. The wide diversity of work means there are always new and interesting projects to challenge and push us further. With the constant support of HORIBA MIRA, I’ve been able to do things I never would have thought possible.
Ready to apply?
Feeling inspired to apply for a role at HORIBA MIRA? Why not take a look at the wide range of Engineering, Testing, Technology and Commercial vacancies that we currently have available at our Nuneaton and Basildon sites.
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