SUMMARY:
Manufacturer of Electric Motorcycles and lithium Batteries.
POSITION INFO:
Headquartered in Kigali in Rwanda, Our client is the world''s first true mass-market shift to electric vehicles, a vital tipping point in the fight against climate change, through providing electric motorcycles to moto taxi drivers in East Africa. Our electric motorcycles offer savings that double a driver''s income, reduce carbon emissions by more than 75%. Converting just 1 petrol motorbike to electric is the equivalent of the C02 captured by 128 trees.
Client Details
Africa''s first and leading integrated electric motorcycle and transport energy solution. Offering East Africa''s five million taxi motorcyclists a commercial electric motorcycle that is cheaper from day one, provides better overall user experience and requires minimal customer behaviour change.
Using technology adapted for the local market and the right business model to achieve scale, our vehicles deliver superior driving performance, emit 75% less carbon than petrol motorcycles with zero tailpipe emissions and put over $500 a year back into driver''s pockets.
Description
Responsibilities:
Proven experience as a Senior Mechanical Engineer, Ideally with battery or Motorcycle experience.
Product design and engineering analysis:
- Championing customer needs and translating them to technical requirements
- Optimising designs and processes for low-cost and durability
- Applying the product design process of rapid prototyping, testing, and refining
- Applying a solid understanding of mechanical systems, preferably experience with vehicles and/or
Batteries and Power Systems
- Testing and analysis with tools such as MATLAB and Excel
- Building CAD models and technical drawings, and applying FEA
Product Development:
- DfM with a strong understanding of capacities and constraints in varied environments
- Optimising local and overseas supply chains, managing suppliers with regular visits locally and in Asia.
- Designing and building in-house production processes and tools.
- Performing engineering and production validation tests.
- Ongoing follow-up of product performance after launch Project leadership.
- Collaborate with CTO and other senior engineers.
- Train and develop junior engineers in project teams.
- Own project outcomes with regular design reviews.
Profile
Candidate Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years of prior industry experience in a relevant role
- Degree in mechanical engineering, systems engineering, or equivalent
- Experience with design for manufacturing seeing products through to production
- Strong CAD/CAM/FEA skills, and analysis using MATLAB/Excel
- Experience with vehicles, batteries, BMS''s, controllers, or BLDC motors preferred
- Experience effectively leading technical teams
- Fantastic communication
Job Offer
- A competitive compensation package commensurate with international market rates and experience including health insurance, an annual flight allowance and relocation support.
- This role will be based either in Kigali, Rwanda; or in Amsterdam or Berlin (together with our new Europe R&D team) with regular travel to Kigali.
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