Chris Bingham-Powell

Experience

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  AVL

  Jul 2014 - Nov 2014

  Driveability Engineer (Intern)

  Working alongside Ford UK using the AVL-DRIVE hardware and software to asses the driveability of a range of vehicles. This requires instrumenting the vehicle with various accelerometers, sensors and microphones to not only asses the physical driveability of the car but also NVH.Once the car is fully instrumented and configured correctly various drive cycles would be undertaken which cover drive away at part and full load, acceleration at part and full load, tip-in/out, gear shifts and constant speed to cover all areas that the car would be driven in the real world.Finally a report presentation was created to present to the team responsible for calibrating the specific vehicle, outlining the good points and areas for improvement and under what driving condition the issues where seen so they can be resolved quickly and easily. Show less

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  JLR

  Dec 2014 - Nov 2015

  Component Engineer

  Working in the suspension system tuning department taking full responsibility of Suspension Top Mounts and Spring Aids on the D7a platform. Releasing components using WERS, arranging tooling and D&D costs for the production of parts and undertaking problem solving tasks when issues arise using the 8D process.

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  Ford Motor Company

  Nov 2015 - Aug 2021

  Working as Component Engineer within Chassis on the Transit platform with ownership of Struts, Dampers, Coil Springs and Spring Pads.Controlling all aspects of the component delivery onto the vehicle. Including sourcing suppliers, and working with them throughout development ensuring all parts are fit for production having fully completed all sign off testing. Releasing the correct parts onto the correct vehicle variants on the BOM for each prototype build cycle and into production using WERS.Updating and releasing the Ride Height Calculator, an excel based tool calculating the ride heights of each of the 2,500+ variants of Transit globally at different loading conditions with the use of VBA. Show less

  • Chassis System Engineer

    Jan 2019 - Aug 2021

  • Suspension Engineer

    Nov 2015 - Jul 2019
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  Arrival

  Sept 2021 - Oct 2022

  Senior Design Engineer

  Working in the Platform Systems Team as Senior Design Engineer, owning the design of Suspension components on the front Axle of Van program.

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  NIO UK

  Nov 2022 - now

  Staff Engineer - Advanced Chassis Concepts