Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant - Heavy Duty Trucks

Job Title: Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant - Heavy Duty Trucks Location: Greensboro, NC (onsite) Zip Code: 27409 Pay Rate: $45 - $55/hr. (DOE) Job Type: Contract (4-Month Consulting Assignment) Schedule: Monday - Friday Keyword's: #Greensborojobs; #RecruitmentCoordinatorjobs; Start Date: Immediate We provide a competitive pay and benefits package. This position is offering a pay range of $45 - $55/hr. however, Belcan considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to education, experience, geographic location, and discipline. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); education assistance; paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law. Job Summary: A Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant - Heavy Duty Trucks job in Greensboro, NC is currently accepting applications. This is a four-month consulting assignment with a leading commercial vehicle manufacturer. In this role, you will lead an engineering pre-study focused on evaluating how an existing advanced vehicle architecture can be optimized, reused, and expanded across future heavy-duty conventional and cab-over truck platforms. You will provide strategic engineering recommendations that reduce development risk, improve scalability, and accelerate time-to-market for future vehicle programs. To be considered for this opportunity, you should have extensive experience in heavy-duty vehicle architecture, systems engineering, or whole-vehicle integration, along with a strong understanding of truck platform development. Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant Job Responsibilities:

• Lead a strategic engineering assessment of an existing heavy-duty vehicle architecture for future conventional and cab-over truck applications.
• Evaluate opportunities for architecture reuse, carry-over components, delta-part strategies, and system integration improvements.
• Analyze the impact of vehicle configuration changes on packaging, wheelbase, payload, fuel efficiency, maneuverability, and overall vehicle performance.
• Develop and compare future base vehicle configurations while recommending a scalable architecture strategy.
• Assess the feasibility of applying the architecture to cab-over truck platforms, including structural considerations, auxiliary systems, packaging, and feature integration.
• Perform sensor integration studies, including sensor placement concepts and field-of-view analysis.
• Identify technical risks, engineering assumptions, dependencies, and implementation challenges while developing mitigation strategies.
• Prepare comprehensive engineering analyses, strategic recommendations, and executive-level presentations to support leadership decision-making.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Vehicle Engineering, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, Product Development, and Program Management.
• Lead complex engineering initiatives while providing technical guidance and mentoring to team members when appropriate.
• Support long-term product architecture planning, manufacturing strategy, platform strategy, and product roadmap development.
• Drive engineering decisions that balance cost, complexity, performance, quality, and time-to-market objectives.

Senior Vehicle Architecture Consultant Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related engineering discipline. Advanced degree is a plus.
• 8+ years of experience in vehicle architecture, systems engineering, product development, or whole-vehicle integration within the heavy-duty truck industry.
• Strong understanding of conventional and cab-over commercial truck platforms.
• Experience with vehicle architecture development, carry-over planning, component reuse strategies, and delta-part analysis.
• Knowledge of vehicle packaging, structural integration, sensor placement, field-of-view analysis, and systems integration.
• Experience leading complex engineering projects from concept through strategic recommendation.
• Ability to translate technical findings into business-focused recommendations involving cost, risk, complexity, and implementation timelines.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting technical recommendations to executive leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and collaborate across engineering organizations.
• Experience developing long-term product roadmaps, platform strategies, or vehicle architecture strategies is highly preferred.
• Experience within the commercial vehicle, heavy-duty truck, or automotive manufacturing industry is required.
• Previous consulting experience or leading engineering feasibility studies is a plus.

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