Senior Specialist Product Integrity

POSITION: Senior Specialist Product Integrity

POSTING END DATE: 16/02/2026

LOCATION: Whitley (Coventry) / Gaydon

SALARY: Competitive

At JLR, we're on a continual journey to reimagine the future of modern luxury, and we want you to be part of it. Through our exquisite and timeless house of brands – Range Rover, Defender, Discovery and Jaguar – we're defining a new approach to sustainability and providing exceptional experiences. As a leader here, you have the opportunity to influence the way we think, providing your unique insight and vision for a better future. It's time to become a proud creator.
 
WHAT TO EXPECT

The Product Integrity team identifies all potential product safety issues withing products in the field as well as more recently providing support in the product design and development space to prevent/mitigate safety risks identified during product development phases.

This new role of Senior TS Product Integrity is needed to be a focus within the new product development space for new technologies such as ADAS, Electrified Powertrain etc, as a consultant/facilitator bringing together the considerations of safety regulation, product liability litigation and whole business risk management in the arena’s of Active, Passive, Functional Safety and Real World safety to provide guidance and direction to product engineering teams in relation to industry state of the art and pragmatic system design to optimise product cost vs safety risk in relation to new feature creation for example ADAS, Vehicle High Voltage systems. The Product Integrity team have identified several situations where immature data analytics has identified significant system requirement on cost that were unjustified as a consequence of there being no process or forum for independent review and judication of decisions. Lack of early intervention leads to litigation problematic documentation which needs to be avoided.

The role whilst providing counsel on product systems in development, will challenge the rigour and technical arguments within functional safety and real world safety assumptions, using the competence and knowledge gained whilst leading development of safety critical systems, for example vehicle speed control design and development of powertrain control systems, by providing validation against the knowledge and understanding of the historical precedence of prior decisions both by JLR and the global automotive industry.

The TS role is fundamental to evolution of the assessment procedural framework to ensure JLR remain state of the art in product safety to ensure in ways that seek to continually improve its robustness and support the needs of the growing, evolving and diversifying global product safety and compliance environment created around new technology systems such as ADAS and EV systems. This role is critical to ensuring product safety at new vehicle launch, preventing product recall costs by ensuring robust safety design and acceptable levels of residual risk.

The role is to deliver the newly defined Level 2 Product Safety and compliance group process in relation to vehicles under development as agreed with the board directors for Product Engineering, Vehicle Line, Company Quality and Legal & Compliance.

THE ROLE

Key Responsibilities

• Define manage and lead the delivery of JLR’s Product Safety strategy in conjunction with the Product Integrity Director, to ensure the integrity of JLR product design to facilitate a robust cross company product safety working group at LL5 to LL3 cross functional levels to steer and guide the JLR engineering teams on safe product development, for example designs compliant with General Product Safety Regulations


• Lead and coach the cross functional team of safety specialists to ensure pragmatic optimisation of product safety design.


• Work closely with cross function, operational and senior management teams to define JLR’s product safety strategy.


• Provide high level guidance on the resolution of key technical and strategic challenges relating to product safety.


• Manage and lead the strategic development and delivery systems required to ensure JLR continue to meet regulator expectations of the required technologies for the identification of potential Critical Concerns from cross business and onboard data sources.


• Steer and support the development of Proof-of-Concept technologies with support from key suppliers for new technologies with a Critical Concerns lens on emerging onboard and off board technologies.


• Embed the Product Liability mindset within systems development documentation to ensure factual and data supported product safety design decisions.


• Undertake any other work to support the Product Integrity Director in connection with product safety design as required.

Key Interactions

• All areas of Engineering


• Vehicle Line


• Finance


• Legal Counsel, OGC


• Manufacturing


• Purchasing (STA)


• Safety


• HR


• Driver Safety Committee


• Product Safety Compliance Committee


• Recall Determination Committee


• Legal and Compliance

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Significant experience and knowledge in the field critical concerns, forensics and robust data analysis against a background of product safety


• Experience of the global legal framework and safety regulations


• Experience of litigation defence support


• Significant knowledge of product engineering safety systems development (ISO 26262 etc), vehicle safety systems development with a proven track record of product launch and market delivery


• Expert in utilising functional and real-world safety data for system residual risk evaluation and resolution and consensus of design direction


• Electrical Electronics or Embedded Software related degree or equivalent experience preferred

Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Previous experience of working with Universities and Research partners, legal teams, standards and industry regulators


• Experience in people development and team management


• Experience in strategy development and deployment

Personal Profile

• Demonstrates our Creators' Code behaviours of Customer Love, Unity, Integrity, Growth and Impact.


• An individual with a customer first mindset who is easy to do business with and makes people feel special, driven to deliver experiences that are personalised, transparent and dependable.


• A determined individual, highly driven, committed and results-orientated who works with pace, energy and confidence.


• An individual who is able to apply analytical rigour to develop and drive well thought out operational plans, collaborate across functions and combine a short term, pragmatic focus with strategic vision.


• An individual who is resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, responds constructively to new ideas and input in a changing business environment.


• An individual who is able to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style.


• A sophisticated communicator who is able to communicate directly, clearly and openly 


• An individual who can demonstrate good capability in leadership and management skills, who can motivate, develop and lead functional and cross-functional teams.


• An individual who demonstrates the utmost Integrity and can learn from mistakes and robustly embed learning.


• An individual who is comfortable challenging all stakeholders with strong influencing and engagement skills.

Creating Modern Luxury requires a modern approach to work. At JLR, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees flexibility around how, when and where they work. Some roles require more on-site work, but details of this can be discussed with the hiring manager during the interview stage.

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.