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Hypermotive Business Development Manager 24-Aug-2026

Hypermotive are an innovative, industry respected and rapidly growing engineering and manufacturing business in the eMobility sector. With a reputation for excellence, we are recognised as leaders in the supply of Electric Vehicle and Fuel Cell System integration and Wiring Systems design and tier 1 manufacturing, operating across multiple sectors including automotive, motorsport, commercial vehicle, off-highway, rail and marine. A highly capable, diverse, and dynamic team, we offer a fun, fast-paced working environment with a strong commercial focus.

We are looking to grow our presence in the High Performance Automotive & Motorsport sector, building on our manufacturing capability in wiring harnesses and electro-mechanical build. The Business Development Manager will drive new business across both design-and-build engagements, where Hypermotive designs and then manufactures the solution, and manufacture-only contracts, where we build to a customer’s existing specification.

You will bring a genuine interest in high performance technologies and a strong drive to find and win new business, alongside a disciplined approach to growing our existing customer accounts. Your input will directly contribute not only to the successful delivery of the project but also support the success and growth of the business.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Identifying, engaging and developing new business opportunities for harness manufacture and electro-mechanical build within the High Performance Automotive & Motorsport market.
• Building and managing relationships with existing customers, ensuring accounts are retained and grown through regular, proactive engagement.
• Representing Hypermotive at trade shows, motorsport events and industry conferences across the UK and Europe to build pipeline and raise brand awareness.
• Understanding customer requirements and working with the Commercial and Engineering teams to scope proposals, covering both design-and-manufacture and manufacture-only offerings.
• Preparing and presenting proposals and quotations in collaboration with the commercial/estimating function.
• Tracking and reporting on sales pipeline, customer engagement and conversion against agreed targets.
• Maintaining awareness of high performance and motorsport technology trends, competitor activity and wider market developments.
• Working closely with Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality teams to ensure commitments made during the sales process are deliverable.
• Leading or supporting customer visits, site meetings and contract negotiations.

Education and Skills Requirements
Skills & Experience Required:

• Proven experience in a business development or sales role within automotive, motorsport, or manufacturing.
• A keen personal interest in high performance automotive and motorsport technologies.
• Strong drive to identify and win new business, alongside the discipline to manage and grow existing accounts.
• Confident communicator, comfortable presenting and negotiating with customers at all levels.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly to events and customer sites across the UK and Europe.
• Full, clean UK driving licence.
• Fluent in English.

Desired:

• Existing network of contacts within motorsport teams or high-performance automotive OEMs/Tier 1s.
• Understanding of wiring harness and/or electro-mechanical build and manufacturing processes.
• Experience selling both design-and-build engineering services and contract manufacturing.
• Technical background or qualification in electrical or mechanical engineering.

Personal attributes:

• Flexible attitude
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Process-driven approach
• Team player
• Self-motivated
• Proactive approach to work
• Able to multi-task across several projects at one time

Hypermotive can offer:

• Interesting, varied and challenging work across a range of sectors
• Good rates of pay and generous holidays
• Highly flexible working arrangements
• Pension scheme
• Healthcare scheme

Hypermotive Principal Embedded Software and Control Engineer Job Spec 16-Jun-2026

Hypermotive are a dynamic, rapidly growing engineering and manufacturing business in the eMobility sector.  We are a highly experienced, friendly, and enthusiastic team, and offer a working environment that is fast paced yet fun, with a strong commercial focus.

A key member of Hypermotive’s Systems, Software and Compliance team, the Principal Embedded Software and Controls Engineer will be responsible for the derivation and management of software requirements for engineering projects, embedded C code software development, embedded software development and testing in the Matlab/Simulink environment, development of software tools, applications and scripts, and in-the-loop testing (e.g. SIL, MIL, HIL). Your deep software knowledge should be used to stay abreast of developments in AI software development to reduce the resource burden whilst maintaining or improving quality of outputs.

You will work on highly varied projects, across a wide range of vehicles and applications (including marine, automotive, defence, space, rail, commercial vehicle, off-highway, stationary power), focusing on the development and integration of proprietary controllers for fuel cells, fuel storage systems, energy storage and electrical systems.  Your input will directly contribute not only to the successful delivery of the project but also support the success and growth of the business.

You will work closely with the other functions within the engineering team to ensure right first time, on-time delivery of the project within budget. You will support design review, team, supplier and customer meetings as required and seek to resolve any issue assigned to you in a timely manner.

Alongside this, you will support the development and roll-out of Hypermotive’s quality processes and supporting tools associated with your work and build Hypermotive’s engineering capability to support business growth.

Education and Skills Requirements

Educated to degree level in engineering or other relevant discipline,

10+ years’ experience in relevant role and industry.

Technical Skills & Experience Required:

• Designing and defining software architectures
• Tools/applications development using Matlab/Python
• Working with Python within a Matlab environment
• Developing scripts in Matlab
• Developing Simulink and Stateflow models to MISRA/MAAB standards
• Software testing techniques in Matlab/Simulink
• Version control practices
• Embedded C code
• Working with microcontrollers and bootloaders
• Familiarity with embedded code generation, either auto-coded or scripted
• Working with communication protocols such as CAN and LIN
• Developing and working with software requirements

Soft Skills Required:

• Working in a customer-facing environment
• Working on the delivery of time-critical projects
• Working in a product development environment
• Ability to work with a customer to define requirements
• Technically leading embedded software development projects
• Agile software development processes and management tools such as JIRA
• Can define and refine software team processes
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving
• Contributing to commercial proposal writing
• Self-starter with ability to assist less-senior team members
• Openness to software development and testing automation using AI tools

Personal attributes:

• Flexible attitude
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Process-driven approach
• Team player
• Self-motivated
• Proactive approach to work
• Able to multi-task across several projects at one time

Hypermotive can offer:

• Interesting, varied and challenging work across a range of sectors
• Good rates of pay and generous holidays
• Highly flexible working arrangements
• Pension scheme
• Healthcare scheme

Hypermotive Project Manager Job Spec 27-April-2026

Hypermotive are an innovative, industry respected and rapidly growing engineering and manufacturing business in the eMobility sector. With a reputation for excellence, we are recognised as leaders in the supply of Electric Vehicle and Fuel Cell System integration and Wiring Systems design and tier 1 manufacturing operating across multiple sectors including automotive, commercial vehicle, off-highway, rail and marine.  A highly capable, diverse, and dynamic team, we offer a fun, fast-paced working environment with a strong commercial focus.

As a key member of the Hypermotive Programmes team, the Project Manager will be responsible for the planning and delivery of new and existing Engineering projects.  Working closely with our highly experienced Engineering team and other business functions, you will support the on-time delivery of projects within budget.  You will work on a portfolio of projects across all aspects of electrical systems and at all stages of the product design lifecycle.  These will be a broad spectrum of product development and commercial projects, as well as some government grant-funded projects.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working alongside the Commercial team, manage the pre-award phase from initial tender to contract award, ensuring the business is fully engaged and that all technical requirements, timescales, costs, risks, contingencies, mitigations, resources are visible, understood and accepted prior to the programme commencement.
• Being the principal interface to the customer during the delivery phases of projects, managing all aspects of communications with the customer including expectations management.
• Ensuring effective communication and information transfer between the customer and Hypermotive internal teams.
• Management of multiple active projects from receipt of order until project close out in line with customer requirements and Hypermotive’s project management process including scope, timing, budget and risk tracking.
• Ensuring effective and controlled management of change requests on active projects.
• Stakeholder management including both internal communications and reporting, and external customer communications.
• Regular project progress reporting internally and externally to the customer and other key stakeholders to the required level.
• Support management of the Engineering resource plan interleaving the multiple concurrent projects.
• Ensuring effective communication and information transfer between Engineering and Manufacturing on projects with a physical hardware output.
• Coordination with purchasing and accounts to ensure effective management of parts purchasing, subcontracted deliverables and invoicing.
• Escalation of any project risks, issues or opportunities within the business in a timely manner.
• Generation and maintenance of key project documentation.
• Attend and lead, as required, team, supplier and customer meetings and seek to resolve any issue assigned to you in a timely manner.

Hypermotive Electro Mechanical Build Technician 18-Apr-2024

Hypermotive are an innovative, industry respected and rapidly growing engineering and manufacturing business in the eMobility sector. With a reputation for excellence, we are recognised as leaders in the supply of Electric Vehicle and Fuel Cell System integration, Wiring Systems design and tier 1 manufacturing, operating across multiple sectors including automotive, motorsport, commercial vehicle, off-highway, rail, marine and aerospace.  A highly capable, diverse, and dynamic team, we offer a fun, fast-paced working environment with a strong commercial focus.

Our manufacturing projects include low voltage harnesses and high voltage cable assemblies, power distribution units, vehicle controllers, and off-board test equipment from prototype through to series production.  Within your role, you can be sure that your input directly contributes not only to the successful delivery of each project but also supports the success and growth of the business as a whole.

As a key part of the Hypermotive Manufacturing team, you will contribute to the following activities:

• Build of complex high and low voltage electromechanical assemblies for prototypes and products in development to support delivery to internal and external customers.
• Installation of electrical and mechanical components such as contactors, relays, PCBAs, LV and HV wiring harnesses, fasteners, seals etc…
• Work from basic drawings and instructions where some level of process development and hand modification may be required.
• Support the Manufacturing Engineering Manager in the development of manufacturing processes that are suitable for production – to include:
  • Process development.
  • Tool and jig specification/selection.
  • Implementation of in-process and end of line tests.
  • Preparation of production documentation including work instructions.
  • Establishing production cycle times.
• Carry out process reviews and develop process improvements under the direction of the Manufacturing Engineering Manager.
• Production build and test of complex electromechanical assemblies following documented processes and controls to support delivery to our production customers.
• Complete and maintain build records and production documents.
• Occasional manufacture of basic LV and HV wiring harnesses.
• Occasional provision of off-site support to customers.
• Help to minimise the impact of Hypermotive’s activities on the environment and to adhere all relevant legislation and duties of care regarding the environment

Hypermotive Harness Technician Job Specification 18-Apr-2025

Responsibilities include:

• Manufacture of motorsport and automotive electrical harnesses
• Build of low and high voltage assemblies and enclosures
• Perform end of line harness test procedures such as continuity, isolation and resistive tests
• Manage BOMs and procurement of parts
• Maintain workshop records and drawings
• Management of stores and stock control

Hypermotive Wiring Systems Junior Harness Technician Job Spec 8-Jul-2024 v1.1

Hypermotive are a dynamic engineering company with a highly experienced, friendly, enthusiastic team.  The working environment is fast-paced yet fun with a strong commercial focus.

This in a unique opportunity to learn the trade of wiring harness manufacture from one of the leading harnessing businesses in the UK. Wiring harness manufacture is skill that is in growing demand to support the growth of the electrification/e-mobility.

You will work on highly varied projects across motorsport and automotive, both on and off-vehicle, where your input will directly contribute not only to the successful delivery of projects but also support the success and growth of the business.

Part of the Hypermotive Wiring Systems team, you will contribute to the following activities:

• Manufacture of motorsport and automotive electrical harnesses
• Build of low and high voltage assemblies and enclosures
• Perform end of line harness test procedures such as continuity, isolation and resistive tests
• Manage BOMs and procurement of parts
• Maintain workshop records and drawings
• Management of stores and stock control

Interfacing with in house engineering team as required to support harness and electrical system design development.

• Full on the job training will be provided so no prior experience is necessary