Seat Development Validation Engineer

About the role

Lear is looking for a Seat Development Validation Engineer to join its international engineering team and support a major automotive seating program for a premium UK customer. The role acts as the key link between Engineering and Validation, making sure seat systems meet customer, legal and safety requirements throughout product development. It combines technical validation expertise with project coordination, stakeholder management and customer-facing communication.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare, maintain and manage validation plans for seat mechanisms, seat structures and complete seat systems
• Define validation requirements and test requests based on customer specifications, legal regulations and safety standards
• Coordinate validation activities, including timing, cost tracking, sample availability and test scheduling
• Ensure test samples are delivered and prepared according to project requirements
• Monitor the setup and execution of static, dynamic, durability, functional and crash tests performed by test laboratories
• Analyze and validate test results to assess product compliance and performance
• Prepare technical validation reports and communicate findings to engineering teams and customers
• Drive alignment on corrective actions, design changes, supplier changes and retesting following non-compliant results
• Maintain validation data and project tracking in the validation management system
• Work with internal stakeholders, suppliers, test labs, manufacturing plants and customers, and support decisions with technical recommendations

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field is preferred but not mandatory
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience preferred
• Experience in a Validation Engineering or similar role
• Automotive industry experience
• Fluent Czech, written and spoken
• Experience with customer requirements, test specifications, standards and compliance activities
• Ability to analyze technical test results and write clear reports
• Strong planning, coordination, forecasting and organizational skills; able to handle multiple activities and changing priorities

Nice-to-have qualifications

• Experience with seating systems, interior systems or occupant safety products
• Previous customer-facing experience
• Knowledge of crash testing, durability testing or functional validation
• Experience in aerospace or another highly regulated engineering industry

What we offer

• Attractive salary
• Flexible working hours
• 5 weeks of vacation
• Bonuses for life and work anniversaries
• Commuting and meal allowances
• Employer contribution to pension insurance
• Free-time vouchers, discounted T-Mobile tariffs, multisport and Makro cards
• Free sports and theatre tickets