Technical Director

Company Overview

Officine Motobici is an Italian motorsport manufacturer developing a purpose‑built single‑cylinder competition motorcycle for world championship motocross. Incorporated in Emilia‑Romagna and operating from the heart of Motor Valley, the company is funded, has an established engineering supply chain, and is executing a confirmed development programme with specialist partners across powertrain simulation, combustion CFD, prototype manufacture, and dynamometer testing.

Responsibilities

• Design authority across engine, chassis, and control systems R&D programmes.
• Central coordination of the engine design programme, managing multiple external specialist partners while maintaining 100% IP ownership.
• Technical specification derivation from competitor analysis programme: teardown, 3D scanning, suspension dynamometry, and on‑track data acquisition.
• Factory and customer motorcycle design direction — ensuring identical factory‑specification hardware across the OM Reparto Corse factory team and all customer programmes.
• Leadership and mentoring of the in‑house design team, recruited from the MUNER/ISSAM and UniMoRe DIEF academic network.
• Total project management: milestone delivery, supplier selection, budget oversight, and programme risk management across all engineering workstreams.

Qualifications

• Championship‑level motorsport powertrain or chassis development experience — MXGP, MotoGP, WorldSBK, WRC, WEC, F1, or national championship backgrounds.
• Minimum 10 years in senior technical, race engineering, or programme engineering roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading multi‑disciplinary engineers in a high‑performance environment.