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Lead Engineer - Carbon Fibre Structures

McLaren Automotive Woking senior full-time

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Description

You will lead the design and engineering of carbon fibre structures components across all McLaren Automotive vehicle lines and projects.

Your responsibilities include:

  • Managing and coordinating technical experts in their field
  • Leading the team to deliver systems in line with targets, KPIs, and milestones
  • Achieving required standards on design and engineering integrity
  • Working closely with vehicle line and body engineering leadership and stakeholders
  • Delivering technical specifications, DVPs, and DFMEAs for all systems
  • Defining future component and system technical strategies and technologies roadmaps
  • Containing quality concerns within programme targets
  • Solving and closing quality concerns promptly
  • Developing relationships with strategic outsourced resource partners
  • Promoting a simultaneous approach to body styling, design, and engineering
  • Developing technical competence within the in-house team
  • Supporting supplier nomination strategy

You will need:

  • Experience in leadership and influencing of direct and indirect teams
  • Experience in an OEM or tier one with a high level of body structures systems technical knowledge
  • Experience on a wide range of systems and components
  • Knowledge of carbon fibre composites manufacturing technologies
  • Experience of composite materials testing and FE analysis
  • Experience with cost estimation and engineering of carbon composites parts
  • Proven ability in delivery project management
  • Good level of experience in automotive design and development function
  • Relevant experience in lightweight body design and materials technology
  • PC literacy and MS Office skills
  • Knowledge of DFMEA and GD&T
  • Sound commercial and financial awareness
  • Degree level in mechanical or automotive engineering

We offer:

  • Structured career development framework
  • 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday
  • Enhanced company pension scheme
  • Discretionary annual bonus award
  • Private medical insurance and health cash plan
  • Life assurance benefit
  • Ability to apply for a sabbatical
  • Generous parental leave policies
  • Wellbeing initiatives

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Skills

Required

  • Carbon Fibre Composites
  • Body Structures systems
  • DFMEA
  • GD&T
  • FE Analysis
  • Cost estimation
  • Project management
  • Automotive design and development
  • Lightweight Body Design
  • Materials technology

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