Quality Engineer

Job Title: Quality Engineer

You will be responsible for managing the whole series vehicle QCR (Quality Concern Report) landscape, ensuring accuracy, focus, and governance. You will use data inputs from Warranty, McLaren Product Audit (MPA), and Manufacturing Quality to steer business focus on the most critical issues.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse and record Warranty claims reported by the global dealer network.
• Raise, assign, and facilitate QCRs (Quality Concern Reports) through the process where required.
• Govern quality concern system for all issues meeting threshold criteria.
• Drive activity on prioritised issues and manage status reporting to senior management.
• Lead daily cross-functional assessments of field concerns with Engineering, Production, and Quality teams.
• Feedback the voice of the customer to MPC (McLaren Production Centre).
• Maintain and generate specific concern KPI’s for various business uses.
• Work with Warranty, MPA team, Manufacturing Quality to deliver a single agenda for quality.
• Collaborate with Engineering, SQD (Supplier Quality Development), Manufacturing and Suppliers to guarantee completion of countermeasures and lessons learned activities.
• Assist in the improvement of business processes (Warranty, MPA and Vehicle Line Quality).

What You’ll Bring:

• Business Knowledge: Experience of OEM warranty processes, experience of production quality management processes, knowledge of automotive parts and McLaren products is advantageous.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Experience: Intermediate to advanced level of knowledge for Microsoft Office, automotive relevant degree or sufficient foundation in engineering, understanding and experience in a manufacturing/process driven environment, practical problem solving skills, 8D (8 Disciplines) or Six Sigma experience would be beneficial, experienced user of Quality improvement tools, QMS (Quality Management System) etc, project management skills would be beneficial, experience of stakeholder and workflow coordination.
• Personal Attributes: High attention to detail and quality standards, be approachable and be relationship-focused, results orientated individual, with demonstrable track record of on-time delivery, be a creative thinker, developing ideas and communication tools, self-motivated to deliver excellence, ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the business, able to work in and lead teams, capable of representing a world class automotive brand, perform in an environment of continuous improvement.

What We’ll Do for You:

• We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• Structured career development framework
• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
• Enhanced company pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus award
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Life assurance benefit
• Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• Generous parental leave policies
• A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice