# Component Quality Lead

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Sheffield
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

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## Description

Job Title: Component Quality Lead

Ref # 58981

Date posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Sheffield

Business area: Sheffield

Department: Sheffield

Position level: 5

Working time: Full Time

Contract type: Permanent

Working pattern: 8:30am - 5:30pm Monday to Friday

Salary: Not Stated

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Primary Quality contact for pre-impregnated composite projects at the Sheffield facility

- Work with Customer quality representative to establish and manage suitable product standards and processes

- Provide dedicated Quality representation for allocated project / area in meetings, team events and day-to-day activities

- Development and approval of visual quality standards for cosmetic vehicle components including approval documentation

- Support the implementation of new production technologies at MCTC Sheffield

- Develop Quality metrics and drive their implementation

- Support the team in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) using a Practical Problem Solving approach

- Lead the application of Quality tools (such as PFMEA, SPC and MSA) in the allocated area

- Support MCTC Supplier Quality representative on incoming material issues and generate actions which improve the incoming material quality

- Support the development of measurement techniques for new products

**Key Accountabilities:**

- Support all aspects of Quality for the assigned area of responsibility

- Deliver all aspects of Quality activity in line with targets, KPIs and milestones

- Support the containment of Quality Concern Reports (QCR) within 24 hours

- Support the resolution of Quality concerns using a structured approach to problem solving (PPS, 8D or similar)

- Build effective cross functional relationships and contribute to achieving a high-performance team environment

- Responsible for defining the visual inspection process to be operated in production

- Responsible for the creation and maintenance of quality documentation to support new and on-going activities

- Development and approval of visual quality standards for cosmetic vehicle components including approval documentation

- Responsible for collection and reporting results to the Leadership team

**Requirements:**

- Automotive core tools certification is essential

- Experience of pre-impregnated composite production is essential

- Experience of working with automotive paint and preparation processes of carbon parts is essential

- Experience in automotive manufacturing is advantageous

- Knowledge of Automotive quality systems is advantageous

- Auditing to established quality standards (IATF 16949) is desirable

- Experience of niche vehicle (low volume) programmes desirable

- Excellent communication and I.T. skills

- Experience of Minitab software is desirable

**Personal Attributes:**

- Passionate, enthusiastic and committed, with a can-do attitude

- Effective communication and inter-personal skills

- Self-driven individual, who can also work within a team

- Self-directed/manged and motivated towards achieving goals

- Excellent planning and organisation skills

- Ability to build effective relationships and network locally, within the business

- Make complex issues clear and transparent

- Ability to effectively influence, negotiate and use conflict resolution skills

- Valid Passport and Driving License

- Right to work in the UK

- Flexible approach to working

**Benefits:**

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Automotive core tools certification
- Pre-impregnated composite production
- Automotive paint and preparation processes of carbon parts
- Automotive manufacturing
- Automotive quality systems
- Auditing to established quality standards (IATF 16949)
- Minitab software