# Senior Systems Engineer - HV Battery Systems

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Woking
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
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## Description

To ensure McLaren Automotive continues to be at the forefront of the Automotive market, we are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our Powertrain department to design, engineer and deliver High Voltage Energy Storage Systems (HV ESS).

**Responsibilities:**

- ESS ownership and delivery to vehicle project requirements of quality, cost and weight, on time and on budget

- Manage ESS design releases, technical specifications, DFMEAs, DVPs and Quality Concern Resolution

- Ensure ESS integrates with other Electric Drive Systems (EDS) using aligned technical specifications

- Ensure ESS design solutions deliver systems that meet attribute targets in NVH, thermal, durability and performance (power, emissions and response)

- Work with ESS design engineers, ESS suppliers and concept teams to achieve efficient, innovative and lightweight designs

- Support Powertrain CAE teams with ESS simulation activities

- ESS supplier management

- ESS BOM management and tracking

- Work with supply chain management to ensure delivery of the ESS on schedule

- Support vehicle build and development activities

- Support cell, module and pack level testing to facilitate data gathering and analysis

- Working within and influencing the vehicle programme and engineering management teams to guarantee that the Powertrain department collectively delivers the whole vehicle specification targets

- Delivery of ESS for all projects in line with MDP and that project management KPIs are on track

- Preparation and presentation of material to support external and internal project status reviews

- Support project and engineering management with ESS development budgets and expenditure

- Provide support on ESS technical risk management

- Support links with external organisations on collaborative research projects

- Support testing with HiL and rig systems to prove integration quality

- Design and implementation of high and low voltage electrical systems within the ESS

**Requirements:**

- A high level of technical knowledge and experience of high performance ESS design and development

- Good understanding of Li-Ion technologies, Ultra/Supercapacitor storage solutions, Functional Safety and High Voltage Switchgear design

- Understanding of ESS embedded systems such as Battery Management System (BMS)

- Experience of ESS design verification plans and testing

- Experience in component release management and problem solving

- Experience of executing ESS FMEA and DFM plans

- Good CATIA V5 2D/3D skills with GD&T application experience

- Experienced in OEM or tier one component delivery

- Mechanical, Electrical/Electronic or Automotive Engineering Degree 2:1 or above

**Benefits:**

- 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 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

## Skills

### Required
- High Voltage Energy Storage Systems
- ESS design
- Li-Ion technologies
- Functional Safety
- High Voltage Switchgear design
- Battery Management System
- CATIA V5

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