Electrical Vehicle Line Manager

The Vehicle Line Manager has overall responsibility to deliver the electrical systems content to vehicle programmes.

As a direct report to the Head of EE Programmes, the role has responsibility for delivery of complete electrical systems for a full vehicle programme, delivering content at committed timing, budget and quality.

Responsibilities

• Manages the overall feature implementation plan for the project, aligning project content with vehicle milestones and validation plans.
• Responsible for all the vehicle electronics technical deliverables (attributes, DVP, DFMEAs, Part Release,...) of the project, in accordance to the McLaren Development Process (MDP) and ISO26262 requirements.
• People management and deliverables responsibility of a programme delivery team made of a mix of both internal and external headcount across electrical hardware (including EDS) and software.
• Responsible for the Electronics commercial deliverables (D&D/Tooling/BOM costs) for the project, in collaboration with the Electronics department Managers.
• Define the electrical content budget for the project, in collaboration with PMO and programme Chief Engineers / Vehicle Line Directors.
• Represent the “Electronics” department within the project team, reporting information, concerns and milestone achievements.
• In-Plant Support: Provide visible, proactive, and technically competent support during pre-production builds and launch phases.

Requirements

• A substantive amount of experience with a demonstrated track record of project delivery.
• Degree in engineering or equivalent technical qualification (mechanical, manufacturing, or automotive engineering preferred).
• Team leadership within the automotive industry or similar domain.
• Electronics architecture experience (harness, CAN/LIN protocols, ECUs, sensors) in automotive.
• Body/Chassis and Software/Hardware project delivery experience for automotive applications.
• Supplier partnership management.
• Automotive market trend knowledge and experience of business model development (e.g. make vs buy).

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