# Electrical Vehicle Line Manager

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

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## Description

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

## Skills

### Required
- project delivery
- team leadership
- electronics architecture
- supplier partnership management
- automotive market trend knowledge

### Nice to have
- mechanical engineering
- manufacturing engineering
- automotive engineering
- software/hardware project delivery

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