Manufacturing Engineering Manager

As a Manufacturing Engineering Manager at McLaren Automotive, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the long-term manufacturing structure plan, ensuring that facility layouts, production flows, and capacity strategies support business growth, product development, and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing long-term structure plans aligned with product roadmaps, engineering changes, and business forecasts
• Assessing future production capacity requirements and defining equipment, layout, and collaborating on headcount requirements
• Leading scenario planning to identify structural bottlenecks and investment priorities
• Designing and optimising factory layouts, production lines, workstations, and material flow
• Supporting new product introductions (NPI) by ensuring structural readiness for new processes and equipment
• Managing project plans, risks, deliverables, and capital requirements
• Providing regular status reporting to stakeholders, including senior leadership
• Identifying opportunities to improve production flow, ergonomics, takt time adherence, and overall factory efficiency
• Analysing capacity utilisation, OEE, and bottleneck data to inform structural changes
• Developing and maintaining the capital expenditure (CAPEX) roadmap relating to layout, tooling, and structural improvements
• Producing cost-benefit analyses and ROI assessments for structural projects
• Line-managing structure planning specialists, layout engineers, and project staff
• Fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence

The ideal candidate will have:

• Strategic thinking and long-term planning skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Leadership and team development skills
• Cross-functional collaboration skills
• Technical expertise in manufacturing processes
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Highly motivated, resilient, and agile
• Data-driven and process-focused

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

• 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 that 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