# Manufacturing Systems Engineer **Company**: McLaren Automotive **Location**: Woking **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854 **Apply**: https://mclarencareers.mclaren.com/careers/JobDetail/Manufacturing-Systems-Engineer/59663?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4dc5e0c8-f80 ## Description The Manufacturing Systems Engineer will work under the technical direction of the Principal Engineer – Process & Systems, and report to the Controls Manager. The role involves delivering and integrating manufacturing electrical processes, diagnostic systems, software applications, and vehicle commissioning solutions across vehicle programmes. Key responsibilities include: - Translating Manufacturing Controls objectives into clear process definitions, system requirements, software requirements, interface specifications, validation activities, implementation plans, and production-readiness evidence. - Owning and delivering assigned technical work packages covering diagnostic toolchains, End-of-Line validation, software download, coding, commissioning, traceability, fault diagnosis, and manufacturing controls applications. - Authoring, configuring, debugging, validating, releasing, and maintaining diagnostic applications, test procedures, guided workflows, ECU programming routines, configuration processes, and automated fault-finding sequences using ETAS GRADE-X and OTX-based authoring environments. - Developing, integrating, testing, deploying, and supporting software solutions across multiple platforms. - Applying software engineering principles across the full development lifecycle. - Creating reusable software components, diagnostic libraries, interfaces, scripts, utilities, and automation tools that improve engineering efficiency, process consistency, system reliability, and maintainability. - Integrating Manufacturing Controls applications with vehicle diagnostic interfaces, production equipment, databases, APIs, MES platforms, enterprise systems, and reporting or traceability solutions. - Verifying that assigned solutions satisfy defined quality, cybersecurity, configuration-control, throughput, reliability, maintainability, and production-readiness requirements. - Leading structured investigations into electrical, software, diagnostic, controls, and integration faults. - Providing technical guidance, coaching, and peer review to engineers, suppliers, and cross-functional stakeholders. - Coordinating cross-functional and supplier deliverables, providing clear delivery updates, and escalating constraints promptly to protect programme timing, quality, cost, cybersecurity, and production continuity. The ideal candidate will have: - Significant experience in automotive electrical systems, diagnostics, manufacturing controls, process engineering, systems integration, vehicle software deployment, or a closely related engineering discipline. - Proven experience authoring and maintaining diagnostic or test content using ETAS GRADE-X, OTX, ODX/PDX, or a comparable diagnostic authoring platform. - Demonstrable software programming capability across multiple platforms, programming languages, frameworks, and development environments. - Experience delivering production-quality software applications, utilities, integrations, or automation solutions through requirements capture, design, development, validation, controlled release, implementation, handover, and operational support. - Experience integrating software with diagnostic hardware, vehicle networks, databases, APIs, production equipment, manufacturing systems, or enterprise platforms. Success will be measured by: - On-time delivery and validated readiness of assigned VP, PP, SOP, and series-production work packages. - Reliable authoring, validation, release, and operational performance of ETAS GRADE-X diagnostic content, test sequences, programming routines, and manufacturing workflows. - Successful delivery of robust, maintainable, secure, and supportable software solutions across multiple platforms. - Effective integration and support of diagnostic, software-download, commissioning, traceability, and manufacturing process capability. - Achievement of agreed quality, throughput, availability, compliance, software reliability, and fault-reduction objectives within the assigned scope. - Reduction in recurring electrical, software, diagnostic, controls, and integration faults through effective root-cause analysis and verified corrective action. - Timely maintenance and closure of requirements, software documentation, validation evidence, risks, issues, actions, source-control records, releases, and supplier dependencies. - Demonstrable improvement in team capability through technical guidance, reusable software assets, standardised authoring practices, and effective knowledge transfer. 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 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 - Vehicle electrical and electronic architectures - CAN, CAN FD, LIN, Automotive Ethernet, UDS, and DoIP - End-of-Line systems, software download, coding, configuration, commissioning, and manufacturing diagnostics - ETAS GRADE-X authoring - OTX and ODX/PDX-based diagnostic content - Software development across multiple platforms - Programming capability using multiple languages and frameworks - Software architecture, object-oriented programming, modular design, source control, code review, automated testing, continuous integration, deployment, and release governance - Cybersecurity, authentication, access control, secure software deployment, configuration management, and auditability ### Nice to have - Experience within high-performance, premium, or low-volume automotive manufacturing - Exposure to supplier and production-facing environments --- Source: [Apply at mclarencareers.mclaren.com](https://mclarencareers.mclaren.com/careers/JobDetail/Manufacturing-Systems-Engineer/59663?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)