Manufacturing Systems Technical Lead

We are seeking a Manufacturing Systems Technical Lead to administer, maintain, and support the manufacturing execution and quality systems that run McLaren's digitised factories.

The successful candidate will provide day-to-day operational administration, configuration control, and incident resolution across the Manufacturing Systems estate.

Responsibilities:

• Administer DELMIA Apriso MOM solution and Interfaces to 3DEXPERIENCE, SAP, and associated manufacturing OT integrations.
• Maintain system health across environments, releases, and controlled change in a production-critical setting.
• Operate within ITIL-aligned service management processes, supporting incident, problem, change, configuration, and release management.
• Work within ISA-95, Purdue-model, and OT/IT security boundaries to ensure availability, integrity, and safe operation of manufacturing systems.
• Perform system, environment, and configuration management across development, test, and production.
• Assess, schedule, and implement controlled changes with appropriate rollback plans.
• Triage, diagnose, and resolve incidents and service requests.
• Plan and execute releases and deployments of MES/MOM and interface changes with minimal disruption to production operations.
• Administer interfaces and data flows between MES, ERP, and the data platform.
• Apply security, access control, and patching in line with OT/IT policy, least privilege principles, and ISA-99 / IEC 62443 zoning.
• Maintain runbooks, knowledge articles, and administration documentation.

Requirements:

• Solid grounding in application support, environment management, configuration management, change management, and incident processes in an ITIL-aligned environment.
• Understanding of manufacturing integration, including interfaces, batch jobs, message queues, and ISA-95 data flows.
• Practical troubleshooting capability using SQL, application and integration logs, monitoring tooling, and Windows and Linux server environments.
• Exposure to 3DEXPERIENCE, SAP, Microsoft Azure, Fabric, unified namespace configuration, OPC UA, or MQTT would be advantageous.
• Basic knowledge of development technologies (C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) is desirable.
• ITIL Foundation certification / awareness is desirable.

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 adaptable 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