# Senior Passive Safety Engineer

**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 role of the Passive Safety Senior Engineer is to find and validate passive safety design solutions on minor future McLaren road vehicles, for all world regions.

The Senior Engineer sets crash targets for the programme and leads solutions to the design of componentry and systems which result in a vehicle capable of achieving legal and internal standards for occupant, pedestrian, and structural requirements in crash events.

Key responsibilities:

- Achieve acceptable Passive Safety performance in vehicle crash tests and vehicle PS performance for a derivative or facelift vehicle programme

- Set crash targets for the programme and lead solutions to design componentry and systems

- Plan and execute the crash testing programme, including nomination and management of suppliers and budgets

- Prepare and execute tests

- Report and present to stakeholders, such as programme management and chief engineer

- Lead cross-functional review to achieve passive safety targets when shortfalls are identified

- Assist in coordinating Passive Safety CAE activities for performance status

- Maintain passive safety test timing plan and report through programme DVP

- Investigate and nominate test houses and raise POs for test programmes

- Perform proof-of-concept tests where required

- Ensure vehicles and test materials used are representative of design intent, fit for testing, and agreed with stakeholders

- Organise workshop technician support for vehicle re-builds, parts, and teardowns

- Write test specifications for all Passive Safety tests

- Conduct passive safety testing as required

- Perform post-analysis of Passive Safety test data

- Raise engineering issue documentation (QCRs) if concerns are found

- Support running changes and personalisation projects with advice on Passive Safety implications

Requirements:

- Technical knowledge in restraint systems and understanding of occupant injury criteria

- Understanding of vehicle crashworthiness

- Knowledge of regulatory standards

- Experience in Passive Safety engineering is required

Benefits:

- Structured career development framework

- 25 days' holiday, plus bank holidays

- 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

- Generous parental leave policies

- Wellbeing initiatives

## Skills

### Required
- Passive Safety engineering
- restraint systems
- vehicle crashworthiness
- regulatory standards

### Nice to have
- Passive Safety testing
- CAE
- component design

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