# Head of Series Manufacturing

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Sheffield
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

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## Description

Working within the site leadership team of the McLaren Composites Technology Centre's based in Sheffield/Rotherham, reporting to the Plant Director, the Head of Series Manufacturing will provide strategic and operational leadership of manufacturing operations to deliver safe, high-quality vehicle component production.

Responsibilities:

- Maintain a safety-first culture and ensure compliance with H&S standards across all manufacturing operations.

- Own facility management, including maintenance, replacement, and lifecycle management of existing tooling and production CAPEX.

- Design, optimise, and maintain site layout to maximise flow, safety, ergonomics, and space utilisation.

- Standardise and control process layouts to support consistent, high-quality series production and efficient running changes.

- Plan capacity, staffing, and resources to meet current and forecast demand.

- Deliver manufacturing infrastructure and resourcing to meet productivity, quality, availability, and OEE targets.

- Lead initiatives to reduce scrap, shorten cycle times, simplify BOMs, improve product quality, and increase equipment availability.

- Champion Lean, Six Sigma/DMAIC, TPM, Kaizen, and automation/technology adoption to drive improvements.

- Oversee preventative maintenance, spares, and reliability programmes to maintain equipment availability.

- Ensure systems, fixtures, and processes meet product quality and customer specifications.

- Work with cross-functional teams and suppliers to secure parts quality, lead times, and supplier readiness for series production.

- Undertake costing modelling, prepare CAPEX proposals, and manage budgets, forecasts, and cost reduction activities.

- Lead root cause analysis, ensure timely corrective/preventive actions, and report KPIs and risks to stakeholders.

- Lead, coach, and develop the manufacturing support team, setting clear objectives and fostering a collaborative, accountable culture.

Requirements:

- Degree in Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.

- Minimum 10 years in manufacturing engineering/operations; at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.

- Proven experience in vehicle or complex assembly manufacturing, launches, model-year and running changes, and cross-functional delivery.

- Strong technical knowledge of manufacturing systems, equipment, facilities, tooling lifecycle, and regulatory/safety compliance.

- Demonstrable experience in capacity planning, production scheduling, maintenance strategy, supplier quality management, and OEE improvement.

- Track record of driving CI/automation using DMAIC, Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, or equivalent.

- Financial literacy: budget ownership, CAPEX process, business case development, and costing modelling.

- Excellent communicator and influencer; able to manage multiple stakeholders and present performance and risk to senior leadership.

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 lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

- Generous parental leave policies

- Range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice

## Skills

### Required
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- DMAIC
- TPM
- Kaizen
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Operations Management
- Leadership

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