# Composites Laminator

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

**Apply**: https://mclarencareers.mclaren.com/careers/JobDetail/Composites-Laminator/59097
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## Description

Job Title: Composites Laminator

We are seeking a skilled Composites Laminator to join our team in Sheffield. As a Composites Laminator, you will be responsible for the production of automotive parts using pre-preg composite materials.

Key Responsibilities:

- Production of automotive parts using pre-preg composite materials

- Mould preparation, manufacture, and maintenance

- Adherence to validated process cycle/TAKT times

- Maintaining the highest quality standards on all manufactured composites components

- Supporting the Team Leader with prioritizing work and other activities

- Contributing to training and development of other team members

- Ensuring the work area is clean, tidy, and orderly, in line with brand expectations, and maintaining a safe working environment for yourself and others

- Proactively contributing to developing processes to improve quality and efficiency

- Setting an example to production operatives

- Providing support on all processes in the department

- Working to challenging and demanding deadlines

Requirements:

- Previous background in composites manufacturing and composites laminating is essential

- Pre-preg laminating experience, including vacuum bagging, consolidation checks, demoulding parts, and mould cleaning and preparation

- Thorough understanding of composite materials

- Experience and understanding of dealing with quality issues

- Developed proficiency in a range of processes or procedures through job-related training and considerable on-the-job expertise

- Must demonstrate previous experience of using their own initiative and working under minimum supervision

- Ability to read and draw information from engineering drawings/manuals

- Good knowledge base of materials

Personal Attributes:

- Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels

- Able to adopt a professional and mature attitude to work and other people

- Energetic, enthusiastic, and highly self-motivated

- Proactive - takes opportunity to use initiative where possible

- Team player – supports other team members, department strategies, and processes

- Determined – results-focused, driven to do the very best possible

- Flexibility towards overtime when available

- Excellent attendance and time keeping

Benefits:

- Structured career development framework

- 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday

- Annual buy & sell up to five days

- 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

Who We Are:

McLaren Automotive exists to create breathtaking performance road cars. It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks.

## Skills

### Required
- Composites manufacturing
- Composites laminating
- Pre-preg laminating
- Vacuum bagging
- Consolidation checks
- Demoulding parts
- Mould cleaning and preparation
- Composite materials
- Quality control