# Senior Design Engineer - Carbon Fibre Structures - 12 month FTC

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Woking
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

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## Description

As a Senior Design Engineer - Carbon Fibre Structures, you will report to the Design Engineering Manager and work on all aspects of Carbon Fibre Structures system design for future vehicle programmes.

You will work on a wide range of systems and components, such as Carbon Fibre Structures and Monocoques, using lightweight materials and processes like Carbon Fibre (pre-preg, RTM, SMC).

Your responsibilities will include:

- Supporting new platform packaging, early concept and styling feasibility studies, and detailed design

- Representing the department in design reviews and during test and development activities

- Liaising with the design and engineering community, suppliers, manufacturing engineering, and R&D team

- Designing components to meet cost targets while achieving performance attributes and the lowest feasible weight

- Coordinating design work to deliver timely design releases

- Coordinating design activities carried out in-house and at suppliers

- Building support (prototype and production)

- Supporting problem-solving activities

- Developing and specifying GD&T on CAD models or drawings

- Contributing to the continuous improvement and further development of CAD modelling and product definition techniques

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A strong passion for automotive design and development

- A degree in Mechanical or Automotive Engineering or similar

- Sound understanding of mechanical design fundamentals

- Proficiency with CATIA V5

- Experience of high or niche vehicle Body-In-White design would be an advantage

- Good material knowledge, with emphasis on high-performance and lightweight materials

- Good understanding of bolted and bonded mechanical joints design

- Good understanding of GD&T standards

- Understanding of FE analysis techniques to drive structural design and its optimization

- Experience of CATIA V5 CPD or equivalent composites design toolboxes would be beneficial

We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, including:

- 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 two years' service

- Benefits adaptable to your lifestyle

- Generous parental leave policies

- Wellbeing initiatives

## Skills

### Required
- CATIA V5
- Mechanical design fundamentals
- FE analysis techniques
- GD&T standards
- Carbon fibre technology

### Nice to have
- Experience of high or niche vehicle Body-In-White design
- CATIA V5 CPD or equivalent composites design toolboxes
- Knowledge of carbon fibre composites manufacturing technologies
- Knowledge of Aluminium manufacturing technologies

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