# Technical Specialist Power Consumption

**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

This role leads simulation, modelling, and verification activities for vehicle power consumption, driving reduction and optimisation initiatives, and owns low-voltage consumer understanding.

**What You'll Do**

- Lead simulation, modelling, and verification of vehicle power consumption performance

- Drive power consumption reduction and optimisation activities across the vehicle

- Maintain technical ownership of all low-voltage consumers within the vehicle

- Manage power budgeting for component specifications using benchmark data and engineering analysis

- Collaborate cross-functionally with systems, electrical, software, hardware, and attribute teams

- Provide clear reporting on consumption status, risks, and opportunities

**What You'll Bring**

- Extensive experience in vehicle power consumption analysis, simulation, modelling, and verification

- Strong technical grounding in low-voltage electrical systems and vehicle consumers

- Practical knowledge of Simulink and System Composer

- Experience defining, managing, and validating power budgets for components and systems

- Ability to drive consumption reduction and optimisation activities across multiple systems and stakeholders

- Degree-qualified in engineering (or equivalent)

**What We'll Do for You**

- 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

- Generous parental leave policies

- Wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice

## Skills

### Required
- Simulink
- System Composer
- vehicle power consumption analysis
- low-voltage electrical systems
- power budgeting

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