# Lead Engineer - Carbon Fibre Structures

**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

We are seeking a Lead Engineer - Carbon Fibre Structures to join our team at McLaren Automotive in Woking.

You will lead the design and engineering of a specific set of carbon fibre structures components across all McLaren Automotive vehicle lines and projects. Your responsibilities will include ensuring the systems and components you are responsible for are delivered robustly via McLaren Development Process (MDP) together with all applicable attributes; Passive Safety, Weight, NVH and Quality of Design. All areas must be delivered on time and budget.

**Responsibilities:**

- Management and coordination of technical experts in their field (Project Engineers, Design Engineers)

- Leading the team to deliver all systems in line with targets, KPI’s and milestones set by the MDP and Vehicle Line management leaders, on multiple vehicle programmes

- Achieving required standards on Design and Engineering integrity to exceed quality, performance and commercial goals

- Working closely with Vehicle line and Body Engineering leadership and other relevant stakeholders to support the definition and implementation of all goals for all projects/systems under your responsibility

- Achieving the BOM cost target on all systems you are responsible for

- Achieving the Investment Budget - including internal and outsourced labour, tooling costs and supplier or internal D&D investment

- Delivering Technical Specifications, DVPs, DFMEAs for all systems you are responsible of and in line with McLaren and VCA standards

- Defining future component and system technical strategies and associated technologies roadmaps

- Identifying research topics, associated budgets, resource, partners and funding streams, where necessary

- Containing Quality Concerns (QCRs) within programme targets

- Solving/Closing QCRs promptly and in line with McLaren Quality Concern Management system (PPS)

- Developing the relationship, framework and ultimately the capability of your strategic outsourced resource partners

- Promoting, implementing and supporting a Simultaneous approach to Body Styling, Design and Engineering

- Developing a high level of technical competence within the in-house team

- Supporting the supplier nomination strategy

**Requirements:**

- Experience in leadership and influencing of direct and indirect teams

- Experience in an OEM or tier one with a high level of Body Structures systems technical knowledge, particularly in field of Carbon Fibre Composites

- Experience on a wide range of systems and components such as crash structures, monocoques, subframes, and other vehicle structures

- Knowledge of Carbon Fibre composites manufacturing technologies

- Experience of Composite materials destructive and non-destructive testing and FE Analysis

- Experience with cost estimation and engineering of carbon composites parts

- Proven ability in delivery project management within an APQP or similar framework

- Good level of experience in automotive design and development function

- Experience of high volume and niche vehicle (low volume) programmes

- Relevant Experience in Lightweight Body Design and materials technology

- PC literate and at ease with MS Office products

- Knowledge of DFMEA and its application in automotive environment

- Knowledge of GD&T

- Knowledge of Body Engineering Simulation and Analysis tools and processes

- Sound commercial and financial awareness

- Educated to Degree level in Mechanical or Automotive Engineering

**What We Offer:**

- 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 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

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## Skills

### Required
- Carbon Fibre Composites
- Body Structures systems
- Composite materials
- FE Analysis
- Cost estimation
- Project management
- APQP
- Automotive design
- Development function
- Lightweight Body Design
- Materials technology
- DFMEA
- GD&T
- Body Engineering Simulation
- Analysis tools

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