# 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

You will lead the design and engineering of carbon fibre structures components across all McLaren Automotive vehicle lines and projects.

Your responsibilities include:

- Managing and coordinating technical experts in their field

- Leading the team to deliver systems in line with targets, KPIs, and milestones

- Achieving required standards on design and engineering integrity

- Working closely with vehicle line and body engineering leadership and stakeholders

- Delivering technical specifications, DVPs, and DFMEAs for all systems

- Defining future component and system technical strategies and technologies roadmaps

- Containing quality concerns within programme targets

- Solving and closing quality concerns promptly

- Developing relationships with strategic outsourced resource partners

- Promoting a simultaneous approach to body styling, design, and engineering

- Developing technical competence within the in-house team

- Supporting supplier nomination strategy

You will need:

- 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

- Experience on a wide range of systems and components

- Knowledge of carbon fibre composites manufacturing technologies

- Experience of composite materials testing and FE analysis

- Experience with cost estimation and engineering of carbon composites parts

- Proven ability in delivery project management

- Good level of experience in automotive design and development function

- Relevant experience in lightweight body design and materials technology

- PC literacy and MS Office skills

- Knowledge of DFMEA and GD&T

- Sound commercial and financial awareness

- Degree level in mechanical or automotive engineering

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

- Generous parental leave policies

- Wellbeing initiatives

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## Skills

### Required
- Carbon Fibre Composites
- Body Structures systems
- DFMEA
- GD&T
- FE Analysis
- Cost estimation
- Project management
- Automotive design and development
- Lightweight Body Design
- Materials technology

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