# Manufacturing Engineer - CNC

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

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## Description

To drive continuous improvement in quality, cost efficiency, cycle time, and equipment availability across all CNC machining processes at the McLaren Composite Technology Centre.

As a Manufacturing Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

- Leading the introduction of new composites products, processes, machinery, and tooling into production.

- Providing feedback to the design team to ensure robust design for manufacture of composite parts.

- Acting as the primary Engineering contact for Production and Maintenance teams.

- Leading initiatives to improve CNC machining processes, focusing on reducing cycle time and scrap, enhancing equipment availability, and supporting product repairs and introductions.

- Collecting, analysing, and interpreting complex process data to deepen process understanding and inform technical development.

- Facilitating Practical Problem-Solving (PPS) activities to resolve quality issues within defined timeframes.

- Maintaining and updating production process documentation, including process flows, PFMEAs, and control plans.

- Supporting the creation and revision of production documents such as standard operating procedures, work instructions, and product standards.

- Managing engineering changes for existing production parts.

- Presenting project status updates and key performance indicators (KPIs) to stakeholders.

You will need:

- CNC programming experience.

- Proficiency with at least 1 CAM package.

- Experience of machining composites is advantageous.

- Proven experience in a manufacturing engineering role, ideally within the composites manufacturing sector.

- Familiarity with engineering CAPEX procurement is advantageous.

- Proficient in structured problem-solving methodologies (e.g., 8D, PPS).

- Demonstrated ability to lead process improvement projects using approaches such as DMAIC.

- Skilled in handling and analysing large datasets.

- Capable of establishing accurate and relevant data collection systems.

- Knowledge of PFMEA reviews and control plan updates is beneficial.

- Strong presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex issues clearly.

- Familiarity with structured change management systems.

- Excellent IT proficiency.

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.

## Skills

### Required
- CNC programming
- CAM package
- structured problem-solving methodologies
- data analysis
- presentation skills

### Nice to have
- machining composites
- engineering CAPEX procurement
- PFMEA reviews

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