Technical Operations Manager

### What to Expect
To lead all AV technical service delivery at the McLaren Technology Centre and other facilities used by the McLaren Group.

What You'll Do

- Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of high-profile staff, commercial, partner, executive and VIP events and activities.
- Translate stakeholder requirements into safe, reliable and effective technical solutions, from initial planning through to live delivery and close-out.
- Manage and coordinate internal technical resources, specialist suppliers and contractors to ensure consistently high standards of delivery.
- Take ownership of technical readiness, infrastructure, operational resilience and issue resolution across live production environments.
- Ensure all technical operations are delivered in accordance with health & safety requirements, appropriate budgets, operational standards and best practice.
- Indirect management of regular contractors + manage single team member of team members and to ensure they follow the same high standards set by the business.

What You'll Bring

- Extensive experience leading technical operations, AV, broadcast and live production for high-profile events and business-critical activities.
- Strong AV/IT engineering and technical design expertise, covering complex integrated systems, conferencing, streaming and production infrastructure.
- Proven ability to translate senior stakeholder requirements into practical technical solutions, from initial concept through to successful live delivery. Ability to talk to key stakeholders and explain McLaren technical offerings.
- Demonstrable experience managing suppliers, contractors, budgets, resources and infrastructure, often within tight deadlines and demanding operational environments.
- Strong technical leadership, commercial awareness and operational judgement, with responsibility for safety, resilience, quality and successful end-to-end delivery.
- Strong and proven knowledge of Video processing fundamentals, Dataton Watchout, Qlab, Premier pro, Photoshop, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and audio processing equipment essential.
- Full driving licence required
- MEWP licence would be an advantage
- Calm, credible and decisive under pressure, with a strong sense of ownership.
- Proactive, organized and comfortable managing multiple concurrent priorities
- Clear communicator with excellent attention to detail and the confidence to work independently or lead multi-disciplinary teams.
- Committed to continuous improvement, operational resilience and consistently high delivery standards.

### What We'll Do for You
We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:
- Structured career development framework
- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
- 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

### Who Are We?
No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.
It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks.
McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey.