Lead Engineer - Carbon Fibre Structures

### What to Expect
Lead the design and engineering of a specific set of carbon fibre structures components across all McLaren Automotive vehicle lines and projects. 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 to be delivered on time and budget. The scope of the role covers all projects from R&D stage to series production and vehicles in the field.
The Lead Engineer is a true technical leader and expert in his/her area of responsibility. This role will work within a matrix organization with direct report line to the Engineering Manager whilst delivering towards project-based goals set by Vehicle Line management leaders on multiple parallel projects.

What You'll Do

- Management and Coordination of technical experts in their field (Project Engineers, Design Engineers).
- Lead 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.
- Achieve 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 support the definition and implementation of all goals for all projects/systems under your responsibility (i.e. HLP, ETRS, budget, BOM, Spec book)
- Achieve the BOM cost target on all systems you are responsible for.
- Achieve the Investment Budget - including internal and outsourced labour, tooling costs and supplier or internal D&D investment.
- Deliver Technical Specifications, DVPs, DFMEAs for all systems you are responsible of and in line with McLaren and VCA standards.
- Innovation – Define future component and system technical strategies and associated technologies roadmaps. Identify research topics, associated budgets, resource, partners and funding streams, where necessary.
- Contain Quality Concerns [QCRs] within programme targets.
- Solve/Close QCRs promptly and in line with McLaren Quality Concern Management system [PPS] including a robust understanding and dissemination of lesson learnt that are aimed at avoiding problem repetition and continuous improvement.
- Develop the relationship, framework and ultimately the capability of your strategic outsourced resource partners including a clear performance management process.
- Promote, implement and support a Simultaneous approach to Body Styling, Design and Engineering where early engagement from all stakeholders is maximised to avoid late changes and delays in the overall process. This is including internal stakeholders like Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, other Vehicle Engineering teams, Service/After sales, Marketing, etc. and external stakeholders like suppliers, outsourced resource partners, etc.
- Develop a high level of technical competence within the in-house team to provide a significant and immediate DFM support to the design process without necessarily relying on suppliers
- Support the supplier nomination strategy to deliver prompt and accurate Technical Specifications and DFM input into the design process to achieve RFT releases and to avoid styling process delays.

What You'll Bring

- Experience in leadership and influencing of direct and indirect teams
- Experienced 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
Pre-preg and Autoclave RTM (High/Low pressure, VARTM) Press Moulding (CSMC, SMC, fast cure Prepreg) Hand layup, press forming, braiding, filament winding
- 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'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

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