Job Title
Development Technician
Ref #
58761
Date posted
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Country
United Kingdom
Location
Woking
Business area
Motorsport
Department
Motorsport
Position level
5 - Supervisory / Professional​ - (L-15)
Working time
Full Time
Contract type
Fixed Term Contract
Salary
£
What to Expect

Working in the motorsport team, this role will play a pivotal role in providing market leading service to our global customer base.

This is a fundamentally key role to managing and enhancing the relationship between McLaren Customer Racing and all our customer racing teams.

What You'll Do
  • Preparation and execution of chassis composite reworks prior to car build as required
  • Build and preparation of McLaren Motorsport cars to the required specification
  • Accountable for build and preparation of the car and respective sub-assemblies
  • Understand and follow detailed work instructions relating to the assembling of motorsport vehicles.
  • Ensure that all build operations on each vehicle are completed to the required quality standards
  • Work as part of a team on the definition and solution of problems that may be affecting the quality, cost or productivity of the vehicles being produced
  • Support the development and launch into production future McLaren Motorsport vehicle platforms and variants
  • Support with the development of vehicle assembly processes for all assembly disciplines
  • Support the team and wider business functions to ensure all quality targets are correctly specified and achieved
  • Support and participate in continuous improvement initiatives
  • Work alongside the Product Design Engineering team in identifying resolutions for product related issues during the pre-production build phases
What You'll Bring
  • Experience of working within a low volume vehicle production / motorsport build environment essential.
  • Experience of composite trimming, grinding, drilling to high standards.
  • Base level understanding of the differences between track based cars and road based vehicles
  • Have value added experience in the field of vehicle manufacturing practices.
  • Taking receipt of guidance and instruction from multiple leadership direction.
  • Flexible approach to work hours to support program targets

Personal attributes:
  • Determination to drive forward the business to ‘Best in Class’ performance standards in line with brand expectations
  • Takes the opportunity to proactively use initiative where appropriate
  • A team player who can support others whilst also getting involved in day to day tasks as necessary
  • Good analytical skills and attention to detail
  • Results focused and driven to achieve successful outcome
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Adhere to the McLaren Values and help grow the Automotive & Motorsport Brand
  • Actively seeks ways to improve their quality of work through constructive feedback or self education
  • Flexibility when working unsociable hours in support of meeting program targets and maintain a flexible approach to working hours
What We'll Do for You
  • 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. 

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