McLaren

Reporting to the Business Development Manager to deliver new product introduction and CI projects in manufacturing for McLaren Composites Technology Centre. Covering a wide range of projects including groundbreaking technology development, new product Introduction, CAPEX and process development, Technology Road map, TVM projects.

Work within a matrix organization to help plan and deliver world leading products, defining scenarios that support business planning, concept generation and robustly delivering parallel projects via the McLaren Development Process ensuring the team remain on time, on budget. 

• Define and deliver all of McLaren Composites Technology Centre (MCTC) project targets and deliverables, ensuring they are cascaded, communicated, and reported against effectively at every stage of the product delivery to management.
• Generate and support key technology and system decisions with business cases and a clear lifecycle approach. Ensure consequences of decisions are understood and fed back into targets, budgets and plans.
• Create and maintain a High-Level Plan (HLP). Work with Managers, Principals and cross-functional teams to ensure the HLP is consistent with development plan, gateways, sign-off timing deliverables are met when required.
• Deliver projects on time, on budget and to the quality and engineering robustness targets.
• Be the primary point of contact for the Programme & Design Teams. Define and embrace the functional and departmental goals and be the voice of MCTC Projects team.
• Responsible for managing the full budget for the product, including internal and external resources, tooling investment, D&D and BOM cost with support from the Business Development Manager.
• Prepare and Present MDP slides to project gateways communicating the contents delivered.
• Prepare and Present MCTC monthly review slides to MCTC Leadership team communicating each project status.
• Support decision meetings with concise, accurate technical and project information. Ensure consequences of decisions are understood and fed back into targets, budgets and plans.
• Deliver all systems in line with targets, KPI’s and milestones as set by the McLaren Development Process (MDP) and Project management leaders.
• Promote, implement and support a Simultaneous Engineering approach where early engagement from all stakeholders is maximized in order to ensure maximum efficiency and performance and avoid late changes and delays in the overall process.
• With the department managers work closely with support functions like purchasing, supply chain to monitor current supplier performance and develop future supply strategies.

• Engineering degree 2:1 or above.
• Significant experience working within automotive programmes, covering project management, and system delivery (preferably composites).
• Experience both High volume and niche volume programs in an OEM or Tier 1 supplier.
• Knowledge of DFMEA and its application in automotive environment.
• Proven project leadership and delivery within an APQP or similar framework.
• Knowledge of Automotive technologies, systems and manufacturing techniques (preferably composites)
• Experience in problem solving.
• Demonstrable commercial acumen.
• We are looking for an individual with an outstanding passion for high performance sports cars, engineering excellence and creative thinking.
• Articulate ideas to internal customers and team members of all levels
• Ability to tactfully challenge without alienating.
• Ability to use own initiative when working under pressure.
• A team player able to work closely with internal and external network of engineers.
• Flexibility and Adaptability are key.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ambitious and self-reliant.
• Intrinsically self-motivated.
• An excellent communicator with the ability to lead and motivate team.

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