What to Expect
We are recruiting for a Senior Programme Quality Engineer to join our fantastic Programme Quality team in Woking. As the Senior Programme Quality Engineer, you will engage at the very front end of the conceptual design process and play an integral role within the project team as one of the lead Quality representatives, to influence the style as well as product to support the business and product quality objectives.
The collation and understanding of current product issues sourced from both internal departmental systems and external field sensors is central to this role to ensure continuous product improvement. This is a challenging area with responsibilities ranging from functional resource management, project gateways, initial product target setting, all the way through to vehicle launch.
This is a challenging area of the business that operates at all levels of leadership from shop floor to executive director, across multiple projects at any given time and works cross functionally to resolve issues from concept through to launch. This role requires someone with a high level of interpersonal and communication skills with a key attribute being the ability to challenge, persuade, convince, and guide with assertion, while building important relationships at all levels both internally and externally across the business.
What You'll DoWhat You'll Bring
- A degree in mechanical / automotive engineering or similar (2:1 or above) or equivalent experience in a similar role.
- Experience of low volume, high value automotive products
- An understanding/appreciation of customer quality expectations.
- Experience of low volume launch activities.
- Experience/knowledge of high-performance vehicle dynamics, or an interest to learn.
- Experience of engineering design, styling design, launch readiness and manufacturing process reviews.
- Knowledge of faults management control and KPI delivery.
- Knowledge of budget planning and review meetings.
- Experience of reporting at exec director level meetings.
- Project Management experience.
- 8D or Practical Problem Solving (PPS).
- Basic understanding of SPC, statistics and process capabilities.
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 4x your basic salary
- 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 including market leading maternity leave
- Tax efficient nursery scheme benefit
- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
- Friends and family day
- Opportunities to experience our fantastic cars
Qualifying criteria applies
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.