At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead supplier quality for McLaren's innovative vehicles and solve complex manufacturing challenges.
- Company: Join McLaren Automotive, a leader in performance road cars with a diverse and passionate team.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days holiday, enhanced pension, private medical insurance, and flexible lifestyle benefits.
- Other info: Dynamic role with extensive travel and opportunities for career development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on future vehicles while travelling and collaborating globally.
- Qualifications: Experience in Supplier Quality and a degree in engineering or a related field.
The predicted salary is between 56700 - 69300 £ per year.
This is an opportunity to play a key role in bringing future McLaren vehicles to the road. You'll work with a global network of suppliers responsible for the structural components that sit at the core of every car we build, helping them deliver the quality, performance and innovation that define the McLaren brand. No two days are quite the same. One day you might be supporting a new vehicle programme, the next you'll be on-site with a supplier solving a complex manufacturing challenge. If you enjoy building strong relationships, influencing outcomes and seeing the tangible results of your work in world-class vehicles, you'll feel right at home here. With international travel and exposure to senior stakeholders across the business and supply chain, this role offers the chance to make a genuine impact on the future of McLaren.
What You'll Do
- Take ownership of a global Body in White (BIW) supplier portfolio, supporting components that form the structural foundation of McLaren vehicles.
- Lead supplier sourcing, assessment and qualification activities, ensuring partners can meet McLaren's quality, delivery and performance expectations.
- Drive APQP and PPAP activities from concept through to production, ensuring robust launch readiness and successful programme delivery.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Purchasing and suppliers to improve product manufacturability and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Support new vehicle launches, ensuring suppliers consistently deliver high-quality components on time and to specification.
- Influence supplier leadership teams, manage risk, escalate critical issues and drive rapid problem resolution when challenges arise.
- Monitor supplier performance through audits, governance reviews and KPI management, driving continuous improvement across the supply base.
- Travel extensively across Europe and Asia, building strong supplier relationships and developing long-term capability within the supply chain.
What You'll Bring
- Proven experience within Supplier Quality, Supplier Development or Quality Engineering within an Automotive OEM or Tier 1 environment.
- Strong knowledge of Body in White manufacturing processes, including structural stampings, aluminium castings, extrusions and complex assemblies.
- A solid understanding of automotive supply chains and the challenges involved in delivering complex, high-performance products.
- Expertise in APQP, PPAP, FMEA, SPC, MSA and structured problem-solving methodologies such as 8D and DMAIC.
- The ability to assess manufacturing capability, identify risk early and implement effective mitigation plans.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge supplier organisations at all levels.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively across global, cross-functional teams.
- A degree in an engineering or technical discipline, combined with a passion for quality, continuous improvement and delivering exceptional products.
- A willingness to travel internationally and thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment - up to 70% travel.
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.
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