Senior Quality Engineer - Performance in Surrey, Woking

Job Title Senior Programme Quality Engineer Quality Technical Quality Full Time Contract type Permanent 9am - 6pm Monday to Friday Reporting to the 'Programme Quality Manager', the role of 'Senior Programme Quality Engineer' is to represent the "voice of quality" within vehicle programmes and to support delivery of Quality owned activities. The 'Senior Programme Quality Engineer' engages at the very front end of the conceptual design process and plays an integral role within the vehicle programme team to influence the overall styling, technical, and manufacturing activities until the handover to series is complete. Alongside the Programme Quality Manager and Faults Management Engineer, the 'Senior Programme Quality Engineer' is responsible for managing all programme quality activities across the respective vehicle programmes. Leading the delivery of all internal customer quality KPI's (concern reporting, customer product audit, BIW measurement, etc.)Must be able to work pragmatically in a team to find ways forward, while maintaining a clear focus on quality. Continuous improvement of known quality issues through the new model development process. This is a challenging area of the business that operates at all levels of management 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 that can persuade, guide and lead with assertion, while building important relationships at all levels both internally and externally across the business. Programme Quality ManagementLead the delivery of all relevant McLaren Development Process quality gateway deliverables in relation to the allocated programme. Lead the governance of all quality control aspects, including the development of the project quality control plan. Responsible to ensure that all 'quality' related costs are provisioned with a Value To Complete (VTC) budget line for each related item. Lead the Quality Concern Avoidance (QCA) activity to ensure robust prevention of repeat critical quality issues. Responsible for ensuring that all quality targets are defined in accordance with customer product audit and Fault Per Vehicle (FPV).Support design and styling meetings, to ensure direction set is Designed for Quality (DFQ).Support gap & flush and dimensional variation analysis reviews to ensure built in, achievable quality. Create, issue, and track all programme quality reporting against McLaren Development Process deliverables. Responsible to lead the quality risk assessment against the programme. Fault ManagementSupport all technical problem allocations and steering, supported by the 'Programme Quality Manager' and 'Fault Management Engineer' to ensure prioritisation of all issues and risk filters are applied correctly. Business KnowledgeExperience of low volume, high value automotive products. An understanding/appreciation of customer quality expectations. Engineering design reviews. Budget planning and review meetings. Quality target setting experience. Quality focused - ideally with demonstrated experience of automotive new model development. Take ownership of the solutions and champion the change until implementation and full adoption. We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes: Structured career development framework25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five daysEnhanced company pension schemeDiscretionary annual bonus awardPrivate medical insurance and health cash planLife assurance benefitAbility to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years' serviceBenefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shoppingGenerous parental leave policiesA range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars. It takes a community to do what we do. 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.