Lead Motorsport Technician in Woking

Leading a team of technicians within an allocated build bay, the Lead Technician will be responsible for the delivery of new vehicles in line with the business agreed build plan and to the expected McLaren quality standards.

What You’ll Do

• Take an active role in the maintenance of all workshop equipment and tooling to ensure all workshop activities are not impacted.
• Take an active role in the maintenance and ordering of workshop consumables to ensure workshop activities are not impacted.
• Understand and demonstrate a broad knowledge of the build process to provide training and assist when issues arise.
• Work alongside the Product Design Engineering team in identifying resolutions for product related issues during the digital and prototype development phases.
• Support and participate in continuous improvement initiatives with the Production Manager and Manufacturing Engineering.
• Support the team and wider business functions to ensure all quality targets are correctly specified and achieved.
• Support with the development of vehicle assembly processes for all assembly disciplines.
• Support the development and launch into production future McLaren Motorsport vehicle platforms and variants.
• 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.
• Ensure that all station operations on each vehicle are completed to the required quality standard.
• Understand and follow detailed work instructions relating to the modification or assembling of vehicles.
• Work closely with logistics to establish and maintain status of parts supply per vehicle build, escalating issues to the Production Manager where build impact occurs.
• Provide build status feedback to the Production Manager during production start up.
• Be the primary point of contact for the Production Manager within the relevant build bay.
• Be the point of contact for build team members for any process, parts, training related issues.
• Accountable for build and preparation of the car and respective sub-assemblies.
• Lead the build and preparation of McLaren Motorsport cars to the required specification within the relevant build bay.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience of working within a low volume vehicle production/motorsport build environment is desired.
• Experience of composite trimming, grinding, and drilling to high standards.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
• Have value added experience in the field of production vehicle manufacturing.
• Taking receipt of guidance and instruction from multiple leadership directions.
• Flexible approach to work hours to support program targets.
• Excellent leadership and organisational skills.
• Experience in leading and organising small teams to meet target driven deadlines.

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 outcomes.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Adhere to the McLaren Values and help grow the Automotive and Motorsport Brand.
• Actively seeks ways to improve their quality of work through constructive feedback or self-education.
• Be prepared to coach and develop peer skill sets.
• Lead by example, influence all members of the workshop team and ensure they are fully motivated.
• 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

• We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday.
• Annual buy and 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 and 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.