Quality Engineer

At McLaren, our mission is to set the standard for high performance in sport. And everyone, in every part of the team, has a role to play. So if you want to test your ideas with the world watching... And measure your progress in milliseconds... And play your part in racing history... You belong here. High performance starts with you.

Purpose of the Role: 

Reliability is essential to our championship winning chances. The appointment of a designated quality engineer to support and develop our supply chain is vital to accelerate and yield improvements at all stages of the cars lifecycle. Working through the initial concept teams including design engineering and the supply chain, the role covers the full supply chain & manufacturing departments, covering a variety of components and manufacturing techniques.  

Role Dimensions:  

Based at MTC reporting to the Director of Quality; the role will involve regular travel to suppliers and test facilities. 

Principal Accountabilities:  

• Work with the design team on all aspects of manufacture to improvement reliability and RFT. 

• Work with suppliers & manufacturing centres to utilise best practice quality principles during manufacture and help solve non-conformances, improve quality and right first-time approach. 

• Improve reliability and RFT, focusing efforts on pre-manufacturing processes to embed quality assurance into the product. 

• Work with the inspection department and manufacturing to resolve non-conformances and harness learning for future reference in design for ease of manufacture. 

• Develop and control Audit database to ensure audit records are retained and NC’s are resolved. 

• Use quality data to drive which suppliers are used in an autonomous and digitally controlled way. 

• Conduct regular external supplier audits. 

• Attend and input into reliability meetings to ensure supplier issues are captured and actioned 

• Work with the inspection department and manufacturing to resolve non-conformances and harness learning for future reference in within the supply chain. 

• Work with the reliability team to resolve faults and harness learning for future reference within the supply chain. 

• Report all quality concerns directly to appropriate stakeholders and lead drive for resolution. 

• Proactively lead problem solving activities for quality concerns and component failures 

• Create and deploy inspection control procedures. 

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:  

• Extensive Quality Engineering Experience  

• Extensive skilled auditor 

• Capable of self-managing time 

• Degree in production / mechanical engineering or equivalent. 

• Six Sigma Green or Black Belt 

• Skilled in problem solving techniques and auditing 

• In depth knowledge of Carbon Fibre and Metallic manufacture 

• Thorough knowledge of metrology techniques and terminology 

• Experience with technical problem solving essential 

• Experience and knowledge in FMEA & process mapping 

• PC literate with good working knowledge of the MS office suite 

• Team player with a proactive approach 

• Ability to work under pressure 

• Good organisational skills with attention to detail 

• Clear & effective communicator 

What McLaren can offer?

We constantly strive to be better tomorrow than we are today. Our ambition is to be the most pioneering and exhilarating racing team in the world, and our collective task is to set the standards for high performance in sport. We show up every day with energy and enthusiasm, ready to play our part.

We encourage and support diversity, equity and inclusion. We will actively promote a culture that values difference and eliminates discrimination in our workplace.

McLaren Racing is based at the iconic McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) near Woking. Our state of the art, sustainable campus offers many facilities including a gym, restaurant and indoor and outdoor break-out areas, as well as direct access to park and common land. The MTC is connected to Woking mainline station via regular shuttle buses, from which London Waterloo is a 30 minute train ride.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including private healthcare, car schemes, life insurance and generous pension contributions.