Purpose of Role
Working in the motorsport team, this role will play a pivotal role in providing market leading service to our global customer base.
This is a key role to managing and enhancing the relationship between McLaren Motorsport and our key customer bases.
Principal Accountabilities
- Lead the Build and preparation of McLaren Motorsport cars to the required specification within the relevant build bay
- Accountable for build and preparation of the car and respective sub assemblies
- Point of contact for build team members for any process, parts, training related issues
- Primary point of contact for the Production Manager within the relevant build bay
- Provide build status feedback to the Production Manager during production start up
- Work closely with logistics to establish & maintain status of parts supply, escalating issues to the Production Manager where build impact occurs
- Understand and follow detailed work instructions relating to the construction, painting or assembling of vehicles
- Ensure that all station operations on each vehicle are completed to the required quality standard
- 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
- Support the development and launch into production future McLaren Motorsport vehicle platforms and variants
- Support with the development of vehicle assembly processes for all assembly disciplines
- Support the team and wider business functions to ensure all quality targets are correctly specified and achieved
- Support and participate in continuous improvement initiatives with the Production Manager & Manufacturing Engineering
- Work alongside the Product Design Engineering team in identifying resolutions for product related issues during the digital and prototype development phases
- Understand & demonstrate a broad knowledge of the build process to provide training & assist when issues arise
- Provide support in the maintenance & preparation of fleet vehicles pre & post events to ensure vehicle integrity is maintained at all times
- Provide support in the maintenance & preparation of Development vehicles pre & post tests to ensure vehicle integrity is maintained at all times
- Take an active role in the maintenance and ordering of workshop consumables to ensure workshop activities are not impacted
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Experience of working within a low volume vehicle production / motorsport build environment essential
- 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 direction.
- Flexible approach to work hours to support program targets
- Willingness to travel and support Global customers as required
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
- 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 outcome
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Adhere to the McLaren Values and help grow the Automotive & 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