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Purpose of Role
- With the Chassis Systems Manager, lead the design and development of steering systems to ensure optimised vehicle performance and delivery of vehicle attributes.
- Work together with Vehicle Dynamics team to identify the targets at vehicle level and deploy them into steering system requirements.
- Work together with NVH and concept teams to meet the requirement of quality and system optimisation
- Work together with steering system suppliers to identify technology and solution suitable to optimize vehicle dynamic performance
- Leadership, planning, monitoring and control of steering system development activities to guarantee project delivery in line with MDP (McLaren Development Process). Directly supporting all Model Year update programmes
- Establish and control system and component, design, release, development and validation plans in association with functional experts and in line with technical risk management processes.
- Establish and control supply chain in association with function group buyers to ensure delivery of components and systems on schedule for all phases of prototype, pilot, pre-production and production build
- Ensure manufacturability and compliance with quality standards of all components and systems within the defined BOM through interface with manufacturing site and suppliers.
- Review and manage steering systems engineering concerns raised in manufacturing and warranty
- Manage and execute design activities where necessary to support production issues and re-engineering tasks
- Ensure lessons learnt from field are correctly captured into documentation for future programmes
- Manage projects to achieve annual cost down targets
- Respond to requests for information or specification change with assessment of risk and cost.
- Control DFM and FMEA as required.
- Preparation and presentation of material to support external and internal project status reviews at various level of the business.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Excellent suspension design and development knowledge
- Capability to predict steering components impact on steering feel and vehicle dynamics through simulation tools (Matlab/Simulink)
- Capability to postprocess measurement data and identify subjective/objective correlation
- Experience with CATIA design environment
- Experience in suspension system release management and problem solving
- Experience of high and niche vehicle (low volume) programmes
- An ability to deliver under pressure with an appetite for measured success
- Experience of automotive design and development advantageous
Personal Attributes
- Natural leadership skills
- Must be both a team player and team builder.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ambitious and self reliant. Intrinsically self motivated.
- Delivery focused, with demonstrable track record of on-time delivery.
- An understanding and awareness of appropriate escalation.
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