At McLaren Racing, we believe only by chasing performance in everything we do can we give ourselves the best chance of success. Performance on track and in the factory. Performance for our people, our business and our partners. It’s about more than winning. It’s about hitting the highest standards, and then raising the bar again.
Purpose of the Role:
A multi-dimensional role coordinating material flow management in the factory and supply chain, tasks will include kitting, main stores consumables, and the Goods In area – the overall intent is to ensure all operations have what they need to start on time and the factory flows during outlying shifts.
Role Dimensions:
- Ensure that all supported areas of manufacturing and build can begin on time and the shop floor can maintain momentum, ultimately delivering projects to the racetrack on schedule.
- Supplying of pre-prepared kits and raw material to workshops and expediting of shortages to feed in- house and Subcontract operations as guided by JQM
- Minimise downtime of workshops by ensuring operators are never waiting for parts
- As a key liaison between manufacturing and operations planning, ensure all teams are aligned using project status updates
- Work closely with the Planning Team to manage the priority of kitting to projects
- Work closely with the Purchasing Team to maintain the consumable and metallic raw material stock.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Deliver kits in line with the Planning Project priorities to ensure each project starts on time
- Progress chase all kitting shortages with the Planning & Purchasing teams
- Support as required the movement, storage and archiving of Composite Laminating pattern & moulds
- Complete store ops for all finished parts into M1 stores and store or distribute as required
- Work with the F1 Build Team to deliver a smooth flow of finished parts for each event
- Support as required the consumable stores stock with minimum stock reorder points
- Create purchase requests to reorder consumable stock
- Support as required stock control of the factory nuts, bolts & washer stock
- Support as required cut metallic billets to the Machine Shop to meet demand on the Javelin Queues
Organization:
McLaren F1 Team