Change Control Engineer

McLaren Automotive Ltd; Woking; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

25 days holiday

Enhanced pension

Discretionary bonus

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Sabbatical option

Wellbeing programme

Job summary

McLaren Automotive is seeking a Change Management professional to coordinate engineering changes across development and series production. You will ensure changes improve quality, protect production plans, and control costs while aligning with definition and PCM processes.

You will work cross-functionally to progress vehicle changes, chair change management meetings, and deliver KPI reporting. A structured, delivery-focused mindset and experience in automotive change processes are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in Product Change Management/Change Control.
• Experience in Product Data and Bill of Materials Management.
• Degree of technical/analytical nature or change control experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and implement engineering changes in line with PCM processes.
• Liaise with departments to progress vehicle changes and block changes.
• Facilitate change management meetings to drive actions.
• Generate progress reports and KPI data for stakeholders.
• Coordinate change control for developments to ensure successful launches.
• Support delivery of block change processes for series development.

Skills

Product Change Management

Change Control

Bill of Materials Management

SAP

MS Office

Stakeholder coordination

Analytical thinking

Education

Degree in technical/analytical field

Tools

SAP

MS Office

Job description

What to Expect

This role is required to coordinate the McLaren Automotive change process, which is applicable on changes to vehicle parts and the associated production processes. The core objective of the role is to manage and implement changes to vehicles in development and in series production that are the best-balanced solution to improving quality, protecting production plans, delivery time and the cost of McLaren Automotive products.

What You'll Do

1. 1. Implement engineering change to the product in line with the PCM processes to ensure accurate and appropriate change to McLaren Automotive products
2. 2. Liaise closely with all departments across the business involved in the product change management process to progress changes for the vehicle project and block changes
3. 3. Facilitate the product change management meetings to drive completion of actions from change stakeholders
4. 4. Generate progress status reports and communicate to the business effectively including preparation of daily, weekly, and monthly KPI’s and investigate all deviations from agreed standards
5. 5. Responsible for coordinating a change control process for vehicle projects in development to ensure successful vehicle launches
6. 6. Responsible for coordination of activities required to deliver the McLaren Automotive Block change process to allow for controlled implementation of change to vehicles in series development
7. 7. Conduct regular process and system reviews to ensure continuous improvement of the product change management process as part of the process ownership

What You'll Bring

Business Knowledge

• Experience of automotive production processes including vehicle manufacturing processes and supply planning (advantageous)
• Experience of vehicle product development life cycles including prototype build phases (advantageous)
• Knowledge of automotive parts and McLaren products advantageous (advantageous)

Essential Functional / Technical Skills

• Experience in Product Change Management/ Change Control
• Experience in Product Data and Bill of Material Management
• Degree of technical/analytical nature required or specific change control experience
• Experience of using SAP advantageous
• Experience of indirect stakeholder and workflow coordination
• IT skills (MS Office)

Personal Attributes / Competencies

• Effective communicator at all working levels
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
• Have structured logical and analytical approach
• Self-motivated to deliver excellence
• Delivery focussed - with demonstrable track record of on-time delivery
• Ability to work within deadlines and under pressure
• Process driven for continuous improvement
• Team player
• Keen/ambitious for personal development and learning
• Capable of representing a world class automotive brand

What We'll Do for You

We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:

• Structured career development framework
• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & 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 & 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.