Head Of Vehicle Line Interiors

McLaren Automotive Ltd; Old Woking; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Structured career development

25 days holiday

Enhanced company pension

Discretionary annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Sabbatical opportunity

Lifestyle discounts

Parental leave

Wellbeing programmes

Job summary

McLaren Automotive seeks a Head Of Vehicle Line to lead the delivery of Vehicle Interiors across all programs, serving as a key link between the Function Group, the Programme team and the executive group. In a matrix organisation, you will ensure accurate planning, robust delivery and clear communication of status from concept to series.

You will manage cross-functional teams, suppliers, and engineering service providers, guiding DFMEA, APQP, and design validation activities to achieve

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of automotive programmes and project delivery.
• Experience with APQP or similar frameworks and DFMEA application.
• Demonstrable commercial acumen and stakeholder management.
• Proven leadership in cross-functional teams and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Vehicle Line delivery for Interiors across programs.
• Define and cascade timing plans and budgets with Function Group and Finance.
• Forecast and manage financials for program activities and supplier spend.
• Act as primary contact to ensure on-time, on-cost, high-quality delivery.
• Lead risk, DFMEA, design validation and lifecycle plans.
• Promote simultaneous engineering with stakeholders and suppliers.

Skills

Project management

Change management

Problem solving

Commercial acumen

Communication

Education

Engineering degree 2:1 or above

Tools

MS Office

SAP

Job description

Reporting to the Body Director the Head Of Vehicle Line is responsible for leading the delivery of Vehicle Interiors across all McLaren Programs, operating as a key link between the Function Group the Programme team & the exec Working within a matrix organisation, they ensure accurate planning and delivery of class-leading products, defining scenarios to support business planning, concept generation and enabling robust delivery of Interior programs via the McLaren Development Process. Direct link and management of any engineering service provider Management and delivery resolution to any supply chain issues with the respective department leader & cross functional team

What You’ll Do

• Working with the VLD & execs, define and cascade the Function Group timing plan and budgets for the project, in collaboration with the Function Group, Finance and other relevant areas of the business.
• Accountable for accurate forecasting and status of financials associated with programme activities and deliverables across internal resource and supplier spend (tooling investment, D&D and external resource) for the given programme.
• Operating as the primary point of contact for the programme, ensure that Function Group programme deliverables are completed to time, cost and quality.
• o Be the functional point of contact from concept to series. o Planning, monitoring and execution of project activities to ensure project delivery. o Manage the Risk Assessment Tool for the programme, ensuring that DFMEA & Tech Specs are completed by the responsible owners as required. o Establish and control system design, release (ETRS), development and validation plans in association with functional experts. o Lead team to deliver KPI's: BOM/Investment/Quality concerns/Build deviations/Engineering release/Headcount.
• Promote, implement and support a Simultaneous Engineering approach where early engagement from all stakeholders is maximized to ensure maximum efficiency and performance, and avoid late changes or delays in the overall process.
• Ensure control and drive efficiency of functional programme delivery through use of available systems (e.g. timesheet outputs) to challenge and ensure appropriate allocation of costs to assigned programme for given function group.
• Ensure effective preparation and attendance at relevant forums, providing clear and effective communication on updates and status from department to programme teams, and vice versa.
• Generate and support key technology and system decisions with business cases and a clear lifecycle approach, ensuring consequences of decisions are understood and managed appropriately.
• Supplier liaison & management.
• o Lead supply chain activities in association with suppliers, buyers, cost engineering, engineering, SQA and logistics to ensure design to cost, supplier nomination and delivery of components and systems on schedule for all phases of prototype, pilot and pre-production.
• Understanding of Product Development processes and tools.
• Project management experience, including agile methodologies.
• Previous experience in a similar role in the Automotive industry (including Automotive suppliers of complex systems).

Essential Functional / Technical Skills

• Engineering degree 2:1 or above.
• Extensive experience of automotive programmes, including project management and system delivery.
• Experience of both high volume and niche volume programs in an OEM or Tier 1 supplier.
• Knowledge of DFMEA and its application in automotive environment.
• Proven project leadership and delivery within an APQP or similar framework.
• Knowledge of Automotive technologies, systems and manufacturing techniques.
• Proven problem solving and change management capability (PPS)
• Demonstrable commercial acumen.
• MS Office and SAP or equivalent software experience.

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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