Manufacturing Systems Technical Lead

McLaren Automotive Ltd; Woking; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Enhanced company pension

Discretionary annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Sabbatical after two years

Wellbeing initiatives

Discounted shopping

Job summary

McLaren Automotive Ltd seeks an experienced MES/IT administrator to support manufacturing execution and quality systems in a digitised factory environment. You will maintain DELMIA Apriso, 3DEXPERIENCE interfaces and SAP-integrated production interfaces, ensuring availability and secure operation across OT/IT boundaries.

You will manage system and configuration across development, test and production, implement controlled changes with rollback plans, and resolve incidents with vendor escalation

Qualifications

• Solid grounding in IT service management and ITIL-aligned incident/change management.
• Experience with manufacturing integration and ISA-95 data flows.
• Practical troubleshooting using SQL, logs, monitoring tools, Windows and Linux servers.
• Exposure to MES/MOM systems (DELMIA Apriso) and interfaces to ERP systems.
• Familiarity with security best practices and ISA-99 / IEC 62443 zoning.

Responsibilities

• Administer DELMIA Apriso MOM solutions and interfaces to 3DEXPERIENCE, SAP and OT integrations.
• Maintain system health across environments, releases and controlled changes in production.
• Operate within ITIL-aligned service management processes for incidents, problems, changes and releases.
• Work within ISA-95, Purdue-model OT/IT boundaries to ensure availability, integrity and safe operation.
• Perform system, environment and configuration management across development, test and production.
• Plan and execute controlled changes with rollback plans and keep CMDB accurate.
• Triage, diagnose and resolve incidents and service requests; escalate to vendors when needed.
• Plan and execute MES/MOM and interface releases with minimal disruption to production.
• Administer interfaces and data flows between MES, ERP and data platform with ISA-95 boundaries.

Job description

What to Expect

Administer, maintain and support the manufacturing execution and quality systems that run McLaren's digitised factories - keeping DELMIA Apriso, 3DEXPERIENCE Interfaces, SAP-integrated production interfaces and associated shop-floor applications available, secure, correctly configured and performing. Provide day-to-day operational administration, configuration control and incident resolution across the Manufacturing Systems estate, working within ISA-95 integration boundaries and Purdue-model OT/IT segmentation.

• Administer DELMIA Apriso MOM solution and Interfaces to 3DEXPERIENCE, SAP and associated manufacturing OT integrations.
• Maintain system health across environments, releases and controlled change in a production-critical setting.
• Operate within ITIL-aligned service management processes, supporting incident, problem, change, configuration and release management.
• Work within ISA-95, Purdue-model and OT/IT security boundaries to ensure availability, integrity and safe operation of manufacturing systems.

What You'll Do

• Perform system, environment and configuration management across development, test and production, including process, screen and workflow configuration in Apriso.
• Assess, schedule and implement controlled changes with appropriate rollback plans, keeping configuration and CMDB records accurate.
• Triage, diagnose and resolve incidents and service requests; manage problems to root cause and elevate to vendors where required.
• Plan and execute releases and deployments of MES/MOM and interface changes with minimal disruption to production operations.
• Administer interfaces and data flows between MES, ERP and the data platform, respecting ISA-95 level boundaries and monitoring integration jobs.
• Apply security, access control and patching in line with OT/IT policy, least privilege principles and ISA-99 / IEC 62443 zoning.
• Maintain runbooks, knowledge articles and administration documentation to support audit readiness and operational resilience.

What You'll Bring

• Solid grounding in application support, environment management, configuration management, change management and incident processes in an ITIL-aligned environment.
• Understanding of manufacturing integration, including interfaces, batch jobs, message queues and ISA-95 data flows.
• Practical troubleshooting capability using SQL, application and integration logs, monitoring tooling, and Windows and Linux server environments.
• Exposure to 3DEXPERIENCE, SAP, Microsoft Azure, Fabric, unified namespace configuration, OPC UA or MQTT would be advantageous.
• Basic knowledge on development technologies (c#,Java Script, HTML, CSS) are desirable
• ITIL Foundation certification / awareness is desirable.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-availability manufacturing environment with strong attention to risk, security and operational continuity.

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.