Passive Safety Senior Engineer

McLaren Racing; Old Woking; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Job summary

McLaren Automotive is seeking a Passive Safety Senior Engineer to identify and validate passive safety solutions for minor future McLaren road vehicles. You will lead the crash-test program, set targets, and coordinate cross-functional reviews to ensure compliance with occupant, pedestrian and structural safety requirements.

You will manage testing budgets and supplier engagements, produce status updates for gateways, and drive CAE activities to validate new concepts while preserving design

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Passive Safety engineering, including testing, CAE or component design.
• Understanding of occupant injuries criteria and restraint systems.
• Knowledge of vehicle crashworthiness and regulatory standards.
• Experience leading cross-functional reviews and planning crash-test programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead passive safety design solutions to meet legal and internal crash targets.
• Plan and execute crash testing programs, including supplier and budget management.
• Prepare status slides for gateways and report to stakeholders.
• Coordinate Passive Safety CAE activities and ensure test material represents design intent.
• Write test specifications for passive safety tests and conduct full vehicle crash tests.
• Raise engineering issue documentation if concerns arise during activities.

Skills

Restraint systems

Crashworthiness

Regulatory standards

Passive Safety engineering

Job description

The role of the Passive Safety Senior Engineer is to find and validate passive safety design solutions on a minor future McLaren road vehicles, for all world regions. This role reports to a Passive Safety lead Engineer. The individual will receive occasional supervision and assistance from other members of the team who are experts in their field. The senior engineer is accountable for achieving acceptable Passive Safety performance in vehicle crash tests and vehicle PS performance for a derivative or facelift vehicle programme. The Senior engineer sets crash targets for the programme and then leads solutions to the design of componentry and systems which result in a vehicle that is capable of achieving legal and internal standards for occupant, pedestrian and structural requirements in crash events. The senior engineer is then responsible for planning and executing the crash testing programme, including nomination and management of supplier and budgets, and for preparing and executing the tests. What You'll Do

• Responsible for successful achievement of Passive Safety attribute, including relevant legislation for a minor programme
• Single point of contact for programme leadership and meetings for a minor programme. If an issue is escalated to programme significance, then support will be available from the Lead Passive Safety Engineer.
• Report and present to stakeholders, such as programme management and chief engineer, when called upon in attribute meetings or programme meetings.
• Prepare status slides for program gateways
• Lead cross functional review to achieve passive safety targets when shortfall is identified
• Assist in co-ordinating Passive Safety CAE activities for performance status
• Maintain passive safety test timing plan and report through programme DVP.
• Investigate and nominate test house. Raise PO for test program.
• Perform proof-of-concept tests where required to prove out novel or risky designs.
• Ensure vehicles and other test material used is representative of design intent, fit for testing and agreed with stakeholders.
• Organise workshop technician support to ensure that all vehicle re-builds, parts and teardowns are done to high standards.
• Write test specifications for all Passive Safety tests related to this minor Passive Safety Sub-attribute.
• Conduct passive safety testing as required by vehicle program (including full vehicle crash testing, sub-system and component tests).
• Perform post-analysis of Passive Safety test data for adherence to target and advise on any departure from expected performance.
• Raise engineering issue documentation (QCRs) if concerns are found during the course of this activity.
• Support running changes (Series department) and personalisation projects (MSO department) with advice on Passive Safety implications, when requested by these departments

What You'll Bring

• Technical knowledge in restraint system and understanding of occupant injuries criteria
• Understanding of vehicle crashworthiness
• Knowledge to regulatory standards
• Good amount of experience of Passive Safety engineering is required, beyond this any time working in Passive Safety testing, CAE or component design would be an advantage. No restraints. No limitations. We don't simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.

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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