Quality Engineer - High-Performance Racing

Paddock; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren F1 Team in Woking, United Kingdom, is seeking a Quality Engineer to accelerate quality and performance improvements across the car’s lifecycle, from design through testing and supplier collaboration. You will lead non-conformance resolution, support right-first-time manufacturing, and drive structured problem-solving in a high-performance environment.

Applicants should have extensive quality engineering experience, familiarity with FMEA, metrology, and Six Sigma belts, plus capability in

Qualifications

• Degree in production engineering, mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• Knowledge of FMEA, process mapping, and structured quality improvement techniques.
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt qualification.
• In-depth knowledge of carbon fibre and metallic manufacturing processes, with metrology know-how.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications.

Responsibilities

• Manage and resolve non-conformances, supporting efficient production and driving a right-first-time approach.
• Partner with design, manufacturing, inspection and assembly teams to solve quality issues and capture learning that improves future designs and processes.
• Work with suppliers to assess capability, promote best-practice quality principles and ensure the highest standards of quality and reliability.
• Lead structured problem-solving and containment activities for quality concerns, component failures and trackside car faults, reporting concerns to the appropriate stakeholders and driving resolution.
• Create and deploy inspection control procedures, while supporting the development and auditing of operational work instructions and check sheets.

Skills

Quality engineering

Six Sigma Green Belt

FMEA

Auditing

Problem solving

Education

Production engineering degree

Mechanical engineering degree

Tools

MS Office

Job description

McLaren F1 Team in Woking, United Kingdom, is seeking a Quality Engineer to accelerate quality and performance improvements across the car’s lifecycle, from design through testing and supplier collaboration. You will lead non-conformance resolution, support right-first-time manufacturing, and drive structured problem-solving in a high-performance environment.

Applicants should have extensive quality engineering experience, familiarity with FMEA, metrology, and Six Sigma belts, plus capability in