Senior Leader, Metallic Production & Precision Manufacturing

Motorsport Network, LLC; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Racing is seeking a Head of Metallic Production to lead our metallic manufacturing engineering and production operations, ensuring safety, capability, capacity, quality, cost and delivery targets are met for Formula 1.

You will shape the future direction of the function, develop an empowered leadership team and bring together the people, technology and investment needed to support current and future car programmes, creating a lasting competitive advantage for McLaren Racing.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience within a complex, high-precision production environment such as motorsport, aerospace or another similarly demanding sector.
• Proven experience of leading leaders and multidisciplinary teams across production and manufacturing engineering.
• Strong knowledge of metallic manufacturing, including turning, milling, multi-axis machining, industrialisation, process engineering, tooling, metrology and design-for-manufacture.
• A track record of converting business and product priorities into practical organisation, workforce, technology, manufacturing footprint and investment plans.
• Strong commercial and operational judgement, with experience of budget ownership, capital investment, make-or-buy decisions, cost optimisation and transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Translate car build, development, wind tunnel and race support priorities into clear operational plans and measurable performance outcomes.
• Strengthen collaboration between design, manufacturing engineering and production to improve industrialisation, design-for-manufacture, process capability and production readiness.
• Improve manufacturing flow, lead times, right-first-time delivery, asset effectiveness and predictability through effective governance and data-led decision-making.
• Own the functional budget and manufacturing roadmap, making informed decisions across labour, tooling, maintenance, subcontracting, automation, digital systems and capital expenditure.
• Establish robust standards for safety, technical risk, process control and business continuity, while sponsoring improvement and technology initiatives that enhance competitiveness and resilience.

Skills

Senior leadership

Leadership of leaders

Metallic manufacturing

Organisation & investment planning

Budget ownership

Job description

McLaren Racing is seeking a Head of Metallic Production to lead our metallic manufacturing engineering and production operations, ensuring safety, capability, capacity, quality, cost and delivery targets are met for Formula 1.

You will shape the future direction of the function, develop an empowered leadership team and bring together the people, technology and investment needed to support current and future car programmes, creating a lasting competitive advantage for McLaren Racing.