Expert Technologist - Motorsport & Fuels

Overview

Full time
Expert Technologist - Motorsport & Future Fuels
United Kingdom, Reading
Job category:
Research & Technology
Experience level:
Senior

Travel required:

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role
Relocation available:
This role is not eligible for relocation

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Castrol Technology Team, working at the forefront of advanced motor sport fuels while inputting a strategic view on global fuel technology for the wider Castrol business. Based within the Motorsport Technology Team, you will provide expert technical knowledge on next-generation, high-performance fuels and components for Castrol and its motor sport partners. You will also inform the business on regional fuel specifications and deliver strategic insights on how evolving fuel regulations, legislations, and technologies may influence and impact future powertrain and lubricant solutions, helping both our internal participants and external partners achieve their goals.

You will combine experienced guidance for motor sport fuel programmes with strategic responsibilities for informing the Castrol lubricants business. Your primary focus will be to shape the future strategy and define the optionality for motor sport fuels by advancing renewable raw-material availability and sourcing, seeing opportunities for implementation of new data tools, initiating R&D programmes, and providing overall technical knowledge. Acting as a trusted subject matter authority to the team’s OEM Project Leaders, you will guide innovation and enable future capabilities across the motor sport fuel portfolio.

The role requires close collaboration with the Senior Advisor for Automotive Technology and the wider Castrol Technology Team to ensure global fuel standards and their future evolution are fully considered when forming near and long-term strategies. You will collaborate extensively with a broad range of internal and external partners.

• Guide future motor sport fuel formulation strategy and optionality grounded on current and emerging fuel technology and regulatory requirements.
• Source, investigate and develop fuel components for the motor sport development team, targeting long-term performance opportunities aligned to motor sport regulations. Building and maintaining relationships with suppliers of novel renewable fuel components.
• Display leadership behaviours, deputising for the Team Leader when required, managing tasks such as budgeting and forecasting, and driving the team to innovate through new R&D initiatives.
• Provide expert knowledge on novel combustion technology and motor sport fuel formulation to meet and exceed Castrol’s partner’s performance expectations.
• Find opportunities to apply advanced computational modelling techniques and lead projects to implement them.
• Oversee operational delivery to legacy motor sport partners, including blending, product approval, and timely dispatch, ensuring consistent quality and compliance with established standards.
• Coach and mentor technologists, providing technical leadership to colleagues across the Motorsport Technology Team.
• Ensure the continued technical support and operational delivery of specialised Castrol fuel solutions for key non-racing partners, including overseeing blending, product validation, and timely dispatch to maintain quality, compliance, and performance standards.
• Represent Castrol in technical and regulatory forums and conferences related to fuel technology.
• Assess and communicate the impact that evolving global fuel technology trends, regulatory changes, sustainability initiatives, and OEM developments will have on propulsion and lubricant technology and provide insights to lubricant product development projects and OEM partnerships.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in creation of supply agreements / contracts and aligning technical guidance with colleagues to focus on research and development, product stewardship, legal, and marketing.

• Degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or related technical field, with a Masters/PhD qualification or additional relevant industry…