Vehicle Line Manager - Chassis

Vehicle Line Manager - Chassis Ref #59569

Date posted

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Country United Kingdom Location Woking Business  area Product Development

Department PD - CHASSISPosition level4 - Management / Technical Expert (L-18)
Working time

Full Time Contract type

Permanent

Working pattern9am - 6pm Monday to Friday Salary.

What to Expect The Vehicle Line Manager has overall responsibility for delivering the complete Chassis systems content systems for full vehicle programmes, delivering content at committed timing, budget and quality.

The role covers Chassis systems and components including suspension layout, wishbones, uprights, bearings, wheels, brakes, steering, active aerodynamics, springs, suspension systems and associated software.

What You'll DoDefine and deliver all Chassis project targets and deliverables, ensuring they are cascaded, communicated, and reported against effectively at every stage of the vehicle programme to management.– Generate and support key technology and system decisions with business cases and a clear lifecycle approach. Ensure consequences of decisions are understood and fed back into targets, budgets and plans.– Create and maintain a Chassis High Level Plan (HLP).

Work with Chassis Managers, Principals and cross-functional teams to ensure the CVT HLP is consistent with development plan, gateways, sign-off timing deliverables are met when required.– Deliver projects on time, on budget and to the quality and engineering robustness targets.– Be the primary point of contact for the Programme. Define and embrace the functional and departmental goals and be the voice of the Chassis Function Group.–

Responsible for managing the full budget for the Vehicle Line across the Chassis department, including internal and external resources, tooling investment, D&D and BOM cost with support from Vehicle Programme Manager.– Prepare and Present Chassis MDP slides to project gateways communicating the contents delivered by CVT Managers– Together with Chassis Managers and Principals, represent the Chassis team for the Finance, Project and Attribute meetings and report back to the Chassis department.–

Support decision meetings with concise, accurate technical and project information. Ensure consequences of decisions are understood and fed back into targets, budgets and plans.– Manage design release process through ETRS for the whole Chassis Engineering group for the vehicle programme.– Deliver all systems in line with targets, KPI’s and milestones as set by the McLaren Development Process (MDP) and Project management leaders.–

Generate and maintain the Risk Assessment Tool (RAT) for Chassis and ensure DFMEA’s and DVP’s are completed as per MDP requirements.– Promote, implement and support a Simultaneous Engineering approach where early engagement from all stakeholders is maximized in order to ensure maximum efficiency and performance and avoid late changes and delays in the overall process.– With the department managers work closely with support functions like purchasing, project and supply chain team to monitor current supplier performance and develop future supply strategies.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCWhat You'll Bring Essential Functional / Technical

Skills:

– Engineering degree 2:1 or above.– Significant experience working within automotive programmes, covering project management, and system delivery (preferably Chassis systems).– Experience both High volume and niche volume programs in an OEM or Tier 1 supplier.– Knowledge of DFMEA and its application in automotive environment.– Proven project leadership and delivery within an APQP or similar framework.– Knowledge of Automotive technologies, systems and manufacturing techniques.–

Experience in problem solving.–…