Head of Workplace, Infrastructure and Facilities

Head of Workplace, Infrastructure and Facilities

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At McLaren, our mission is to set the standard for high performance in sport. Everyone, in every part of the team, has a role to play. If you want to test your ideas with the world watching, measure your progress in milliseconds, and play your part in racing history, you belong here. High performance starts with you.

The Head of Workplace Infrastructure & Facilities is responsible for the strategic oversight, operational management, and continuous optimisation of McLaren Racing’s physical assets, work spaces, and infrastructure systems. This role will develop, manage, and deliver infrastructure and facilities change programmes across all of our sites, focusing on improving efficiency, quality, reliability, minimising disruption and striving for workplace excellence.

Leading a team of specialist professionals, this role will ensure proper maintenance of our critical infrastructure, machinery and equipment to ensure continuous operations for our manufacturing and testing teams, and general functions across our sites. They will manage property, vendor relationships, and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations, while representing and developing the organization’s Facilities Management requirements.

The Head of Workplace Infrastructure and Facilities will lead a team whose mission is the successful delivery of the strategic agenda but also the operational, day‑to‑day “business as usual” work. You will work with, and be accountable to, the Director of Procurement.

This role will work closely with the Programme Management Office for programmes and major projects, and the Procurement team to manage OEM servicing, maintenance and contractors, and across the wider team to understand the business needs and deliver exceptional service to our stakeholders.

Your primary role will be to manage the day‑to‑day activity and priorities of the team, map out and drive the facilities and workplace excellence plan across all our race facilities, to manage the delivery of key initiatives and ensure cross‑functional alignment, coordination and collaboration with stakeholders across the business.

Flexibility in working hours will be required as well as some domestic and international travel from time to time.

• Responsibility for the development and delivery of an effective and efficient facilities services management and maintenance plan, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Working with the procurement team to ensure performance and continuous review of contracted services ensuring they deliver the best standards and meet our service level agreements.
• Oversight and management of onsite capacity, space utilisation and capacity planning.
• Involvement in business continuity, disaster recovery planning alongside MRL and Group colleagues.
• Ensuring the facilities that we provide have a minimal environmental impact and maximise social and local benefit.
• Actively working with the Production, Health & Safety and Sustainability teams to influence our waste management strategy beyond legal and regulatory compliance.
• Oversee cap‑ex budget, contract management and facilities programmes, both business‑as‑usual and new.
• Lead and collaborate in multi‑disciplinary and cross‑functional project teams to deliver specific projects and programmes of activities, bringing together the skills and experience needed to deliver a wide range of shared initiatives and objectives.
• Collaboration with McLaren Group, representing McLaren Racing interests in relation to all onsite facilities and services including car parking, restaurant/catering and maintenance.
• Ensure effective allocation of expenditure for reactive repairs and maintenance, within budget and timescales.
• Champion and drive operational excellence and organise a regular housekeeping programme to maintain the premises to the highest possible standards, including a longer‑term maintenance plan.
• Develop a capital expenditure plan that will be used to prioritise and approve all capital Infrastructure and…