Senior Programme Quality Engineer

Reporting to the ‘Programme Quality Manager’, the role of ‘Senior Programme Quality Engineer’ is to represent the “voice of quality” within vehicle programmes and to support delivery of Quality owned activities. The ‘Senior Programme Quality Engineer’ engages at the very front end of the conceptual design process and plays an integral role within the vehicle programme team to influence the overall styling, technical, and manufacturing activities until the handover to series is complete.

• Alongside the Programme Quality Manager and Faults Management Engineer, the ‘Senior Programme Quality Engineer’ is responsible for managing all programme quality activities across the respective vehicle programmes.
• Leading the delivery of all internal customer quality KPI’s (concern reporting, customer product audit, BIW measurement, etc.)
• Must be able to work pragmatically in a team to find ways forward, while maintaining a clear focus on quality.
• Continuous improvement of known quality issues through the new model development process.

This is a challenging area of the business that operates at all levels of management from shop floor to executive director, across multiple projects at any given time and works cross functionally to resolve issues from concept through to launch. This role requires someone with a high level of interpersonal and communication skills that can persuade, guide and lead with assertion, while building important relationships at all levels both internally and externally across the business.

• Lead the delivery of all relevant McLaren Development Process quality gateway deliverables in relation to the allocated programme.
• Lead the governance of all quality control aspects, including the development of the project quality control plan.
• Responsible to ensure that all ‘quality’ related costs are provisioned with a Value To Complete (VTC) budget line for each related item.
• Lead the Quality Concern Avoidance (QCA) activity to ensure robust prevention of repeat critical quality issues.
• Support the prioritisation of issues to ensure the business can make informed decisions when launching vehicle programmes.
• Responsible for ensuring that all quality targets are defined in accordance with customer product audit and Fault Per Vehicle (FPV).
• Support design and styling meetings, to ensure direction set is Designed for Quality (DFQ).
• Support gap & flush and dimensional variation analysis reviews to ensure built in, achievable quality.
• Create, issue, and track all programme quality reporting against McLaren Development Process deliverables.
• Responsible to lead the quality risk assessment against the programme.

• Support all technical problem allocations and steering, supported by the ‘Programme Quality Manager’ and ‘Fault Management Engineer’ to ensure prioritisation of all issues and risk filters are applied correctly.
• Support the problem-solving process.
• Steering & escalation of priority programme concerns as highlighted via the faults management process.

• Experience of low volume, high value automotive products.
• An understanding/appreciation of customer quality expectations.
• Experience of low volume launch activities, reviews and readiness preparation.
• Engineering design reviews.
• Manufacturing process reviews.
• Faults management control and KPi delivery.
• Budget planning and review meetings.
• Experience of business and process audits.
• An understanding of new product release and change management process.

• 8D or Practical Problem Solving (PPS).
• Methodical approach to work with strong analytical skills.
• Good problem-solving ability.
• Quality target…