At McLaren, our mission is to set the standard for high performance in sport. And everyone, in every part of the team, has a role to play. So if you want to test your ideas with the world watching... And measure your progress in milliseconds... And play your part in racing history... You belong here. High performance starts with you.
Purpose of the role
An exciting opportunity for a 1-year internship within McLaren Racing Formula One team. The role will be based with Operations with the focus being Continuous Improvement.
Working collaboratively between all areas of McLaren Operations, you will support with analysing and evolving operational continuous improvement; creating, developing then implementing operational improvement projects as directed. Contribute to, Lead, and deliver complete improvement projects at our manufacturing sites and to rectify risk, reliability, and performance hurdles. Consistently assessing and reporting on time, cost, and future continuous improvement projects.
Role dimensions
Reporting to the Reliability & Continuous Improvement Lead, you will develop and maintain operational procedures and methods using digital tools within the MTC and Trackside Teams.
Develop new methods and practices to improve operational efficiency, process flow and control within MTC and into trackside.
Principal accountabilities
- Co-ordinate, facilitate and deliver improvement projects within the F1 Operations
- Deliver consistent results to ensure efficiency and consistency across departments
- Support reducing time taken for all operational tasks, minimising risk through consistent process and efficiency gains.
- Support operational fault resolution, assessment, and actioning
- Evaluate ideal efficiency goals and deliver methods of meeting these, to reduce risk, increase throughput and promote consistency, cost saving and overall operational reliability.
- Build relationships across all teams and areas of influence
- Establish a methodology for highlighting risk factors ahead of them happening
- Simulation of potential operational failures.
- Supporting dynamic rotations of staff by ensuring knowledge does not lie only in individuals.
Job requirements
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
- Proven track record of project delivery and operations optimisation
- Masters or bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
- Excellent analytical skills with an attention to detail
- Experience of working in a high technological engineering environment
- Proven track record of cross functional liaison and delivery management
- Able to develop, participate and thrived in a team-orientated environment
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office products and MRP systems
- Experience of introducing new working practices to achieve competitive operational and reliability status
- Understanding of Continuous Improvement Methodologies and Control Mechanisms
- Ability to present data and effect change to a set schedule and timeline.
Personal attributes:
- Energetic, enthusiastic, and highly self-motivated
- Proactive - takes opportunity to use initiative where possible
- Team player – both supportive and approachable, able to extract the best from a team whilst maintaining good relations
- Determined – results focused, driven to do the very best possible
- Respectful, aware of time constraints and adaptable to personality types
What McLaren can offer?
We constantly strive to be better tomorrow than we are today. Our ambition is to be the most pioneering and exhilarating racing team in the world, and our collective task is to set the standards for high performance in sport. We show up every day with energy and enthusiasm, ready to play our part.
We encourage and support diversity, equity and inclusion. We will actively promote a culture that values difference and eliminates discrimination in our workplace.
McLaren Racing is based at the iconic McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) near Woking. Our state of the art, sustainable campus offers many facilities including a gym, restaurant and indoor and outdoor break-out areas, as well as direct access to park and common land. The MTC is connected to Woking mainline station via regular shuttle buses, from which London Waterloo is a 30 minute train ride.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including private healthcare, car schemes, life insurance and generous pension contributions.
