Manufacturing Engineering Technician – Body Assembly

McLaren Automotive · Woking You will support the Manufacturing Engineering team in ensuring and improving adhesive and joining processes used in Body Assembly. Principal accountabilities: Coordinate and execute a defined process validation and assurance programme within Body Assembly. Monitor and report on process performance, identifying variations, risks, and opportunities to improve quality and consistency. Maintain process-related data and reporting outputs, ensuring accurate documentation and traceability. Prepare detailed process validation reports to support engineering decisions. Investigate and resolve manufacturing and quality-related issues. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain stable and repeatable manufacturing processes. Contribute to developing and refining process standards, procedures, and work instructions. Support introducing and validating new or modified processes, materials, and technologies. Liaise with stakeholders to ensure processes and materials meet safety and quality requirements. Support corrective action management and process improvements. Additional responsibilities: Participate in process reviews and continuous improvement workshops. Contribute to PFMEA and process control activities. Assist with introducing engineering changes into production. Support training and knowledge sharing within the team. Requirements: Experience in a manufacturing or assembly environment (automotive or similar). Understanding of manufacturing processes and production environments. Data collection, analysis, and reporting experience. Ability to support structured problem-solving and improvement activities. Awareness of process assurance and quality control principles. Strong attention to detail and ability to work to defined standards. Collaborative and proactive mindset. Benefits: Structured career development framework. 25 days' holiday, plus bank holidays. Enhanced company pension scheme. Discretionary annual bonus award. Private medical insurance and health cash plan. Life assurance benefit. Sabbatical opportunity after two years' service. Adaptable benefits and wellbeing initiatives.