Geometrical Product Specification (GPS) Manager

McLaren Automotive · Woking · onsite The GPS Manager is accountable for leading the Geometrical Product Specification (GPS) function across McLaren Automotive, ensuring the effective deployment, governance and adoption of GPS standards throughout product development, supplier integration and manufacturing operations. The role provides functional leadership for a team of GPS Champions and Specialists and DVA CAD Designers, establishing the processes, capability and governance required to ensure consistent application of dimensional engineering principles, tolerance management and engineering definition standards across all vehicle programmes. Through close collaboration with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Purchasing and Suppliers, the GPS Manager ensures robust engineering definitions are established that support product quality, manufacturing capability, inspection effectiveness and right-first-time programme delivery. This function is crucial to integrate major vehicle systems; its outputs provide a common understanding of the GPS language and a “right first time” approach to preventing problems before they happen. Key Responsibilities: Lead, develop and manage the GPS function, including ER and CR workload planning, performance management, resource deployment and capability development. Establish departmental objectives and performance metrics aligned to business and programme requirements. Develop and maintain a network of GPS Champions across Engineering, Manufacturing and Supplier organisations. Build organisational capability through structured training, mentoring and coaching programmes. Ensure succession planning and technical competency development within the GPS team. Develop and coordinate the deployment of the “Golden Parts” Library. Define and manage the standards for GPS application in 2D & 3D CAD and 1D McLaren Tolerance Calculator, including ownership of training guides and methods. In addition to training all relevant stakeholders, identify, train and mentor “McLaren GPS Champions” to develop a broad network of high competency. Provide “at-elbow” drawing and GPS standards support to relevant stakeholders to ensure correct application, thereby setting the overall engineering assembly concept. Ensure cost, manufacture, inspection, and maintenance concerns are addressed within the dimensions and tolerances of Engineering definitions. GPS Governance & Standards Ownership. Own and govern McLaren Automotive GPS standards, methodologies, processes and training materials. Ensure engineering definitions are compliant with recognised industry standards, including BS 8888 and associated GPS frameworks. Lead the implementation and deployment of new GPS standards and methodologies across the organisation and supply chain. Define governance processes and quality gates to ensure compliance with engineering definition requirements. Programme Delivery. Provide GPS leadership across all vehicle programmes from concept development through launch and series production. Ensure dimensional and tolerance requirements support product functionality, manufacturability, including inspectional perspectives. Act as the escalation point for complex GPS and tolerance-related issues affecting programme delivery. Lead cross-functional reviews to ensure robust engineering assembly strategies are established and maintained. Supplier & Manufacturing Integration. Drive GPS adoption and capability development across the supplier network. Support the SQD team to ensure suppliers apply approved GPS methodologies and dimensional management practices. Support manufacturing, tooling and quality teams in developing effective measurement, validation and process control strategies. Support initiatives to improve supplier dimensional capability and engineering definition maturity. Support root cause analysis and issue resolution for relevant drawing / component tolerance problems. Ensure previous lessons learned are raised, addressed and embedded in