Lead Composite Design Engineer
Brackley, UK
At the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, a group of passionate and determined people work to design, develop, manufacture and race the cars with the aim of fighting for world championships each and every year.
Whether working in our Operations, Technical, Race or Business Support functions, we are all in and aspire to build the greatest team in the history of our sport.
Every individual plays their part. No stone is left unturned in the chase for every tenth of a second. The history of our sport is long and rich, and we are continuing our journey with renewed effort year on year. Record books remember the names of a few, but history is written by the many.
About the Role:
A fantastic opportunity has become available in our Composite Design Group for a Lead Composite Design Engineer. Reporting to the Head of Composite Design, the successful candidate will be responsible for leading a group in delivering performance and reliability to a significant area of the car design. You must be comfortable challenging yourself and others with respect and passion to drive our projects forward whilst striving to achieve the best possible results. You will exhibit an in-depth understanding of composites design, materials selection, manufacturing processes and their applications with a solid first principles understanding.
Candidate Profile:
- Composite, Mechanical, or Aeronautical Engineering degree (2:1 minimum grade).
- Having multiple years’ F1 Design experience (10~15yrs) with a proven track record for successfully leading and delivering a range of significant Composite projects, demonstrating technology improvements and innovation.
- A clear and holistic understanding of racing car design with strong understanding of the bigger picture including where to focus to optimise performance.
- Strong knowledge in Composite materials and relevant manufacturing process.
- Experience of Catia V5/3DX design & FEA package would be beneficial.
- Understanding and ability to perform hand calculation produce reliable and optimised designs.
- A good understanding and ability to interpret FEA results.
- Excellent communication and collaborative skills to ensure clear direction for your group and cross departmental integration.
- High attention to detail and the ability to work under limited supervision to tight deadlines.
- Strong capability in project management; forecasting & planning.
Whilst the environment in which you will work will be pressured and will demand a high level of attention to detail, you will be fully supported by your team to give you opportunity to be creative and develop solutions to achieve the very best.
Key responsibilities/Duties:
- Responsible for keeping the specified area of composites design at the very cutting edge in the industry.
- Responsible for identifying performance opportunities and guiding the group across the process of innovation and continuous development.
- Responsible for delivering the high-quality engineering solutions for the specific Car Group area through managing the resource allocation to achieve the schedule, including themselves in the allocation.
- Responsible for ensuring strong collaboration across the entire business.
- Responsible for the day-to-day technical leadership in the specific area with their engineers, consulting HoD on high level decisions.
- Responsible for highlighting any risks to HoD throughout the product lifecycle.
- Responsible for delivering quality schemes to Stress Group in an efficient manner, allowing sufficient time to provide an optimised laminate solution.
- Responsible for checking the general quality of engineering releases; drawing, modelling and analysis of components released from your engineering area and ensuring they meet MAMG design standards and processing them through the correct channels.
- Accountable for ERP (SAP) sign-off for Engineering released of Life class NC to B3 in the absence of HoD.
- Responsible for the Car Groups final assembly mass quality as stated within the mass tracker in terms of both CoG and mass.
- Responsible for ensuring that appropriate level of validation has been completed in a timely manner allowing action to be taken if required.
- Responsible for checking and ensuring life allocations are correct and creating ZSAR ECN’s in a timely manner leading into an event.
- Responsible for guiding the technical resolution of feedbacks allocated to your engineering area and supporting the Groups Reliability Engineer.
- Responsible for identifying and supporting development opportunities, both technical and capability, across the group.
Line Management tasks:
- Responsible for the personal development of the engineers within their area, supporting them identifying development opportunities and providing regular feedback.
- Accountable for completion of PR for engineers within their area, consulting HoD for feedback and ensure consistency across the Composite Group.
- Accountable for the sign-off of holiday and lieu day allocations based on company procedures, ensuring sufficient capability to complete scheduled tasks & keeping HoD informed.
Benefits:
Our riverside campus is powered by 100% renewably sourced energy and features an on-site gym and exercise studio, subsidised restaurant and on-site parking with EV chargers available.
We offer a competitive and attractive package of benefits including a generous bonus scheme, Mercedes car lease scheme, private medical cover, life assurance and 25 days holiday. We pride ourselves on our family-friendly environment and employee well-being programmes.
Why us:
At the heart of our performance are our people. Every member of our team has a voice and plays their part in contributing to our successes on and off the racetrack. We take pride in creating an innovative, collaborative and high-performance culture where all of our team members are respected, empowered and valued.
Through our Accelerate 25 programme, we are continuously working to make our team even more diverse and inclusive. Whatever your background, we believe that you will find working with us rewarding and enriching.
Your Application:
We will ask you to complete a questionnaire as well as submitting a cover letter and CV. Please upload your cover letter and CV as one single PDF file.
