Electronic Hardware Technician

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:

Provide full life-cycle electronic and electrical design support for the build, calibration, inspection and maintenance for all aspects of the electronic systems used for the Formula 1 Racing programme. This includes hands-on involvement in the physical delivery of on-car instrumentation, as well as contributing to ongoing engineering projects aimed at improving the quality and reliability of vehicle data through continuous development of advanced instrumentation systems. This role is pivotal in the generation and processing of on-track data to feed racing decisions.

Role Dimensions: 

This role operates as a core member of an agile team of expert technicians, collaborating with cross-functional groups including Electronic Engineering, Design, Car Build, Project Management and Trackside Operations.

This role is based on site at MTC, Woking, and may require some flexibility for evenings/weekend work as part of the demands of the role and team, in line with the F1 race season.

Principal Accountabilities

• Maintain strong and professional communication with key stakeholders in the instrumentation and control systems in order to ensure the equipment delivered is as required and fit for purpose

• Coordinate day to day activities with leaders and colleagues in other groups in order to prioritise tasks and coordinate equipment work progress and delivery.

• Prioritise week to week and seasonal activities to best match the demands of the wider team e.g. freight return and turnaround preparations with time, parts and consumables planning

• Intend for continuous improvement and reliability focus, identifying opportunities for improving system reliability, reducing weight or simplifying serviceability.

• Generate accurate documentation, results and records to support engineering systems focused on data quality and traceability e.g. calibration records, production drawings.

• Develop new and evolving existing calibration and validation processes and procedures with both McLaren engineering groups and external suppliers in order to enhance data quality.

• Be proactive with improving the instrumentation and production programme.

• Escalate technical and design issues as well as reliability and quality concerns to leaders in the appropriate teams and engineering groups.

• Perform root-cause investigations on sensor and transducers in order to facilitate team wide reliability and fault correction processes.

• Take an active role in reliability through implementing preventative maintenance regimes, monitoring damage trends, escalating observations and making recommendations where appropriate.

• Ensure third party supplier quality levels through specialised inspection and component testing and escalating quality and supplier concerns where appropriate.

• Liaise directly with external suppliers to coordinate production, calibration work and fault investigation and rectification.

• Plan and coordinate scheduled servicing and calibration work to cover the full car lifecycle from development through to winter testing and the race season.