Production Workflow Optimisation Engineer

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:

The Production workflow optimisation Specialist is responsible for identifying, modelling, and delivering performance improvements across the Formula 1 team’s technical, operational, and organisational systems. Working at the intersection of data, engineering, and operations, the role ensures that opportunities are systematically identified, prioritised, and converted into measurable on-track and off-track performance advantages.

This is a highly collaborative role that requires both strategic thinking and hands-on execution. You will partner with subject matter experts, engineers, and technicians to identify opportunity and deliver results whilst also mentoring colleagues, facilitating workshops, and driving a mindset of proactive improvement.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Optimise performance and systems by identifying inefficiencies across car development, manufacturing, operations, and trackside execution, applying modelling, simulation, and statistical analysis to balance trade‑offs such as lap time, reliability, cost cap, and risk.
• Develop data-led decision tools and analytical models to support strategy, prioritisation, and operational planning, delivering clear, actionable recommendations to senior leadership.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives, embedding evidence‑based problem‑solving, tracking realised benefits, and ensuring improvements deliver long-term, measurable performance gains.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration by connecting technical and operational teams, challenging existing processes constructively using data and logic, and enabling more effective, aligned ways of working.
• Promote innovation and marginal gains, using structured methodologies and analytics to uncover new opportunities, enhance processes, and elevate overall organisational performance.
  
  
  

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Strong analytical background (engineering, applied mathematics, physics, operations research or similar) with proven experience in optimisation, performance analysis, or complex systems improvement.
• Advanced data analysis and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to translate complex insights into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Experience working in fast‑paced, high‑stakes environments, ideally with exposure to precision manufacturing or engineering processes.
• Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma and change‑management principles (Green/Black Belt preferred), with a track record of leading improvement initiatives end‑to‑end.
• Highly organised, self‑motivated and an effective communicator with strong attention to detail.
  
  
  

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.