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:
As Senior Specialist, People Engineer, you’ll join us to support the team on our high-performance journey, providing exceptional HR service across the F1 function of McLaren Racing Limited (‘MRL’): delivering a progressive people agenda, helping to support the delivery of long-term business planning, and developing – as well as providing – HR solutions to ensure a great employee experience. You will collaboratively craft the People Strategy with your senior leaders to help take our People Partnering to the next level.
You will be the first point of call for senior managers in departments across our F1 Production and Operations function but may also support other areas at MRL when required. You will be confident in providing tailored, operational advice and support, and rolling out agreed initiatives. As a confident HR practitioner, you will be able to act as a sounding board, provide key solutions as well as build and foster strong working relationships – being an integral part of the teams you support.
Role Dimensions:
As a People & Culture team, we are on a journey to become a World Championship contending race team - by making sure we also become a world leading employer.
You’ll be collaborating widely across the People & Culture team. You’ll quickly discover it’s a pro-active team that thrives on working at pace, with agility and delivering meaningful change for McLaren Racing. Most of all we support each other and roll our sleeves up when it matters.
This role will be reporting to the Head of, People Engineering – Production and Operations and will have no direct reports. Your main stakeholders will include our team members, team leaders, managers and senior managers in the functional areas you support (predominantly our Production and Operations group), collaborating closely with the relevant Finance Business Partners too. You will also work closely with our Advisors and People Partners within the People Team and both the Admin and Talent Team.
We have adopted hybrid working across the team, but flexibility to work hours will be required to meet the operational demands of the teams you support.
Principal Accountabilities:
Stakeholder Management & Communication
Operational HR Support
People and Culture Strategy
Knowledge Skills and Requirements
What can McLaren 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. Here at McLaren, we offer hybrid working with 3 days a week based in the MTC.
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.
