Background
The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations.
At McLaren Applied, we’re accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future. Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance.
We’re at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including automotive transportation and motorsport. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
We want to help to reduce the carbon footprint and become more sustainable. Our focus is on electrification and telemetry, control and analytics.
To deliver efficient lightweight electric powertrain and vehicle development; motorsport solutions that make series more sustainable and efficient; reliable connectivity solutions for transportation and insightful analytics and monitoring of transport fleets.
By applying our expertise, we deliver real benefits and pioneer a better future.
Purpose of the Role
- To aid in the scheduling and coordination of manufactured products from release, to manufacturing through to completion, ensuring maximum performance and minimum delay.
- Proactively address potential or actual material shortages with suppliers to track and improve shortage dates.
- Responsible for liaising with the production, purchasing, sales and project teams to achieve the successful completion of work orders through to customer delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Confer with department Managers to determine overdue work and to inform production planners of material status
- Contact suppliers by phone and email to chase shortages
- Contact suppliers by phone and email to expedite outstanding Purchase Orders
- Contact suppliers by phone and email to ensure Purchase Orders are to schedule
- Keeping track of shipments and movement of material, providing regular updates to key stake holders as to the progress of parts.
- Coordinating with subcontractors to ensure schedules are maintained
- Update SAGE with latest delivery information
- Participation in the production daily stand-up meetings.
- Identify opportunities to consolidate work orders allowing more efficient production builds
- Ensure production EOQ’s are considered when loading production work orders
- DCR management and liaising with sales admin
- Support materials for the returns process
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience:
- Operational experience in supply chain management is essential.
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills.
- Good understanding or previous experience of ERP or similar.
- IT skills, advanced excel capability and reporting skills are an advantage.
- Have a high level of initiative and ability to work independently.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent time management.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Ability to manage risk
- Demonstrate a high level of commitment to achieving objectives.
- Thrives in a fast paced challenging environment.
- Ability to fully contribute to the process of continuous improvement.
- Ability to entrench a collaborative approach to problem solving.
- Pro-active and practical attitude
- Good understanding of working in similar role.
- Analytical thinker with demonstrated problem solving skills
What we can offer you
In return for everything you bring to the table, we can ensure an exciting, challenging role in a dynamic business surrounded by some of the best people in their respective fields.
At McLaren Applied we firmly believe it’s the relationships and friendships we create while working that make us special. We’re also aware that the world is changing and we are part of that change. We all want and need different things from our work and home lives, so, if you have commitments outside of work, we’re open to talking through flexible working options that work for you and us.
- Annual leave (25 days + bank holidays, pro-rated for part time colleagues).
- Enhanced Company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave and pay.
- Flexible working policies, including Hybrid Working.
- Life assurance to the value of 4 times base salary
- Opportunity to join the McLaren Applied Pension Plan
- Company funded individual private healthcare with the opportunity to extend to partner or spouse and/or dependents at a discounted rate.
- Ride-to-work with Evans Cycles – take advantage of the Government’s Cycle-to-Work scheme which offers savings of up to 42% on the cost of a new bike, cycling accessories and components.
- Electric car scheme – opportunity to drive a brand-new car in a more affordable way through this salary sacrifice scheme. Employees are eligible to join the scheme after successful competition of their probationary period.
Our values
OWNERSHIP
OPENNESS
BRAVERY
INGENUITY
HUMILITY
McLaren Applied are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) and promote DEI in all we do. McLaren Applied are also members of the UK Government Disability Confident Scheme.
