Andrew Marche

Principal Engineer - Panels @McLaren Automotive Ltd

Responsible for leading the design and engineering of all Body Panels across Super & GT vehicle lines. Responsible for ensuring the systems and components are delivered robustly together with all applicable attributes; Passive Safety, NVH, Weight, Cost, A-Class Surfacing and Quality of Design. Principal Responsibilities - Line manage a team of Technical experts in their field (Project Engineers, Design Engineers)- Lead a team to deliver all systems in line with targets, KPI’s and milestones, on multiple vehicle programmes - Achieve required standards on Design and Engineering integrity to exceed quality, performance and commercial goals - Lead and develop the team’s capabilities and performance to meet and exceed the current and future challenges set by the business - Maximize the technical and project management capabilities of my team to make sure every member of the team is a technical expert in his/her field with excellent project delivery skills - Achieve the BOM cost target on all Body Panel Systems - Achieve the Investment Budget - including internal and outsourced labour, tooling costs and supplier or internal D&D investment- Deliver Technical Specifications, DVPs, DFMEAs for all Body Panel systems in line with McLaren and VCA standards - Innovation – Define future component and system technical strategies and associated technologies roadmaps. Where necessary, identify research topics, associated budgets, resource, partners and funding streams- Develop the relationship, framework and ultimately the capability of the strategic outsourced resource partners - Promote, implement and support a Simultaneous approach - Develop a high level of technical competence within the in-house team in order to provide a significant and immediate DFM support to the design process - Support the supplier nomination strategy to deliver prompt and accurate DFM input