Principal Design Quality Engineer

We’re looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Design Quality team, working closely with the Head of Engineering Operations to raise design methodology, process and governance to industry-leading standards across Vehicle Engineering. You’ll manage a team of engineers, while collaborating with the other Principal Engineers across Design, taking ownership of a defined slice of the Design Quality remit and driving it from concept through to embedded practice.

Key responsibilities

• Own the quality, productivity and delivery of your group’s work, setting objectives, timescales and success criteria in agreement with the Head of Design Quality.
• Deliver new tools and processes that support effective working in the Design Office and, where needed, the wider organisation.
• Lead ongoing process mapping and maintain the integrity of every process and procedure you implement.
• Lead and coach your team, owning performance reviews and development plans for direct reports.
• Act as the key liaison across the design lifecycle value stream, including Manufacturing, Quality, Parts and Logistics, and the Race Team.
• Proactively identify and resolve process inefficiencies, and deputise for the Head of Design Quality when required.

About you

• Existing relevant experience, with strong grounding in design process, design and drawing standards, and quality management/assurance methods.
• Proven ability to manage significant projects and take a strategic view of design process dependencies, upstream and downstream.
• Strong coaching and people leadership skills, comfortable working across an instruction to empowerment development model.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to influence upwards and across the business.
• Good overall knowledge of car design and the commercial realities of concept to track delivery.

Company Description

For almost 50 years, Williams has been at the forefront of one of the fastest sports on the planet, being one of the top three most successful teams in history competing in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. With an almost unrivalled heritage of engineering and racing F1 cars and unforgettable eras that demonstrate it is a force to be reckoned with, the British squad boasts 16 F1 World Championship titles to its name. Since its foundation in 1977 by the eminent, late Sir Frank Williams and engineering pioneer Sir Patrick Head, the team has won nine Constructors’ Championships. Atlassian Williams F1 Team is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion.