Principal Design Quality Engineer

Overview

In this role you will lead the Design Quality function to raise engineering processes and governance to industry-leading standards within Williams F1’s Vehicle Engineering. You will manage a team and partner with Principal Engineers across Design to own a defined area of the Design Quality remit from concept to embedded practice. You will map, document, and maintain optimum F1 processes that stay current with evolving vehicle, operations, and FIA requirements. This position blends technical credibility with organizational influence to drive sustainable process improvements across the race team.

Responsibilities

• Own the quality, productivity and delivery of your group’s work with clear objectives and timelines
• Deliver tools and processes that support Design Office efficiency and broader organization
• Lead ongoing process mapping and maintain process integrity
• Lead and coach your team, including performance reviews and development plans
• Act as primary liaison across the design lifecycle value stream (Manufacturing, Quality, Parts and Logistics, Race Team)
• Proactively identify process inefficiencies and deputise for Head of Design Quality when needed

Key requirements

• Experience owning and developing engineering processes
• Strong grounding in design process, drawing standards, and quality management/assurance methods
• Proven ability to manage significant projects and take a strategic view of design dependencies
• Strong coaching and people leadership skills across an empowerment development model
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with ability to influence stakeholders
• Good knowledge of car design and commercial realities from concept to track delivery

• collaborative mindset
• resilience under pressure
• stakeholder management
• design quality fundamentals
• design process development
• process mapping

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