Anyone interested in working for Mclaren on the race team?
I've just heard that McLaren are looking for someone to run IT on the race team and I thought someone here might be interested. It's not
advertised on their site as they end up with 1000's of CV from chancers so they tend to just put the word out.
Must be willing to travel the world, sleep with pit girls and experience the highs and lows of F1 racing!
Oh, on the downside: Work ridiculously hard and handle stress well!
I believe you'd have to do other non-IT related jobs when out at races too, for example, my friend who did the job a few years ago used to be one
of the team firemen during the actual races.
If you're interested and have appropriate experience then let me know and I'll forward your CV on to my contact.
EDIT: Dont know much about the job myself. Will see what I can find out.
All the best,
James
P.S. If you dont do IT but are interested in working in F1 then get Autosport magazine. I've seen quite a few F1 jobs in there with various teams
from painting F1 cars to factory logistics.
[Edited on 16/5/11 by James]
Do they have any particular IT skills as requirements?
I can operate Word 95! Would that do!?
owww i could do that.
that would be a good job.
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Originally posted by James
sleep with pit girls
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Originally posted by blakep82
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Originally posted by James
sleep with pit girls
do they normally go for the IT guy?
sounds like a fantastic oppertunity, but well beyond me
council said, after much considerations blah blah blah, they had more suitable candidates.
this was ages before the closing date. so i'm not good to be a grave digger
i've seen IT crowd lol
For those that want details
Okay, as I said, I have no proper job spec for this which I understand makes it hard to apply for the job/tune CV. I've just applied for a
'hear about' job myself and it was very hard to get things targeted.
The guy who's told me about the job has sent me a copy of his linkedIn profile for when he did it a few years ago. Hopefully this will be of some
use to you.
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Race Team ICT Analyst McLaren
Privately Held; Automotive industry
June 2004 – August 2005 (1 year 3 months)
Responsible for all aspects of IT on the McLaren F1 Race Team.
I travelled with the team to every location on the Formula 1 race calendar and delivered the IT systems required for the race weekend. This involved
designing the rugged systems required for the harsh garage environements, deploying the servers and infrastructure into the garage, supporting all
race engineers and servers during the race weekend and bringing the servers back to Woking afterwards.
I was the only IT personell track side and as such learnt how to work under massive pressure and to be extremely creative in my problem solving.
The technologies that I looked after were:
Windows Server (2000/2003)
SQL (2000/2005)
Various custom McLaren applications
Cisco VPN
Cisco Networking (Switching & Routing - Copper & Fabric)
WAN Optimisation Equipment
VOIP
Desktop support of Windows XP
In addition to my support duties, I was also ran car telemetry for Pedro De La Rosa and Alex Wurz during their 3rd car testing sessions in the 2005
season.
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He also says:
"Not sure about salary. It's probably around £40-45K + loads in expenses. It's bloody hard work too, I wouldn't normally recommend
it to most people, but then again, some people are too into F1 to care ;-) "
Obviously adjust the profile above for the fact that things have moved on a little since he did it so it'll be modern OS' and
hardware/software.
Hope that's of some help!
James
We dont get many jobs advertised on here for that sort of rate do we!!! lol
The HR at Mclaren are a pleasure to deal with as well from my experience, unlike some places where trying to contact them is like pulling teeth!
F1 isn't that hard to break into, the teams I work with are crying out for competent engineers at the moment, there were 60 job vacancy's
last month were I work, the HR woman even came round asking me if I had any mates who were looking for jobs.
They are advertised on the usual 'Jobsites' as well, you just need to be able to pick them out as the recruiters don't like to give
away who they're recruiting for or people go direct. The easiest thing to do is know were the teams are based, for instance a 'specialist
car maker in Surrey' is going to be Mclaren then you can spot the F1 jobs.