Job Description

Chief Engineer Contractor - Aston Martin Performance Technologies

Application Deadline: 8 November 2026

Department: AMPT Special Projects - Engineering/Management

Employment Type: Contract / Temp

Location: Silverstone

Description

We are searching for a short-term (6 months) Chief Engineer Contractor to join our Aston Martin Performance Technologies (AMPT) - Special Projects team, working across design, development, performance, and operations to enable the delivery of the team's programmes.

AMPT Special Projects is an advanced engineering group focused on applying our F1-derived high-performance engineering, innovation, technical expertise and breakthrough technologies, to deliver high-performance engineering projects outside of Formula One™.

Key Responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity for a Chief Engineer Contractor to get involved involved with physical system design and performance optimisation, integrating inputs from multiple engineering disciplines. In this position, you will use state-of-the-art resources and relevant methodologies to design, evaluate, and optimise new concepts, maximising performance within the constraints of each Programme and streamlining the ways of working. You will be expected to understand and implement the programme development and delivery strategy in alignment to schedule and budget, providing key updates on potential barriers, limitations, threats, opportunities or weaknesses that might impact the overall delivery, ensuring a "best-in-class" approach is adopted throughout.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven experience in a Senior or Chief Engineer role, with strong technical proficiency across core areas coupled with a background of providing practical solutions or capabilities whilst successfully enacting them, thus enabling people to do their jobs more effectively.
• BEng / MEng qualifications or similar is preferred, though not essential.
• Japanese verbal communication and written comprehension skills preferred, though not essential.
• Possess an excellent working knowledge of core engineering systems (including mechanical) and processes (including knowledge of relevant regulations and constraints) applicable to the role.
• Demonstrable ability to optimise a design concept using simulation, test correlation, and structured methods, to embed continuous improvement and process philosophies into core business.