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What Race Teams are Looking for in Motorsport Job Candidates (2015-07-23)
If you’re well into your motorsport careers, you’re expected to hit the ground running when you land a new motorsport job. You need to have fairly immediate impact on the performance of the car, meaning you’ll need to know the software the team is using, the technology they’re using and more. Your new job will require that you understand the dynamics of a race car. For example, a lot of people looking come from the aerospace industry. These folks can be quite successful because essentially, a racecar is an airplane set upside down when you look at aerodynamics of it.
But one complaint a lot of motorsport teams have about people that work in aerospace industry, for example, is that they’re used to much, much longer lead times for delivering a result as compared with typical motorsport careers requirement. An airplane takes perhaps 7 to 8 years to develop and test, while a Formula 1™ car part, for example might require a 2 day delivery time. Meaning, many jobs require the ability of being able to work quickly and be accurately.
On the technical side, you should know your programs, hardware and so forth and understand the other dynamics of a racecar. In entry level positions, teams are looking much more for “academic prowess”. Meaning, do you understand the philosophies or dynamics behind aerodynamics? Do you understand the different materials? The various composites and compounds? So they’re looking much more on those kinds of things, and do you have the basic mathematical background to understand the software program’s results and how the program derived at that result in order to analyze it. So a lot of teams will say that in the entry level positions, math is very important, and that’s on the software side, the aerodynamics side, the wind tunnel side; everywhere.
Now when it comes down to production, it’s more about handling the machinery. Have you dealt with the program on the Haas CNC machine? Are you used to Heidenhain controls? These skills may be required in the area you’re targeting. For example, if you’re a quality inspector in your new job, you will typically be asked to show your expertise in PC-DMIS software. If you think about what teams are looking for in candidates and plan your C.V. accordingly, you can achieve the motorsport jobs of your dreams.
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