Manufacturing Engineer

Job title:

Manufacturing Engineer

Company

Electus Recruitment Solutions

Job description

As Manufacturing Engineer, you can own the manufacturing process, to ensure quality product on time and within budget.You will be a Manufacturing Engineering authority on process for a long-established UK manufacturer and supplier for the design and production of gearing systems and specialist gearboxes and a specialist in the aerospace and defence power transmission field.About the job:The client currently requires Senior Manufacturing / Manufacturing Engineers to take a lead on all manufacturing and assemblies as well as process improvement. The job scope will range from day-to-day production support to implementation of new products and processes. The job will involve;

• Providing manufacturing support via problem solving and process improvements for the production team.
• Create and properly maintain process documentation, work instructions, control plans and stage & fixture drawings.
• Support day-to-day production as required.
• Optimize all aspects of existing production processes, quality and efficiency.
• Manage all aspects of consumable tooling required for production.
• Create and properly manage BOMS and routings.
• Responsible for ensuring cycle and setup times are accurate through the manufacturing cycle.
• Process improvements to eliminate scrap, rework and returns.
• Ensure new products transition efficiently from concept to the shop floor and achieve planned cost and lead time.
• Properly deploy lean tools and practices throughout operations. 5S, TPM, VRK and VSM.
• Develop cross functional working relationships with other departments.

About you:As a Manufacturing Engineer your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent apprenticeships in an engineering discipline, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial.
• Strong industry experience in metal machining processes, rotating equipment design.
• A proven record of developing capable manufacturing processes.
• Competent in reading and developing manufacturing drawings.
• A proven record of solving difficult problems and improving processes.
• Strong written and verbal communications.
• Experience with solid works is preferred.
• Experience in leading kaizen, and/or rapid improvement events is preferred.
• Formal Green Belt / Black belt training or another problem-solving methods is preferred.
• Experience with Minitab is preferred.

Manufacturing Engineer
Welham Green, Hertfordshire
Permanent
Salary £50000 – £60000Keywords: Manufacturing, Production, Assembly, Process planning, Metal machining processes, Rotating equipment design Change management, Continuous Improvement, Aerospace, Defence, kaizen, 5S, TPM, VRK and VSM.Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don’t hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.This is a permanent position.

Expected salary

£50000 – 60000 per year

Location

Welham Green, Hertfordshire

Job date

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:49:03 GMT

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