Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer - £45,000 - South Oxfordshire

Role: Manufacturing Engineer

Field: Mechanical Engineering/Manufacturing/Production Engineering/NPI/NPD/Precision Engineering

Salary: £45,000

Benefits include: Starting Holiday Allowance of 25 days, plus bank holidays, competitive pension scheme, life assurance, private healthcare, employee assistant programmes and more!

An excellent opportunity exists for ambitious Manufacturing/Production Engineer to join a world class organisation at their manufacturing facility in South Oxfordshire.

The Role:

To define, develop and implement robust engineering processes and systems and to ensure continuous improvement in order to optimise the manufacturing processes within the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• To define & co-ordinate robust engineering processes in order to maximise production and compacity utilisation
• Working with the Engineering team on both existing and NPI projects
• Close working partnership with the Design Engineer, taking R&D projects from the initial design concepts to production
• Ensure that all product and systems requirements are considered as well as amending and updating BOM's
• Building jig/tooling fixtures for both R&D testing and product manufacturing processes
• Creating test procedures
• Looking at DFM (Design for Manufacturing) and DFA (Design for Assembly) processes in order to improve cost, time and quality on NPI and existing products
• Generation and implementation of engineering solutions in order to up-scale current processes and to take products from development to full production
• Leading the application of detailed process understanding - design, develop and optimising manufacturing processes

Requirements:

• Minimum HNC-level qualification in process/mechanical engineering
• Manufacturing/Process engineering experience gained within a manufacturing business
• Experience in high complexity manufacturing processes
• Knowledge of lean Manufacturing Principles.
• Experience of 3D CAD
• Experience of high-level process control
• Experience of the following would be advantageous; FMEA, DFMA and LEAN principles
• Ability to bring projects in on time and to budget

This is a fantastic opportunity to work for an industry leading Engineering establishment and the opportunity to work alongside leading experts. To apply please send across your updated CV or call Jerry Hayman.

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