Junior Manufacturing Engineer

Job Description:

Are you a hands-on junior engineer looking to accelerate your career?
Do you want exposure to a huge breadth of manufacturing challenges that you’d never get in a large automotive organisation?

Our client is a fast-growing automotive manufacturing business based in Coventry, and they’re looking for a Junior Manufacturing Engineer to join a lean, ambitious engineering team. This is a rare opportunity to work side-by-side with a highly experienced Senior Manufacturing Engineer, gaining direct mentorship while playing a meaningful role in shaping production processes from the ground up.

If you want responsibility, variety, and the chance to make a visible impact from day one — this is it.

⭐ Why This Role Is Different

Instead of getting siloed into one tiny part of the process (as often happens in large OEMs), you’ll be exposed to end-to-end manufacturing engineering across new product introduction, process improvement, documentation, quality tools, and continuous improvement.

You will genuinely broaden your experience faster here than almost anywhere else.

What You’ll Be Doing

With guidance, training and mentorship, you will eventually take ownership of:

Manufacturing Process & Documentation

• Creating and managing all manufacturing technical documentation
  (work instructions, stage drawings, routers, BOM-related documents)

• Ensuring controlled, accurate, and up-to-date documentation packages

Quality & Build-in-Quality Tools

• Using BIQ tools such as Process Maps, PFMEA, and Control Plans

• Analysing data to monitor process capability and drive improvement

Engineering Support & Problem Solving

• Planning and managing day-to-day engineering activities

• Supporting design, manufacturing, purchasing, and quality to meet cost and timing targets

• Investigating and resolving technical issues on the shop floor

Continuous Improvement

• Supporting production flow and eliminating bottlenecks

• Reducing concessions, rework and scrap

• Driving down manufacturing costs through improved methods and challenging design

About You

We’re looking for the right attitude first and foremost:

✔ Open-minded
✔ Hard-working
✔ Ambitious
✔ Keen to learn and take on responsibility

Experience we’re looking for:

• 1–3 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment
  (automotive preferred, but not essential)

• Exposure to production, engineering or process-related activities

• A desire to develop quickly and broaden your capabilities

If you’re the type of person who thrives in a fast-moving environment and wants a role where you’re more than just a small cog in a huge machine — you’ll fit right in.

What You’ll Get

• Hands-on mentorship from a highly experienced Senior Manufacturing Engineer

• Opportunity to work across the entire manufacturing engineering spectrum

• Fast professional development in a growing business

• The chance to leave your mark on new products and processes

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