Manufacturing Engineer

Job description

Role: Manufacturing Engineer / Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Banbury

Hours per week: 40

Rate per hour: £38-40 p/h depending on experience (Inside IR35/Umbrella Company)

Contract Length: Up to April 2027 (Possibility of extending)

An opportunity has arisen for a Manufacturing Engineer / Advanced Manufacturing Engineer to join the Manufacturing Engineering department in a rapidly expanding and exciting work environment.

What you will do

• Defining and leading the setup of medium and high-volume production environments and the development of manufacturing processes to ensure production is conducted safely, on time and on budget whilst ensuring best practice is adhered to.
• Defining equipment specifications required to achieve the production requirements
• Demonstrable experience of New Product Introduction (NPI) and product industrialisation.
• Defining and leading the scaling up of low volume products & processes to support mass production volumes.
• Supplier investigation and appointment to establish a robust and capable supply base for automation equipment.
• Defining and leading the successful implementation and delivery of specific Advanced Production Quality Plans for new product introduction.
• Provide manufacturing engineering support to the Production, Procurement and Programmes Teams.
• Map processes and where necessary utilise techniques such as PFMEA's and control plans.
• Produce and maintain SOPs, build records, process routings and production documentation.
• Devise and own specific elements of the quality improvement road map supporting the Quality Management System and our compliance to ISO9001:2015, and any project specific quality requirements.
• Training and mentoring of junior Engineers

About you

• Experience gained in a mid / high volume manufacturing / production assembly environment.
• Knowledge of mid / high volume automation tools and techniques.
• Experience in (NPI) new product introduction and APQP tools.
• Experience in manufacturing facility design.
• Ideally knowledge of Siemens Teamcenter, MPP, NX and NoMuda Visual Factory software would be preferred.
• Working knowledge of CDM regulations is desirable.
• Experience in the use of business improvement tools and techniques (5s, Lean, Kaizen etc.) and the use and construction of PFMEA’s and Control Plans.
• A good understanding of Quality Systems, and processes to comply with company processes is essential.
• The ability to work on own initiative, and able to influence others by demonstrating a positive “can do” attitude

Reference 225700715