Manufacturing Engineer

Situation

An exciting opportunity for an experienced bi-lingual (Spanish & English speaking) Manufacturing Engineer to work for a world class leader in the international market for the design, manufacture, maintenance and supply of equipment and components for railway systems.

Ford & Stanley Recruitment are partnered with one of the most complete manufacturer of rail vehicles in the UK market. Recognised with “Manufacturer of the Year” award at the prestigious Global Light Rail Awards, this is the perfect opportunity for an experienced manufacturing engineer to join a business working on exciting projects.

The successful candidate will have new product/project introduction experience, whilst also having a BEng Mechanical / Electrical field qualification.

Please note that the role requires travel to Spain and significant time there to work and develop alongside with the Project Managers, hence the requirement to be fluent in Spanish.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Cycle Short Term

• Project management of project industrialisation utilising functional resources of Manufacturing Engineering department and wider business functions.
• Chair project manufacturing and validation forums and close out actions.
• Reporting KPIs of project goals.
• Working in a multidisciplinary team to deliver the business goals
• Sequence of assembly analysis and setting the manufacturing assembly goals.
• Technical understanding of assemblies and central point for escalating production issues.
• Use of Catia and 3DX to interrogate and analyse 3D models.
• Use of 3D Experience to follow the engineering change process from creation to change action and implementation.

Project Cycle Medium Term

• Time studies and analysis to ensure assembly goals are achieved.
• Control the sequence of assembly and continually improve to achieve high efficiency.
• Ensure the delivery of all aspects of manufacturing strategy are delivered in full on time.
• Cost analysis management of the project hours and investigate discrepancies.
• Rapid purchasing of materials related to modifications.

Project Cycle Long Term

• Managing the transition of the project to the closeout phase and ensuring materials and REPOs etc are controlled and resource is provided for closure.
• Wrap-up the project ensuring any outstanding issues are closed.

Location: Newport + up to 3 months in Zaragoza each year.

Salary: £300 - £350 per day (Inside IR35)

Duration: 2 year FTC.

Agreed Criteria for candidates to secure interview

• New product/project introduction experience
• Leading multidisciplinary teams
• Project management experience
• Excellent IT skills including experience of Microsoft packages.
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
• Able to maintain accurate records.
• Able to work flexibly across a broad range of activities as the role evolves.
• Able to respond and adapt to changing circumstances in a fast-paced pressured environment.
• Able to work autonomously as well as part of a team.

About Ford & Stanley Group

Ford & Stanley Group are in the business of people and performance. Our mission is to create one million better workdays through facilitating great recruitment, leadership and occupational mental fitness.

Ford & Stanley Group Ltd is a Disability Confident Committed employer and is committed to a policy of equal opportunities for all opportunity seekers. We shall adhere to such a policy at all times and will review on an on-going basis all aspects of recruitment to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination. We will treat everyone equally irrespective sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief or political beliefs and we place an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with the policy.