Production Engineering Manager

Are you an experienced Production Engineering Manager, who is looking to work in a fast paced, global, market leading company?

Here at Innovative Technology, we have an excellent opportunity for a Production Engineering Manager to join our talented team at our global head office in Oldham, Greater Manchester.

The role overview:

As our Production Engineering Manager, you will support the seamless transition of New Product Introduction (NPI) into volume production. You will act as an interface between development and offshore production facilities, ensuring effective knowledge transfer to the production teams. Applying principles of engineering and manufacturing technology to create efficient assembly processes, automated where appropriate. You will also handle day-to-day engineering queries from the Global production teams and oversee NPI builds.

Responsibilities of our Production Engineering Manager:

• Directly responsible for leading and managing a team of Production Engineers.
• Drive continuous improvement in process, quality and value engineering.
• Develop a detailed understanding of product function, having an ability to perform root cause analysis when dealing with production issues. Utilising industry tools efficiently prevent problem re-occurrence.
• Present regular Production Engineering updates to our Board of directors, and communicate findings to senior managers and engineering teams.
• Set high standards of technical knowledge through personal example and promote this behaviour throughout the team.
• Develop and introduce Standard Operating procedures for new and existing product lines
• Identifying, investigating, reporting, and rectifying all issues affecting throughput and quality.
• Efficiently manage production engineering task priorities and monitor progress to resolution.
• Overseeing pre-production NPI Builds, reporting and feedback of design-related issues to development as part of a design review process.
• Maintaining internal processes to support the education of the wider team and upskilling.
• Develop end of line test strategy, working with DevOps to finalise end-of-line test
• Agreeing, meeting, and exceeding deadlines for NPI/pre-series builds
• Raise Change requests and monitor Engineering Change Notification (ECN) progress and drive pending ECN’s to completion.

Skills & Experience required to become our Production Engineering Manager:

• At least 2 years of experience in a similar managerial role.
• Relevant engineering/manufacturing degree is preferred, or HND & BTEC level 5 or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of 2D and 3D CAD packages, preferably Siemens NX or similar.
• Evidence of strong leadership and project management skills.
• Process engineering disciplines including APQP, Gauge R&R, DFMA, DFMEA and PFMEA.
• Understanding of lean and six sigma tools & techniques.

Your Package & Perks:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible working hours  
• Paid breaks, with free hot premium drinks
• 32 days holiday, (including public Holidays) plus the opportunity to earn up to an extra 13 days holiday each year
• Enhanced Pension Contribution
• Enhanced Parental Leave 
• A choice of healthcare schemes
• Dental Scheme
• Life Insurance
• Electric Car Scheme   
• Onsite electric car charging points
• Staff car workshop     
• Free secure parking
• Free onsite modern gym
• Educational Sponsorship
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Informal dress code             

We’re Innovative…

Trading for over 30 years here at Innovative Technology, where we now have offices on five continents and employ around 400 people, with over 150 based from our state-of-the-art R&D hub.

From self-service checkouts to arcade machines, we provide our retail, banking, kiosk, vending, gaming and amusement customers with products and services that help them securely accept automated payments, with our industry-leading technology keeping us at the forefront of our sector. We also provide facial analysis technology for age estimation and control access for some of the world’s leading companies.

By being true to our values of Innovation, Collaboration, Respect and Drive we’ve seen significant growth and won numerous domestic and international awards, whilst offering outstanding career opportunities and great benefits. You’ll find us on the edge of the Pennines and less than half an hour from central Manchester, with modern offices, free parking and excellent transport links.

We are a disability-confident employer, as such we will shortlist all candidates meeting our minimum criteria (as specified in the job description) who state they have a disability within their application.

What’s next?

If you’re an experienced Production Engineering Manager and want to join our award-winning team working on the latest cutting-edge technology, we want to hear from you.

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