Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Our client is a well-established leader in their field and with a track record of continued profitable growth and a Global footprint. They are a designer and manufacturer of highly technical scientific instrumentation.

In this role you will be part of a team of empowered multi-disciplined engineers to take responsibility for the manufacturability of current and new products to ensuring that the Operations quality, delivery, and cost targets are achieved. The role is broad and will suit someone who enjoys variety and solving problems. The company is highly progressive, offering enormous opportunity for career development, whether in manufacturing or moving into other disciplines.

The Role

Do you enjoy unravelling problems and making life more efficient? Are you looking for a role where you can own and improve production processes to make life easier for those who do them? Do you want to do this in an ambitious, fast-growing, international company with a friendly and inclusive culture? Then this is the job you are looking for!

Our client is looking for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join their team in Malvern to help them make a big difference in how they make the high tech product range that they manufacture.

What are your responsibilities:

• Management of multiple manufacturing related projects and investigations of varying length and complexity.
• Resolve engineering challenges to production targets using structured problem solving tools like A3PS, 8D and DMAIC.
• Maintain and control manufacturing processes using lean tools including Standard Operating Procedures, Bills of Materials (BOMs), Control Plans, Value Stream Maps, Kanban, and Process Failure Mode Effect Analyses (PFMEAs).
• Drive, validate and implement changes to product design with a focus on quality and manufacturability, to make sure that both new and existing products can be made, assembled, and tested to the right specifications.
• Improve Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in your technology through targeted projects and communicate project progress to key stakeholders in production and the wider business.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams across the business to improve safety, quality and delivery of our market leading products.
• Support other operational teams to ensure that we can get the parts we need to make our products to the standard our customers want.
• Liaise with suppliers and our supplier quality team to resolve quality or delivery issues, as well as support supplier validation and reallocation processes.
• Own and develop cell and line layout and workstation design to make our processes the best and easiest they can be.
• Support of M&A activity through process transfer
• Resource management and budgeting

What do you need to be successful in this role?

• A hands-on approach to solving challenging engineering/manufacturing problems.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.
• Flexibility is essential in effectively managing both your own time and workload, as well as the workload of others, to strike a balance between promptly resolving immediate production issues and pursuing long-term improvement opportunities.
• A collaborative mindset to be able to contribute to and pull together with different teams across the business.
• Ideally Engineering or Manufacturing degree at a 2:1 or better
• 5 years plus experience in a similar role.
• An experienced LEAN practitioner with a full six sigma toolset
• Good understanding of electrical and mechanical engineering principles
• An enthusiasm for manufacturing processes

Great to have?

• Experience in a high technology manufacturing or assembly business.
• A full UK driving license to make it easier for you to visit suppliers.
• A vision for how modern manufacturing should be.
• Ability to analyse mechanical/electronic designs to suggest improvements to performance or manufacturability.
• Ability to gather and interpret information from multiple database sources, to analyse data and present conclusions.
• SAP or a similar ERP system experience.
• PLM and ECN system experience.
• 3D Mechanical CAD or PCB design abilities.
• Experience of manufacturing transfer.
• Driven both to deliver results for our customers and to develop yourself.
• Quality informed decision-making skills.

Your work environment?

Flexitime of 37.5 hours per week with core hours 10.00am - 12.00pm and 2.00pm - 3.00pm. Hybrid working opportunities although predominantly based on our Malvern site to support our production team.

Occasional travel.

Your career will take flight with a comprehensive induction program. They continue to support and develop their employees by improving their skills, knowledge, and performance with inhouse, on-the-job, and external training.

By building a culture of respect and appreciation, they give everyone who works there the opportunity to realise their full potential.

This is an employer of choice, growing and at the forefront of their market - if you may be interested in this opportunity, apply now with your CV for immediate consideration.