Manufacturing Engineer
Posted 3 days ago by Morson Edge
Negotiable
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Basildon
Summary: The Manufacturing Engineer role at Morson Talent involves supporting the transition of new products from design to production for a leading Aerospace client in Basildon. The position requires developing manufacturing processes, providing technical advice, and improving operational efficiency while collaborating with cross-functional teams. The engineer will also mentor junior team members and ensure compliance with government regulations. This role is critical in enhancing production capabilities and maintaining product quality in defense electronics.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop manufacturing processes by studying product requirements and modifying manufacturing methods and equipment.
- Prepare and organize Manufacturing Maturity Reviews and maintain governance through the Lifecycle Management process.
- Provide manufacturing decision-making information and resolution proposals by reviewing production schedules and costs.
- Resolve complex product and production issues on the shop floor.
- Improve manufacturing efficiency through capacity analysis and workflow planning.
- Review manufacturing documentation and contribute to risk assessments and technical reports.
- Assure product and process quality through validation and verification of process capabilities.
- Contribute to failure investigations and assure manufacturing data accuracy.
- Identify continuous improvement activities and complete development projects.
- Promote best practice sharing and mentor junior team members.
- Maintain product and company reputation by complying with government regulations.
Key Skills:
- Degree in relevant engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
- In-depth understanding of manufacturing processes and principles.
- Ability to influence and negotiate using data and analysis.
- Understanding of operational frameworks and business processes.
- Ability to take ownership of work packages and plan workloads.
- Knowledge of multiple phases of the Product Life Cycle.
- Experience in peer reviewing work within product teams.
- Knowledge of risk/reward processes associated with engineering activities.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts in a non-technical way.
- Confidence to challenge technical/process issues.
- Effective interaction with customers and suppliers.
- Experience in capability and process development.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Basildon
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Morson Talent are currently recruiting for a Manufacturing Engineer to work on the behalf of one of our reputable Aerospace clients based in Basildon.
You will be part of the Integrated Sensing and Protection line of business, which is a leader in delivering defence electronics, mission critical systems for situational awareness, electronic warfare, communications and surveillance across the land, air and sea domains.
As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will have the opportunity to build cross-functional relationships and be a positive influence within the project teams to support the future of the business and affect the production process.
What you’ll do as a Manufacturing Engineer
In this role, you will be responsible for developing robust solutions to ensure the smooth transition of our new products from design into production. You will be expected to plan and deliver your own work, across medium term planning horizons and provide complex technical advice to both internal and external customers. As a Manufacturing Engineer you will join the team to develop, improve and support the operations manufacturing processes and equipment enabling world class production of client products.
Typical Accountabilities & activities will include:
- Developing manufacturing processes by studying product requirements researching, designing, modifying, and testing manufacturing methods and equipment understanding feedback from the client operators, conferring with equipment vendors or external suppliers
- To prepare for and organise Manufacturing Maturity Reviews, maintain governance through the Lifecycle Management process and create / contribute / review and/or lead Manufacturing Plans
- Provide manufacturing decision-making information with resolution proposals by o reviewing production schedules reviewing production labor and material costs estimating future requirements
- prepare product and process reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing information and trends
- Ability to resolve complex product and/or production issues & constraints (relieving bottlenecks) on shop floor reacting efficiently to escalation from manufacturing teams
- Improve manufacturing efficiency by capacity analysis, simulation planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout
- Review manufacturing documentation, can include input to process specific risk assessments, COSHH data, technical reports, specification
- Assure product and process quality by designing methods validation/verification of process capabilities establishing standards confirming manufacturing processes
- Contribute to failure investigations to know problem-solving techniques (e.g. 8D)
- Assure manufacturing data i.e. routings, production plans, control plans and electronic work instructions
- Identifying continuous improvement activities to develop skills and competencies within Manufacturing Engineering
- Complete improvement and development projects by training and interacting with the organisations’ manufacturing engineer community
- Promoting a culture of best practice sharing and knowledge exploitation
- Mentor, coach and develop more junior members of the team in order to develop overall capability
- Providing domain experience in support of customer and user engagement and product road maps
- Maintain product and company reputation by complying with government regulations
What we need from you:
- Degree in relevant engineering discipline or equivalent experience in role.
- In depth understanding of manufacturing processes and principles
- Ability to influence and negotiate with others using data and analysis to support line of reasoning
- A detailed understanding of the operational framework and business processes
- An understanding of cross functional / commercial business processes and their own impact
- Ability to take ownership of a work package planning and scheduling own workload and the work of others
- Operational understanding of project work and how the work of the team impacts upon other project activities
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience of multiple phases of the Product Life Cycle and the associated processes
- Experience of peer reviewing the work of others inside a product team and within a sub Engineering Unit and ensuring the resulting actions are implemented
- Demonstrated knowledge of the risk / reward process associated with engineering activity informing the activities of a product team and own sub-engineering unit
- Ability to communicate concepts in a non-technical way
- Confidence and ability to challenge / respond to technical / process issues
- Ability to interact effectively with customers and suppliers
- Been involved in capability and / or process development, demonstrating an ability to implement a change to working practices
It would be nice if you had
- Experience developing manufacturing capability and understanding of Industry 4.0 / Smart factory principles
You must be eligible for full security clearance.
Ongoing contract 37 hours per week
If you have the required experience for this position, please apply today or contact Lisa Nardiello on (phone number removed) for further information.