Manufacturing Engineer
Posted Today by Quest Global
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Manufacturing Engineer - Casting and Machining Specialist at Quest Global is responsible for developing and optimizing casting processes for aerospace components, ensuring production stability and quality. The role involves validating machining operations, troubleshooting process issues, and collaborating with suppliers to enhance manufacturing capabilities. This position requires a strong understanding of engineering drawings, GD&T, and aerospace standards. It is a hybrid role based in the United Kingdom with a contract duration of 12 months, classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develops and optimizes casting processes to ensure stable production, high yield, and metallurgical conformity for blades and vanes.
- Validates machining operations by defining cutting parameters, tooling strategies, and process controls for consistent dimensional accuracy.
- Leads FAI and process qualification activities such as PFMEA, control plans, capability studies, and run-at-rate to ensure manufacturing readiness.
- Troubleshoots process issues across casting and machining to eliminate defects, reduce variation, and improve first-time-right performance.
- Collaborates with suppliers to resolve casting or machining problems and enhance process capability throughout the supply chain.
- Ensures compliance to aerospace standards by maintaining robust processes aligned with quality, special process, and configuration requirements.
Key Skills:
- Good knowledge of various manufacturing processes.
- Fully conversant in reading and understanding Engineering & Manufacturing Drawings.
- Sound knowledge interpreting GD&T (standards ASME Y 14.5, JES 161).
- Sound knowledge in measurements system analysis (MSA).
- Hands-on experience in using all types of measuring & testing equipment, both contact non-contact, analogue & digital.
- Able to support root cause analysis and implementation of problem-solving techniques like 8D.
- Working knowledge and experience of using QC tools and SPC analysis.
- Hands-on experience of working in CFTs for creation of PFMEA and control plans.
- Working knowledge on concessions, containment procedures, and traceability techniques.
- Sound knowledge and experience of working on FAIR, APQP, PPAP.
- Awareness of aerospace requirements (AS9100, various ISO).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
At Quest Global , we are hiring Manufacturing Engineer- Casting and Machining Specialist for one of our aerospace customers based at United Kingdom
Manufacturing Engineer- Casting and Machining Specialist
United Kingdom
12 months (Rollable contract - Outside IR35)
Hybrid role
Job Requirements
- Develops and optimizes casting processes to ensure stable production, high yield, and metallurgical conformity for blades and vanes.
- Validates machining operations by defining cutting parameters, tooling strategies, and process controls for consistent dimensional accuracy.
- Good Knowledge of Casting and machining process of turbine blade and vanes
- Leads FAIr and process qualification activities such as PFMEA, control plans, capability studies, and run-at-rate to ensure manufacturing readiness.
- Troubleshoots process issues across casting and machining to eliminate defects, reduce variation, and improve first-time-right performance.
- Collaborates with suppliers to resolve casting or machining problems and enhance process capability throughout the supply chain.
- Ensures compliance to aerospace standards by maintaining robust processes aligned with quality, special process, and configuration requirements.
Work Experience
- Good knowledge on various manufacturing processes
- Fully conversant in reading and understanding Engineering & Manufacturing Drawings
- Sound knowledge interpreting the GD&T (standards ASME Y 14.5, JES 161)
- Sound knowledge in measurements system analysis (MSA)
- Hands on experience in using all types of measuring & testing equipment, both contact non-contact, analogue & digital
- Able to support root cause analysis and implementation of problem solving techniques like 8D
- Working knowledge and experience of using QC tools and SPC analysis
- Hands on experience of working in CFTs for creation of PFMEA and control plans
- Working knowledge on concessions, containment procedures and traceability techniques
- Sound knowledge and experience of working on FAIR, APQP, PPAP
- Awareness of aerospace requirements (AS9100, various ISO)
About Quest Global
We are Quest Global. We’re in the business of engineering, but what we’re really building is a brighter future. It’s not just what we do, but why we do it that makes us different. We believe engineering has the unique opportunity to solve the problems of today that stand in the way of tomorrow. For more than 25 years, we have strived to be the most trusted partner for the world’s hardest engineering problems. As a global organization headquartered in Singapore, we live and work in 18 countries, with 93 global delivery centers and offices, driven by 21,000+ extraordinary employees who make the impossible possible every day. Quest Global delivers world-class end-to-end engineering solutions by leveraging our deep industry knowledge and digital expertise. By bringing together technologies and industries, alongside the contributions of diverse individuals and their areas of expertise, we are able to solve problems better, faster. This multi-dimensional approach enables us to solve the most critical and large-scale challenges across the aerospace & defense, automotive, energy, hi-tech, healthcare, medical devices, rail and semiconductor industries.
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