Manufacturing Engineer
Posted 1 week ago by Meritus Talent
£43 Per hour
Inside
Undetermined
Farnborough, UK
Summary: The role of Senior Manufacturing Engineer involves working within the Space sector on satellite projects for an initial 9-month contract. The engineer will be responsible for enabling design intent into production systems for UAV platforms, focusing on safety, quality, cost, and time. Key tasks include designing production systems, creating shop floor instructions, and supporting procurement activities. The position requires collaboration with various teams to achieve production KPIs and continuous improvement goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and qualification of a HAPS production system using Manufacturing System Engineering tools and processes.
- Delivery of shop floor requirements to the HAPS Facilities Management team.
- Create/change MRP system shop floor routings/job card definitions/shop floor standard operating instructions (SOI's)/quality care cards.
- Technical dossiers and support to procurement activities, supply chain monitoring and Make v Buy decisions.
- Technical problem solving and support to production and supply chain.
- Application of APQP as appropriate.
- Perform Design For Manufacture (DFM)/Design To Cost (DTC) studies and provide input to design teams.
- Liaison with MGSE/Jig & Tools (Design, Manufacture, Calibration & Maintenance).
- Deriving and enabling production KPI's in conjunction with operations teams.
- Continuous Improvement of the production system in line with business targets.
- Enable Health and Safety target achievement.
- Enablement of the "Right First Time" Quality culture with associated business systems and feedback loops.
Key Skills:
- Experience within the Aerospace and/or Space industry.
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: Avionics, Assembly, Integration, and Test.
- Experience creating assembly process instructions.
- Experience creating ERP routings.
- Experience using RCCA methodology.
- Ability to work independently and within a team.
- Excellent communication skills.
- English to negotiation level.
- Experience with creating/editing BoMs.
- Experience using PLM and ERP tools (eg Arena and Microsoft Dynamics 365).
- Experience with the creation of test plans in an Avionics environment.
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry (CAA; Part G; Part J; etc).
Salary (Rate): £43.13 per hour
City: Farnborough
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Engineering
MERITUS are recruiting for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our client within the Space sector on an initial 9 month contract to work on interesting satellite projects.
SENIOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER - INSIDE IR35 - £43.13 PER HOUR - FARNBOROUGH - SPACE SECTOR - 9 MONTHS - 2 STAGE INTERVIEW PROCESS
As a key member of the Manufacturing Engineering Team, your main tasks and responsibilities will be to provide hands-on enablement of design intent into a production system for a UAV's platforms to Safety, Quality, Cost and Time through:
- Design and qualification of a HAPS production system using Manufacturing System Engineering tools and processes. (Cellular production approach, Lean Process flow, line balancing, capital investment items, factory layout, simulation).
- Delivery of shop floor requirements to the HAPS Facilities Management team.
- Create/change MRP system shop floor routings/job card definitions/shop floor standard operating instructions (SOI's)/quality care cards
- Technical dossiers and support to procurement activities, supply chain monitoring and Make v Buy decisions.
- Technical problem solving and support to production and supply chain.
- Application of APQP as appropriate
- Perform Design For Manufacture (DFM)/Design To Cost (DTC) studies and provide input to design teams
- Liaison with MGSE/Jig & Tools (Design, Manufacture, Calibration & Maintenance)
You will also be responsible for:
- Deriving and enabling production KPI's in conjunction with operations teams.
- Continuous Improvement of the production system in line with business targets
- Enable Health and Safety target achievement.
- Enablement of the "Right First Time" Quality culture with associated business systems and feedback loops
Experience and Qualifications:
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:
- Experience within the Aerospace and/or Space industry
- Experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Avionics
- Assembly, Integration, and Test
- Experience creating assembly process instructions.
- Experience creating ERP routings.
- Experience using RCCA methodology.
- Ability to work independently and within a team.
- Excellent communication skills.
- English to negotiation level.
The candidate will ideally have experience with the following:
- Experience with creating/editing BoMs.
- Experience using PLM and ERP tools (eg Arena and Microsoft Dynamics 365).
- Experience with the creation of test plans in an Avionics environment.
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry (CAA; Part G; Part J; etc)