Production Engineer
Full-time Permanent – Days, half day Friday
Up to £40k DOE + 15% bonus
Gloucester parking
A leading global manufacturer are seeking a production engineer to join their team due to retirement. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual to join an award winning business.
The Role:
- Planning, developing and implementing manufacturing systems and processes
- Verify manufacturing processes are fit for purpose and achieving quality and performance targets
- Writing work instructions, quality standards and manufacturing procedures
- Specifying plant and equipment requirements for jobs
- Working to health, safety, and environmental requirements, including conducting risk assessments
- Identifying and investigating process improvement opportunities
- Providing day-to-day support to the production line processes
- Root-cause identification of faults, defects and process issues
- Propose, evaluate and implement improvement projects to provide cost savings in areas such as material, machine and manpower efficiency and "Cost of Poor Quality"
- Relationship management of plant and equipment suppliers
- Issuing relevant permits to work to subcontractors for onsite activities
- Supporting to other areas as and when required
- Working in line with requirements of quality, health and safety, and environmental management systems
The Person:
- Degree qualified in a Chemical or Mechanical Engineering Discipline or relevant experience
- Background in busy manufacturing environment
- Understanding of Lean manufacturing
- Continuous Improvement knowledge
- Strong planning, organisational and administrative skills
- Collaborative team working skills
- Advantageous – experience of the following material mixing processes/machine centres/some automation/ Laminating processes/Injection moulding
The Benefits:
- Annual bonus scheme - up to 15% of salary
- 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Enhanced pension contributions (6%)
- Life insurance 4x annual salary
- Access to well-being programme
- Join an award winning, global business
- Cycle to work scheme
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