Our client is a well-established, fast growing European market-leading specialist in sustainable manufacturing services and partner to major OEMs, such as Ford, JLR and many others. They are an entrepreneurial business who, due to on-going expansion, are committed to driving continuous improvement and strategic development throughout the business and now wish to appoint a new Senior Manufacturing Engineer. Due to the nature of their work supplying to OEMs, they are compliant with the highest quality standards, meaning it is a "best practice" environment, yet it is a smaller, more entrepreneurial company, making this a unique place to gain a very broad set of skills, commercial, customer facing, technical and true engineering-based problem solving. They pride themselves on mentoring and developing their people and it is a culture in which, whilst supported, you will be expected to take ownership, making decisions and being autonomous.
In this role you will:
- Make improvements to efficiency throughout the factory through the following:
- Factory and process line re-layouts
- Line Balancing exercises
- Improving production tooling, fixturing and other equipment
- Use the collection and analysis of data to focus process improvements
- Manage a variety of engineering activities for current production programs to ensure compliance to customer specific and business requirements.
- Determine the root cause of problems, implementing permanent corrective actions
You will have a clear vision for best practice, a focus in making sustainable change in the pursuit of efficiency and proven experience of implementing Lean (or similar) into a Manufacturing facility. In the role, you will become the subject matter expert within your field and take responsibility for on-going process development, supporting new product introduction (NPI) and change management within production. They have won a significant new contract and have others due to land in the near future, offering the right person, a real opportunity to add value.
Required experience
- lean or another similar methodology
- excellent practical engineering knowledge
- making savings throughout production facilities
- factory layout optimisation
- designing simple tools & components, supporting with accurate drawings, and co-ordinating & overseeing their manufacture.
- compiling and maintaining Bills of Material and other ERP system data.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly developing business in a high profile role and will undoubtedly offer the successful applicant an on-going opportunity for personal career development. If you are interested in hearing more, please contact Camilla Clark at Rockfield Specialist Recruitment or apply now on line.