Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Your Impact

We are looking for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join us at Leonardo in the Luton Manufacturing Engineering Team. You will be part of the Manufacturing Operations business unit, 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.

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer you will be responsible for the smooth transition of our new products from design into manufacture and will lead the front‑end manufacturing engineering activities, from providing DFx input (primarily Design for Manufacturing, Assembly & Test) into the design, to solving production capability issues.

Your role includes developing manufacturing processes by studying product requirements; researching, designing, modifying, and testing manufacturing methods and equipment; understanding feedback from Leonardo operators; conferring with equipment vendors or external suppliers.

• Participate and support Manufacturing Maturity Reviews, maintain governance through Lifecycle Management process and create/contribute Manufacturing Plans.
• Provide manufacturing decision‑making information to aid reviewing production schedules, reviewing production labor and material costs, estimating future requirements.
• Prepare product and process reports by collecting, analysing, and summarising information and trends.
• Resolve routine and some complex product and/or production issues & constraints, relieving bottlenecks on the shop floor reacting efficiently to escalation from manufacturing teams.
• Improve manufacturing efficiency by participating in capacity analysis, simulation planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout.

• HND (or higher) in relevant engineering discipline or equivalent experience in role.
• Excellent solid practical knowledge of manufacturing processes and principles.
• Demonstrated experience in having own work peer reviewed and implementing resulting actions.
• Demonstrated knowledge of more than one phase of the Product Life Cycle and the associated discipline processes.

This role is subject to pre‑employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, which could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit

Primary

Location:

GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300

Contract Type:
Permanent

Hybrid Working:
Hybrid