Manufacturing Engineer CNC

The Vacancy

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer- CNC

Career Level: 4 – Advanced Research Engineer

Department or Business Sector: Workshop

Location: Coventry

Job Type: Permanent

Start Date: As soon as possible

Working hours: 36 Hours per week (4 Day week and WFH available)

Salary & Benefits: Competitive salary. Benefits include private medical, 2x pension contribution, electric lease car scheme, cycle to work scheme, 20 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and more.

The MTC is a well-respected and admired organisation that is home to some of the brightest minds in engineering that work with cutting edge technology to drive innovation. We work alongside 100s of industrial clients across a range of sectors including automotive, aerospace, rail, informatics, food & drink, construction/civil engineering, electronics, oil & gas and defence. We help our clients to advance their technological and engineering capabilities in order to improve their business efficiency, capability and competitiveness.

We help to bridge the gap between academia and industry by proving new ideas in an agile setting. We have a range of engineering capabilities covering Research & Development, Advanced Manufacturing Management, Factory Design and Training. Often referred to as one of the ‘Best kept secret’, our rapid expansion and growth is making us more and more in demand. Being supported by one of the largest public sector investments in UK manufacturing, we have locations in Ansty Park in Coventry, Liverpool and Oxford.

This role is for a Manufacturing Engineer with a strong focus on CNC machining. You will create, develop and validate manufacturing/inspection processes to support the MTC's projects that are delivered across a broad range of technology areas and industrial sectors.

As a Manufacturing Engineer this role:

• Drives improvements in Manufacturing Engineering processes, ensuring machining-related workflows, tooling strategies, digital methods and verification techniques are robust, efficient and aligned with stakeholder needs.
• Delivers to customer and project needs largely independently, particularly where complex CNC machining, prove-out or first off development is involved. Managing expectations, risks and technical decisions to deliver high quality outputs within agreed budgets and timescales.
• Supports the execution of the Manufacturing Engineering Strategy with specific input into CNC capability development, technology roadmap, and team skills alignment.
• Works with design teams to execute effective design for manufacture/inspection, advising particularly on CNC manufacturability, fixture concepts, tolerancing, and machining strategy to meet project milestones.
• Develops and validates CNC and broader manufacturing/inspection processes, working closely with engineering teams and external stakeholders to ensure repeatability, accuracy, safety and efficiency.
• Creates high quality manufacturing documentation, including machining methods and sequences, work instructions, toolpath strategy notes, PFMEAs, inspection/control plans, setup sheets and technical reports.
• Coordinates procurement of CNC tooling, fixturing, materials and gauges, ensuring all resources required for machining activities are available to schedule.
• Owns and drives the resolution of manufacturing issues, particularly complex machining challenges, ensuring robust, sustainable solutions are implemented and customer requirements are met wherever possible.
• Leads continuous improvement of manufacturing processes.

• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills are required for the role; able to demonstrate a high standard of report writing and presentation skills.
• Able to support senior colleagues with customer and internal partner liaison in collaborative projects, able to lead technical liaison with customers (both technical and non-technical customers) during project to ensure delivery.
• Strong commercial awareness and familiarity working within a project based environment.
• Attend and provide manufacturing engineering inputs to project meetings – weekly mtg, workshops, assurance activities, design reviews.
• Communicate and escape manufacturing/assembly issues to the project teams/clients.

• Support the ongoing development of MTCs manufacturing engineering capability through bringing best practice manufacturing engineering techniques into our operations.
• Enable innovative designs to be realised through providing manufacturing advice, process development and…