Manufacturing Engineering Lead (FAL

In the role of Manufacturing Engineer Lead, you'll be responsible for leading a team of manufacturing engineers on our Final Assembly Line.

Ensuring product designs meet manufacturing and assembly requirements, you will have a solid knowledge and understanding of the new product introduction process and be working at a competent/ proficient level.

Here, you'll be responsible for more complex projects and will work closely with other functions of the business especially Production, design engineering and Industrialisation to ensure product designs meet manufacturing and assembly requirements and promote process improvements.

• Provide Engineering Support to the Final Assembly lines.
• Drive ME team to ensure design for assembly/manufacture issues are highlighted and eliminated at every key stage of the production. Lead lessons learnt sessions of previous Shipset issues at the beginning of projects
• Facilitate problem solving activities
• Eliminating non-value adding activities – continuous Improvement
• Manage operations configuration tracker
• Support production readiness reviews
• Assist with ergonomic workshops
• Promote and encourage teams on 5S and lean principles, ensure wastes are eliminated during the design of the production process and the team is trained in the application of lean methodology
• Manage APQP & PPAP documentation are compiled and released at the correct level of quality and on time
• Ensure PFMEAS are reviewed and all actions are closed
• Ensure tools and equipment requirements are identified and budgeted for and specification documents capture not just functional requirements but ergonomic and health and safety requirements
• Recognise the need to carry out a route cause analysis to resolve an issue. Organise the required team and ensure the process is duly carried out
• Ensure department's document are properly controlled and periodically reviewed to keep them up to date as well as compliance with the company's engineering change procedure
• Communicate effectively and professionally with customers and suppliers and ensure confidentiality of information is always maintained
• Line management responsibility for recruitment, induction for new employees, ongoing performance management, absence, coaching, mentoring, and giving feedback / recognition and support for wellbeing
• Carry out periodic performance development reviews (PDR's) of team members supporting employees with their professional development to achieve their career aspirations
• Encourage a culture of continuous improvement within the team
• Coach and mentor younger engineers
• Identify tooling and equipment requirements for new processes and write specification documents that will be used as basis for supplier quotation. Work with suppliers to ensure requirements are met
• Check and approve engineering drawings ensuring effect of tolerances on the assembly process is taken into consideration and process ECR's
• Communicate effectively and professionally with customers and suppliers and ensure confidentiality of information is always maintained