Production Engineer

Love making things better, faster and safer? Our client is a global manufacturing business, they are currently seeking an experienced Production Engineer to make real gains across manufacturing and logistics, lifting performance on Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost. You'll join their Improvement Engineering team, reporting to the Senior Improvement Engineer, and work hand in hand with Manufacturing, Warehousing, Quality and NPI.

If you enjoy digging into a problem, finding the root cause and seeing your solution make a difference on the shop floor, this role is for you.

• Identifying improvement opportunities across the site's operational activities using formal Lean and C.I. tools
• Using root cause analysis and structured problem solving to develop effective countermeasures
• Developing existing equipment and processes, and introducing new technologies to improve manufacturing
• Designing and developing tooling that improves the quality and efficiency of how we build our products
• Developing and implementing engineering changes within ISO 13485 medical device controls
• Keeping work instructions and drawings accurate and up to date
• Providing hands-on engineering support to production
• Collaborating with teams right across the business to get improvements adopted and sustained

• Engineering HNC or higher
• Formal Lean/C.I. training
• A minimum of 5 years in a manufacturing and engineering environment, delivering improvements using formal root cause analysis and other C.I. tools
• Experience delivering improvements in an assembly manufacturing environment

Innovative, methodical and curious. You bring fresh thinking and technology to boost productivity, and you back it up with solid data and proper C.I. tools. You work well with people at every level and take pride in doing the right thing, safely and to the highest quality standards.

Salary: £45 - 50k, full time permanent, plenty of scope for career progression.