Senior Industrial Engineer

Senior Industrial Engineer

Raytheon UK is a powerhouse in defence and aerospace, delivering advanced systems and services for military and commercial clients. We collaborate with industry experts and foster innovation across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. This role offers an opportunity to grow your skills and make a real‑world impact within a dynamic team.

• Develop innovative solutions for new products or processes and contribute to strategic roadmaps focused on factory capacity and investments, including infrastructure improvement, expansion proposals, and integration of new products, technologies, and equipment.

• Support the development of new projects, technologies, or business opportunities.

• Analyze manufacturing system performance to identify improvement opportunities using Industrial Engineering tools, techniques, and methods.

• Determine equipment, facilities, and support requirements for new products, equipment, or processes.

• Create detailed factory and line layouts in AutoCAD and support planning, costing, and implementation of new or changed areas.

• Optimize assembly lines through workflow analysis, time and motion studies, ergonomics, and human‑factors analysis.

• Prepare technical reports, presentations, and information to support projects.

• Provide analysis of current or future requirements using simulation tools, value stream mapping, data analysis, PFMEA, Lean Manufacturing, and Six Sigma principles.

• Collaborate with engineering and design groups to ensure product producibility and effective transition to manufacture.

• Estimate labour for electronic, cable, or mechanical assemblies.

• Contribute to factory safety and work‑cell ergonomics.

• Degree in an engineering science (Industrial Engineering, Electronics, Mechanical, Manufacturing Systems Engineering) or equivalent experience.

• PC literacy in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project).

• Proficient use of AutoCAD and/or simulation modelling tools.

• Strong mathematical and statistical analysis skills (SPC, modelling, queuing theory, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing).

• Ability to represent Raytheon at all levels for internal and external customers.

• Deep understanding of key cost drivers in the set‑up, development, or support of projects, products, and manufacturing processes.

• Extensive Industrial Engineering experience and mastery of tools, techniques, and methods.

• Experience developing new processes, areas, or expansions including planning, costing, and implementation.

• Rapid creation of detailed information and effective presentation at customer and management levels.

• Knowledge of SMT, units, box build, site facilitation, supply chain requirements, and material handling.

• Leadership or mentoring experience for other engineers or projects.

• Familiarity with simulation tools such as Witness or similar.

• Competitive salaries.

• 25 days holiday plus statutory public holidays, with option to buy/sell up to 5 days (37h).

• Contributory pension scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).

• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).

• Life assurance of six times salary with pension.

• Flexible benefits scheme with salary sacrifice options (Health Cashplan, Dental, Cycle to Work).

• Enhanced sick pay.

• Family‑friendly policies: enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave.

• 37‑hour working week; hours may vary by role, requirement, or site.

• Remote, hybrid, and site‑based working options available, depending on role and personal needs.

• Flexible working culture focused on output, not time at desk; formal arrangements can be requested.

• Up to 5 paid voluntary days each year.

Successful candidates must be permanent UK residents and must complete a baseline (BPSS) security and background check.

All qualified applicants will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.