Lead Manufacturing Engineer - Composites

Overview

Lead Manufacturing Engineer (Composites) – Omega, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a stand-out aerospace engineering business as a Lead Manufacturing Engineer in the development of aerospace components of a composite nature. As a Lead Manufacturing Engineer, you’ll need to possess both understanding of composites materials and their properties and also have a strong manufacturing background including process and manufacturability improvements. You’ll need to be able to demonstrate key experience with composite materials, with experience in carbon composites being highly desirable.

• Authoring and approving manufacturing processes and process specifications
• Lead on carbon composite and resin transfer molding processes (team of
  3)
• Be an engaging, supportive and motivational leader to a small but growing team of carbon composite manufacturing engineers
• Champion and, in some cases, lead root cause analysis activities across the manufacturing
• Creating and developing production techniques from raw material to finished product
• Review and be the responsible approver of manufacturing work instructions
• Provide training and support to manufacturing operatives to support changes in SOPs
• Establish control plans and data collection means to monitor, gate and analyse critical input variables at defined control points in the manufacturing process
• Be a key signatory and approver for business procedures and documentation
• Actively contribute to improvements in key manufacturing metrics such as Throughput, Yield, Cycle Time & Defects-Per-Unit

• Strong background in carbon composite manufacture, resin transfer molding and NDT techniques
• Experience in a manufacturing or engineering function
• An understanding of engineering statistics
• Influential to stakeholders at all levels
• Experience with CAD packages
• Knowledge of 3D printing from CAD and part production

For more information on this role, please contact Lee Powell on or send a copy of your CV to

Candidates who are currently a Manufacturing Engineer, Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Production Engineer, Production Manager, Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Manufacturing Team Leader, Continuous Improvement Engineer, Composite Designer, or Composite Research Engineer are encouraged to apply.

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• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Manufacturing, Engineering, and Production
• Industries:
  Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing, Defense and Space Manufacturing, and Space Research and Technology