Manufacturing Engineer; Manufacturing Engineer-General

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Boeing Defence UK (BDUK) is a subsidiary of the Boeing Company and currently employs over 1,400 people in the UK. We are responsible for delivering several exciting contracts to our UK defence customers including new capabilities like the E-7 AEW&C and the P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft, Autonomous Systems, C4

ISR Services, Support for the Chinook & Apache Fleets, Logistic Information Services and Training Services and are very much in a growth phase.

As a BDUK employee, you will have access to flexible and virtual working arrangements, benefits packages, employee incentive programmes and study assistance, as well as the potential for international travel. You will also have access to many resources that you will be able to access in order to inform and support your development throughout your career with us.

Our programmes of comprise of several service lines (i.e. work streams) spanning communications systems, mission systems and platform integration as well as associated support elements. We require a manufacturing Engineer to join us to play a key part in the team responsible for delivering elements of capability and development, including product development and testing, mission support systems and training devices. The roles are fundamental in translating customer needs/requirements into appropriate solutions and will require the successful candidate to work in multidisciplinary teams to both generate proposals and develop deliverable solutions.

Our programmes are internationally run, with key partners being Boeing Defence, Space and Security, based in the USA, and Boeing Defence Australia. You will be part of our ongoing collaboration with these business units, and this provides opportunities for travel for short- or longer-term periods.

While we work in agile and dynamic engineering environments, your wellbeing is important to us and we strive to find a healthy life balance and ethical team culture with a strong emphasis on openness, collaboration, innovation, safety and first-time quality.

The Manufacturing Engineer (Level
3) role provides ownership and accountability of the creation/ maintenance of electronic work packages for each Maintenance Input, Repair or Modification using Gold ESP MRO tool in accordance with PT145 and BDUK/ Boeing policy and processes supporting our existing Manufacturing Planners and Engineers. Building upon this as the program progresses further into sustainment the Manufacturing Engineer shall be responsible in supporting the Pt 145 and wider BDUK with Tooling, Supply chain queries and shop floor activities that improve the overall maintenance output.

This role is to support BDUK’s delivery of Maintenance and Modification support of the UK E7 Wedgetail Mk1 AEW&C Aircraft based at RAF Lossiemouth.

Key Tasks include:

• Authors technical work instructions to approved process & regulatory requirements, writing, editing & proof-reading text, collating & verifying technical /engineering information, creating and editing bespoke work instructions.
• Interprets multiple source formats of approved engineering data from Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), Design Organisation, or Applicable Customer controlled Maintenance data sources in order to produce a standardised, easy to use & logical set of production/manufacturing plans with consideration of regulatory requirements for accurate maintenance recording.
• Supports the creation, receipt and delivery of multiple complex electronic manufacturing…