Manufacturing Engineer

Job Description

A Division of Wabtec UK Ltd, Northampton-based firm Bearward Engineering manufactures radiators for the power generation industry and is currently recruiting for a Manufacturing Engineer.

Manufacturing Engineer

£Competitive

Northampton, (NN4 8HJ
)

Monday to Thursday, 08:00am to 16:30pm, and Friday 08:00am to 15:30pm

Permanent, Full-Time

As a member of the Manufacturing engineering team, you will be working with Operations to support the manufacturing areas by developing, verifying, and validating new and existing processes to ensure that we can service heat transfer and engine cooling market.

• Control of process documentation, PFMEAs, Control plan’s, Process instruction’s, etc.
• Review current processes to ensure that they are safe, cost effective and can deliver product to the required specification.
• The introduction of any new process in line with the company change management system, ensuring that all documents and equipment are available, and that training has been provided to the production staff on the use of any jigs and fixtures.
• Work with the Team leaders to monitor and interrogate KPI's assisting with continuous improvement projects to sustain and improve them.
• Resolve manufacturing problems using data and root cause analysis tools.
• Implement lean manufacturing and kaizen principles throughout the manufacturing processes.
• Determine production times, resource requirements and costs.
• Recommend and assist in design of required tooling and jigs.
• Work with the maintenance department to ensure that production equipment is properly maintained.

• Relevant manufacturing/engineering degree preferred, A Levels, ONC, City & Guilds level 3, BTEC National Diploma Level 3, IVQ Technician Diploma, or equivalent NVQ level 3 qualification.
• Experience with FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis), Kaizen/A3 (continuous improvement and problem solving) process improvement, and Poka Yoke (error proofing) techniques.
• Understanding of design and production costs including waste, downtime, scrap, and rework.
• Proven experience in the use of lean tools and techniques, with strong problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of the use and control of business metrics (OEE, COPQ, DLE, TAKT, Cycle Times, etc.)
• Proven project management skills.

If you don’t have all the above criteria don’t worry, we would still like to hear from you as we live our values always put people first, and strive to expand what is possible.

Legal authorisation to work in the UK is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or future, for this job opening.

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