Manufacturing Project Engineer

Manufacturing Project Engineer

Flexi time. Finish at 12:00 on Friday. Role is focused around NPI projects, supporting customers from concept through to production. The position offers flexibility with a 7:00–15:30 Monday–Thursday schedule and early finish on Fridays.

Location:

Nottingham, Ilkeston, Long Eaton, Hucknall, Heanor region.

Industry: Mechanical precision components into Medical and pharma manufacturing / engineering (plus aerospace, semiconductor and highly regulated industries). The company has a £18m turnover and operates as an agile manufacturing enterprise.

• Full responsibility for planning, implementing, and coordinating customers' new product introduction to ensure smooth delivery from project initiation to start of production.
• Support NPI by ensuring correct procedures are followed through development and release to production, meeting cost, quality, manufacturability, process capability, and delivery standards for a successful launch.
• Oversee defined work packages, including detailed instructions, drawings, bills of material, references, and inspection requirements.
• Apply problem definition, root cause analysis, problem‑solving techniques and failure analysis to maintain high standards of NPI delivery.
• Develop, oversee, and seek continuous improvement of the NPI process, including conducting lessons‑learnt workshops.
• Provide technical and engineering support for customers and internal teams.
• Take full responsibility for project planning, implementation and process documentation.

• Excellent project management skills.
• Proven expertise in manufacturing processes, lean manufacturing and ISO standards.
• Ability to identify and deliver improvements to the manufacturing process in a structured and controlled manner.
• Strong IT literacy skills (MS Project software).
• Ability to present information to audiences of differing skill levels.
• Experience training and developing people or a strong willingness to learn.
• Exposure to highly regulated sectors (aerospace, oil & gas, nuclear, medical, pharmaceutical, automotive) would be beneficial.
• Experience in a 150–200 headcount business, demonstrating an SME mentality and being a doer.

For more information, please contact Joe Parker at Euro Projects Recruitment.