Senior Manufacturing Engineer

About the Role

Are you an experienced engineering leader who is passionate about driving operational excellence and continuous improvement? Reporting to the Head of Operations, this is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop our Manufacturing Engineering and Operations teams, delivering innovative engineering solutions that enhance productivity, quality, and performance. Combining strong technical knowledge of mechanical design and materials with a hands‑on leadership approach, you'll champion a culture of continuous improvement, support the development of your team, and play a pivotal role in shaping the future success of our manufacturing operations.

• Proactively promote a safety first, positive and collaborative team culture
• Support risk assessments as necessary, providing technical guidance
• Lead HSE investigations to ensure safe working environment
• Ensure all new tooling, equipment and processes brought into the business meet compliance at all stages of development to production use

• Ensure manufacturing readiness of existing product lines, providing resourcing plans where threshold not met
• Develop and enhance training packages for production needs
• Support the MRB process to minimise cost and maximise improvement in first pass yield
• Design replacement tooling with a fast turnaround to minimise production downtime
• Conduct DOE to optimise processes with yield, capability and cycle time at the core
• Utilise PFMEA, control plans and SPC to standardise output
• Act as SME representing the company in discussions with suppliers

• Design processes to be safe from introduction ensuring minimised waste
• Ensure appropriate documentation is in place before handover to production
• Validate processes to ensure process repeatability implementing relevant control measures to maintain consistent standards
• Lead from concept to handover ensuring all measures of SQDC are considered prior to project kick off and ensuring delivery to standard
• Conduct FAT and SAT to ensure right first time for introduction

• Provide mentorship, coaching and technical support to fellow Manufacturing Engineers
• Lead process improvement reviews, providing constructive feedback for right first time
• Develop and implement improvements for maximum efficiency in Manufacturing Engineering workflows
• Provide design guidance in relation to tooling and processing equipment

• Provide mentorship, coaching and technical support to fellow Manufacturing Engineers
• Lead process improvement reviews, providing constructive feedback for right first time
• Develop and implement improvements for maximum efficiency in Manufacturing Engineering workflows
• Provide design guidance in relation to tooling and processing equipment

• Assist and inform Design Engineering to ensure effectiveness of new products
• Champion Design for Manufacture within every new product to ensure high quality manufacturing at all stages resulting in high yields
• Review and create effective testing strategies within the process to ensure quality is designed in from conception
• Provide alternative solutions to testing to ensure repeatability and reliability is in place for production processing
• Undertake process development of early designs as required to inform prototype design iterations
• Attend critical project and design reviews
• Provide technical guidance to project managers on technical issues
• Work with production to ensure effective buy in
• Champion Continuous improvement through providing data driven ideas for cost and delivery improvements
• Produce data backed Capital Expense plans driving technological advancement and capacity expansion
• Drive performance on maximizing…