Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Our client is a well-established, fast growing European market-leading specialist in sustainable manufacturing services and partner to major OEMs, such as Ford, JLR and many others. They are an entrepreneurial business who, due to on-going expansion, are committed to driving continuous improvement and strategic development throughout the business and now wish to appoint a new Senior Manufacturing Engineer. Due to the nature of their work supplying to OEMs, they are compliant with the highest quality standards, meaning it is a "best practice" environment, yet it is a smaller, more entrepreneurial company, making this a unique place to gain a very broad set of skills, commercial, customer facing, technical and true engineering-based problem solving.

They pride themselves on mentoring and developing their people and it is a culture in which, whilst supported, you will be expected to take ownership, making decisions and being autonomous.

In this role you will:

• Make improvements to efficiency throughout the factory through the following:
• Factory and process line re-layouts
• Line Balancing exercises
• Improving production tooling, fixturing and other equipment
• Use the collection and analysis of data to focus process improvements
• Manage a variety of engineering activities for current production programs to ensure compliance to customer specific and business requirements.
• Determine the root cause of problems, implementing permanent corrective actions

You will have a clear vision for best practice, a focus in making sustainable change in the pursuit of efficiency and proven experience of implementing Lean (or similar) into a Manufacturing facility. In the role, you will become the subject matter expert within your field and take responsibility for on-going process development, supporting new product introduction (NPI) and change management within production.

They have won a significant new contract and have others due to land in the near future, offering the right person, a real opportunity to add value.

Required experience

• lean or another similar methodology
• excellent practical engineering knowledge
• making savings throughout production facilities
• factory layout optimisation
• designing simple tools & components, supporting with accurate drawings, and co-ordinating & overseeing their manufacture.
• compiling and maintaining Bills of Material and other ERP system data.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly developing business in a high profile role and will undoubtedly offer the successful applicant an on-going opportunity for personal career development. If you are interested in hearing more, please contact Camilla Clark at Rockfield Specialist Recruitment or apply now on line.