Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Somerset

£45,000 - £60,000 + Excellent Benefits + 9 Day Fortnight

The Company

We are working on an exciting Senior Manufacturing Engineer role which offers a huge variety of interesting, challenging and diverse tasks across NPI, Process Improvement, customer liaison, supplier liaison and design for a forward thinking business in the circular economy space. Sound interesting? Read on

Our client employs 70 staff and is a specialist Automotive supplier working in partnership with OEM s to provide high-quality re-manufactured parts. After being established over 70 years ago they have been through modernisation in recent decades and are seeing huge year on year growth as they continue strengthening their relationship with one of the leading Automotive manufactures in the UK.

They are looking to recruit for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer with immediate effect.

The Role

The Senior Manufacturing Engineer will deal with a wide range of interesting and complex challenges in their role. They key facets for the role will be:

• New Product Introduction This will involve liaison with customers on new assemblies from initial customer meetings, through capability review, supplier development, prototype production right through to customer sign off and approvals on new assemblies.

• Maintenance of existing production programmes Identifying issues during assembly and analysis and problem solving to identify opportunities for improved process.

• Line Efficiency Gains Identifying bottlenecks in assembly and providing solutions typical problems you could be reviewing are tooling issues, inefficient line lay out, part availability at line or quality of process instruction documentation.

• Line Balancing Optimising flow of assembly lines for maximum efficiency

• Design of tooling Circa 20% of the role is spent on Solid Edge producing 3D models and manufacturing drawings for external manufacturing of tooling and work holding fixtures which consist of sheet metal and machined components

• Specifying out and buying new equipment needed for assembly lines.

The Candidate

To be successful in your application for this Senior Manufacturing Engineer role you will need:

• A practical approach to problem solving
• To be comfortable customer facing
• To have worked in either a manufacturing engineer, process engineer or NPI related role within an engineering or manufacturing setting.
• To be strong analysing data and information
• A desire to learn
• The business can support with training on CAD but any supporting CAD experience is a benefit.

The Benefits

For this Senior Manfacturing Engineer role you will receive:

• £45,000 - £60,000 basic salary dependant upon experience

• A nine day fortnight the business works Monday Thursday every other week.

• The opportunity to work for a department head with a huge passion for the role and over 10 years with the business

If you are interested in applying for this Senior Manufacturing Engineer role please send your CV to Stewart Jackson at (url removed)

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