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Manufacturing Engineer

Employer
Undisclosed Company
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
27 Feb 2019

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Sector
Engineering
Job Type
Permanent
Hours
Full-time

Manufacturing Engineer

A vacancy exists for a Manufacturing Engineer to provide support to Production, Purchasing and Commercial departments. The focus of the role will be hands on support within a manufacturing cell in our operations business unit. The successful candidate can also expect to spend 20-30% of their time supporting projects for new products. The product is manufactured in low to medium volumes for Aerospace and Defence customers.

Main duties will include:

  • Provide & support Continuous Improvement (CI) manufacturing solutions to reduce build time, improve yield & quality both internally and within the supply chain.
  • Specify & design new production tooling and assembly aids within 3D CAD environment and perform tooling trials. Manage maintenance & repair of existing tooling.
  • Specify, install & purchase test equipment, machinery & hand tooling for the cell.
  • Create & maintain Manufacturing Instructions (Layouts) and Route Cards to ensure good product quality and repeatability in production.
  • Set up the manufacturing area & ERP system (BOMs, Routings and Work Centers) to optimise manufacture flow.

Additional duties will include:

  • Support PFMEA, DFMAIT and perform first build activity for new projects.
  • Provide a technical input to product & test equipment fault finding and diagnostics.
  • Provide support on Lean activates such as value stream mapping, standard work, 5S and Kanban.

Candidate attributes for this role will include:

- Electro-Mechanical engineering experience with an engineering based qualification in an appropriate technical discipline.

- 5 years or more working in a manufacturing support role, with a minimum 2 years' experience of tooling specification or design within a 3D CAD environment.

- Awareness of AS9100 Aerospace Quality systems.

- Excellent communication skills at all levels and good commercial awareness.

Experience of any of the following would be a distinct advantage:

- High-pressure systems or components.

- Military or civil aviation harnessing.

- Complex electronic box build assemblies.

- 3D CAD - Siemens NX, Creo, CATIA or similar

- IFS - MRP system

- Electronic Document Management System - Teamcenter

- MK Systems - AutoMeg

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