Manufacturing Engineer
Clevedon

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the manufacturing system within the allocated manufacturing cells in a manual assembly production facility, with products involving a mix of electrical, mechanical and pneumatic assembly.
• Create, maintain and continually improve safe and lean assembly and test processes for existing and new products.

• Document, implement, own and continuously improve the manufacturing cell’s Lean manufacturing processes
• Accountable for the definition, set up and optimisation of the processes within the allocated manufacturing cells
• Implement continuous improvement activities and projects
• Design or optimise, prove, implement and maintain cell layouts
• Implement and maintain risk assessments for allocated manufacturing cells, including the authoring of safe systems of work
• Specification and purchasing of the appropriate tooling and equipment for the allocated manufacturing cells
• Ensure configuration control of operational documentation in compliance to current regulations in terms of ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001
• Ownership and accountability to resolve or support any non-conformity, internal or external, impacting the manufacturing process
• Elimination of routing and material variances with the allocated manufacturing cells
• React to production feedback and manufacturing lessons learnt to influence design revision or correction through the engineering change process

Essential Experience & Skills

• Equivalent experience in a comparable role (essential)
• Process documentation authoring, writing of procedures and work instructions (essential)
• Experience in optimising production processes as well as providing production support (essential)
• Experience of problem solving and or utilising root cause analysis tools in a manufacturing environment (essential)
• Able to work cross functionally, communicate and build working relationships at all levels (essential)
• Ability to develop technical solutions, to requirements, within agreed timescales (essential)
• IT literacy – proficient user of MS Office and similar applications used in an office environment (essential)
• Understands engineering drawings, schematics and diagrams (essential)

Desirable Experience & Skills

• Mechanical, Electrical or Manufacturing Engineering degree or engineering qualification (desirable)
• Experience in implementing the principles of Lean manufacturing (desirable)
• Tooling design and development (desirable)
• Technical knowledge including mechanical, electrical and pneumatics (desirable)
• Basic CAD skills for layout design and design model interrogation (desirable)
• MRP/ERP system use – SAP (desirable)
• DFM/PFMEA awareness (desirable)
• Experience in implementing change, change management (desirable)
• Risk assessments and understanding of compliance requirements to health and safety, environmental and quality regulations (desirable)
• Project management experience, including risk, schedule and cost (desirable)