Manufacturing Engineer
Company
Location
Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/10/2025
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Description
Position Responsibilities
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Essential:
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WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Liaison with RWM as part of technology transfer. This will involve spending periods of time in Germany understanding manufacturing processes.
- Planning of all machinery and tooling requirements to satisfy task requirements. Continually review to find best solution and recommend innovative technology when appropriate.
- Defining and developing process specifications and capability indices.
- Creation and maintenance of Process Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (PFMEA) and Control Plans.
- Leading the activity of pre-production readiness of all new equipment, ensuring that the following requirements are met:
- Demonstrate procedural compliance and product quality through liaison with the Quality department (via IAT and FAT).
- Relevant training of Operators and support functions on any production machinery, tooling, jigs and fixtures, in-line with SHE requirements.
- Parts, tooling and consumable requirements are identified for tie-in with Logistics delivery planning.
- Support the SHE buy-off of any new technologies and equipment.
- Creation and maintenance of MBoM and process routings.
- Producing comprehensive manufacturing instructions to ensure safe, efficient working to agreed quality standards.
- Conducting Risk and PUWER assessments and promoting safe working practices.
- Providing lineside manufacturing support to the Production Delivery Teams to:
- Support daily shop floor management escalation meetings and shop floor queries.
- Lead Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) activities.
- Improve improving existing manufacturing processes (including process, layout, equipment etc) using Lean Manufacturing methodologies.
- Supporting the Procurement community to:
- Be the technical lead on supplier down-selection activities, ensuring proposals are compliant with technical requirements.
- Manage any descoping activities required to meet financial constraints whilst achieving the agreed manufacturing capability.
- Conduct Make versus Buy (MvB) assessments.
- Conduct capacity analyses, identify key constraints and recommend a course of action to reduce risk within the supply chain.
- Working with the QA department to agree quality standards and ensure process is compliant. Raise Quality Alerts as necessary to highlight any issues.
- Operating with a high degree of autonomy to prevent and resolve issues, applying problem solving techniques to complex situations.
- Supporting project manager by providing input into project reports.
Essential:
- Demonstrated experience working as a Manufacturing Engineer with a focus on milling, turning, grinding, honing, drilling and boring processes.
- A recognised Engineering qualification/engineering apprenticeship or suitable engineering qualifications in a manufacturing/ discipline equivalent to HNC or higher.
- Demonstrated experience with CNC programming using CAD CAM packages.
- Solid understanding of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and metrology principles.
- Knowledge of a wide range of manufacturing techniques.
- Security cleared or the ability to attain and maintain a UK security clearance up to SC level.
- Experience in defining and managing Key Performance Indicators.
- Understanding of Manufacturing Readiness Levels (MRLs).
- Experience working with SAP and Teamcenter.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office, in particular Word and Excel.
- Professional knowledge of relevant Engineering standards (including SHE regulations).
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and diplomacy skills
- Ability to balance priorities across manufacturing in support of business and customer requirements.
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