Process Improvement Engineer

Location: Miskin, Pontyclun, CF72 8XY

Salary: Up to £45,000 depending on experience

At Renishaw, we’re looking for Process Improvement Engineers who’ll be responsible for the delivery of innovative, efficient, and capable process engineering projects within a high variety, high complexity, and challenging precision optical / electro-mechanical assembly environment. As a Process Improvement Engineer within our Manufacturing Services Division (MSD), you’ll have the chance to make your mark and significantly impact the productivity and efficiency of key production lines, critical to the continued success of the business.

You’ll find this position varies and consequently requires the demonstration and development of your technical, data analysis and communication skills. As such, on the job training is a key aspect of joining the team and is used alongside training courses (e.g. Lean six sigma) and manager feedback to ensure efficient integration your new team, position and working environment.

Responsibilities

You’ll become the process expert and the main point of contact to produce your product, providing advice on a range of matters from future design changes and the impact on assembly, to the planning and actioning of tasks to allow substantial volume increases. You’ll also be responsible for identifying and proposing changes in the product, determining which activities you need to work on to meet the larger scale objectives such as quality, delivery and cost. Your specific responsibilities will include:

• Proactive process development and technical support of optical-mechanical products (process robustness, product cost reduction, cost of quality reduction, process control enhancement, efficiency improvement and process modelling, waste reduction, and process deskilling)
• The investigation of process problems and root-cause analysis, with the implementation of robust corrective action within challenging deadlines
• Continuous improvement activities within the supported areas using fact-based metrics
• Analysis of process performance data to justify improvement actions
• Design of assembly processes and product interaction equipment (including tooling, jigs, fixtures)
• The processing and evaluation of design changes
• The justification, specification, and implementation of new process equipment
• Regular interaction with the product divisions and the support services within the manufacturing services division

Key requirements

• Qualified to degree level (2:1 or above) in a relevant technical discipline (e.g. manufacturing systems, mechanical engineering, physics, mathematics etc.)
• A high level of PC literacy

Desirable requirements

• Proven experience in successfully managing and delivering technically challenging engineering activities
• Experience of applying structured problem solving and statistical analysis techniques e.g. Six Sigma
• Awareness of lean manufacturing tools and techniques and an understanding of production metrics, such as productivity, efficiency and waste
• Understanding of metrology, measurement techniques and calibration

Person specification

As the successful candidate for this role, you’ll have the ability to work well in both a team, sharing ideas and coordinating actions, as well autonomously, managing your own activities and meeting deadlines. You’ll be able to understand priorities within your day-to-day work and can spot potential areas for improvement irrelevant of current tasks. You won’t mind multi-tasking in an ever-changing engineering environment, having to roll your sleeves up and show your hands on practical ability from time to time.

Benefits

When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, subsidised onsite restaurants and coffee shops, free parking, car sharing scheme and 24 hour fitness centres.

We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.

If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.

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