Senior Manufacturing Engineer

2 days ago

Telford, United Kingdom Major Recruitment Full time

Are you an experienced Senior Manufacturing Engineer? Are you passionate about product design from concept to completion? Are you looking for a role within a leading automotive manufacturer with exciting growth plans over the next 2 years.


Major Recruitment, in partnership with Polytec Group, are looking to recruit a Senior Manufacturing Engineer on a permanent basis to join the team based in Bridgnorth. This role will also include travel to our other sites within the West Midlands.


As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer you will be responsible for leading the team for new product integration into production, covering pre-series to series production. This includes process engineering integration into mainstream manufacturing, managing layouts, capital expenditures, installation, commissioning, and support for maintaining production lines for existing product designs.


Key Responsibilities as a Senior Manufacturing Engineer:

  • Coach and develop the team, enhancing their engineering knowledge.
  • Manage productivity, efficacy, and discipline within the team.
  • Foster skill development and maintain self-directed learning among the team.
  • Act as a departmental lead, upholding a culture of respect and dignity.
  • Develop processes to ensure manufacturing predictability and reliability.
  • Implement process capability standards and long-term sustainability measures.
  • Support the transition of new products and processes from R&D to manufacturing.
  • Engage early with R&D to incorporate Design for Manufacture (DFM) and Design for Paint (DFP).
  • Provide technical support to the Operations Team using the current production lines to manufacture customers assemblies.
  • Review the current manufacturing process and identify areas of improvement.
  • Manage LOP Lists of issues on current production lines and provide technical solutions to ensure production supply is not affected.
  • Support the delivery of Model Year updates on current production lines
  • Support to Project Management (NPI) and being able to manage multiple short-term tasks to meet the expectations of others in the organisation is a challenging aspect of the position.
  • Manage projects within constraints using recognised methods and systems.
  • Influencing others in the organisation that do not directly report to this position is critical to implementing product and process changes.
  • Communication with customers and vendors is required in resolving product and material non-conformance issues.
  • Provides technical-design support for development, design and systems integration. Review the work involved and supports the project through all phases of Introduction.
  • Develop fixing/assembly concepts for complete program (link to Methods Engineering)
  • Detailed understanding of plastics (material, processing, characteristics and behaviour) (link to Tooling Projects)


Skills required as a Senior Manufacturing Engineer:

  • Qualified in a related engineering discipline to HNC/HND Level as a minimum.
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in manufacturing / launch engineering
  • Total Product Design - end to end
  • Full knowledge of manufacturing/production processes – end to end
  • Experience of Project Management/Continuous Improvement
  • Ability to manage production integration.
  • Ability to work flexibly in a fast-paced, highly pressurised environment
  • Knowledge and understanding of Lean methodologies.
  • Experienced of leading and managing teams


Major Recruitment are an employment agency working on behalf of our client. Should you be seeking a new permanent position, temporary assignment, or contract you will find our staff professional and courteous and our interview process straight forward.

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