Operations Engineer

3 days ago


Bridgend, United Kingdom Jonathan Lee Recruitment Full time

**Role**:Operations Engineer

**Location**:Bridgend CF31

**Hours**:7.30am - 4.00 pm

**Salary**:Good Salary

**Benefits**:Yearly bonus to 8% / 25days holiday + BH / shares scheme / Pension to 10%.

**The Role**

The Operations Engineer will work as part of an Operations Engineering team to achieve maximum effectiveness and efficiency of equipment and develop manufacturing processes

**Education/Experience Requirements**
- 5+ years' manufacturing engineering experience, medical device experience is preferred, but not required (but will need some exposure to working in a regulated industry)
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing
- Knowledge of computers and engineering software (CAD, SAP and Minitab preferred but not essential)
- Mechanical aptitude and strong problem-solving and troubleshooting ability
- Technical Support and decision-making skills

**Principal Duties and Responsibilities**
- Responsible for Engineering Change Requests for processes, components, routes, and bill of materials
- Assists in the design and implementation of tooling fixtures
- Carrying out risk management activities including but not restricted to Health and Safety Risk assessments and Process FMEA including the implementation and communication of mitigation actions.
- Conducts evaluation of production equipment performance by analyzing data to determine process stability
- Responsible for production support and process validation
- Responsible for meeting process performance requirements to achieve output.
- Works with maintenance to identify opportunities and implement changes to improve machine uptime and reduce mean time between failures
- Supports troubleshooting activities on equipment and processes.
- Utilizes tools like Gage R&R, Cp, Cpk, and SPC to improve processes (is preferred)
- Participates and or leads activities to reduce scrap
- Support Capacity Requirements / Analysis
- Generates and modifies manufacturing process documentation
- Works with cross-functional teams as required
- Develops and implement process improvements
- Resolves and/or facilitates resolution of problems including identifying causes to prevent reoccurrence following appropriate resolution processes by participating and or lead IE's and Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA)
- Managing small, well-defined projects to budget and timelines.
- Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors
- All other duties as assigned

**Expected Areas of Competence**
- Highly motivated, proactive, and thrives under pressure situations and tight deadlines.
- Excellent Communication Skills, both written and oral with all levels of internal employees and external vendors
- Demonstrating an organized approach to daily duties
- An analytical approach to problem-solving
- Ability to introduce innovative ideas to improve existing processes
- A methodical approach to Root Cause Analysis leading to "Fix Forever" solutions
- Understands manufacturing concepts like Value Stream Mapping, 6S, and Visual Workplace to improve quality, labour efficiency and throughput
- Protocol and report writing

**Travel Requirements**
- Business travel may be required from time to time with this role.

**Additional Information**
- Additional working hours outside standard contracted hours may be required to ensure project deadlines are met

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.



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