Manufacturing Engineer

**Manufacturing Engineer**
**Permanent Position**
**Monday
- Thursday
- 08.00-16.30, Friday
- 08.00-15.00**
**Competitive Salary + Benefits including, Life assurance, Pension package, 25 days holiday + Banks.**
**Studley-**_Commutable from Worcester, Birmingham, and Solihull_
- Design new systems and processes and provide facilities & methods to ensure the cost-effective integration of new products or for the improvement of existing ones into manufacturing operations.
- Reduce variability in manufacturing by providing standard work methods and work instructions
- Ensure product and process quality meets specifications required.
- Generating production documentation such as assembly instructions.
- Design fixtures and tooling for assembly tasks.
- Improve manufacturing efficiency by analysing and planning workflow, space requirements and equipment layout.
- Assist with shop floor layout and cell designs.
- Conducting analysis of current state using Value Stream Mapping, Spaghetti Diagram, Takt Time, etc.
- Carry out FMEAs, (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) process documentation and implement improvements.
- Poka Yoke (error proofing) where possible to prevent errors.
- Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems
- Support and lead continuous improvement, problem solving and process improvement activities.
- Investigate production and process issues providing technical support and training.
- Organise plant start-up and shut-down schedules to ensure minimum loss of production time.
- Report down time and possible trends.
- Contribute to continuous improvement activities
- Quality control of work by appropriate reviews
- Conduct benchmarking studies to determine best practices/designs and future trends
- Plan projects or subtasks so they may be tracked and presented.
- Ensure all product and system requirements are considered from the initial product conception to the finished result.

**Qualifications/ Skills/ Experience**:

- Understanding manufacturing processes as well as engineering, scientific and other technical information
- Have working experience of working as a Production/Manufacturing engineer, improving assembly processes. Specifically robotic Welding assembly processes.
- Good understanding of customer expectations and deliverables with an awareness of the impact of failure/cost of poor quality
- Ability to use CAD
- Relevant manufacturing/engineering degree preferred, A Levels, ONC, City & Guilds level 3, Btec National Diploma Level 3, IVQ Technician Diploma, or equivalent NVQ level 3 qualification