Manufacturing Engineer

2 weeks ago


Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Jefferson Wells Full time

**Title**: Manufacturing Engineer

**Location**: Gloucestershire

**Duration**: 18 months

**Rate**: £45-50 p/h Inside IR35

**Roles and Responsibilities**

In this role you will be a Lead manufacturing Engineering and take technical and leadership delegationto inhouse manufacturing processes and also sub-contracted processes / products as required. You will be an vital member of the Manufacturing Engineeringdepartment who are charged to ensure design intent is correctly translated into a production system to Time, Cost & Quality for all our processes and products.
- Keeping yourself, the ME team and the shopfloor teams safe in their daily tasks.
- Deliver line side shop support and technical problem solving to the Dowty production lines and support the wider team of Manufacturing Engineers in the department. This covers Part 21 (OE) and 145 (Repair) cells.
- Technical leadership and governance of the production processes of Dowty.
- Represent Manufacturing Engineering at daily plant production meetings aligned with the GE Aviation's Production System (GEAPS).
- Control of process standard times, manufacturing Bill's of Materials of Materials (MBOM) and Tooling Bills of Materials.
- Execute structured problem solving and robust root cause corrective actions (RCCA) using industry best practise methods.
- Identify process and technology improvements and see them through research, development and into successful shop floor implementation and benefits realisation.

**Key qualifications**
- Experience of working in an aviation production facility.
- Engineering Bachelors Degree qualified.
- 5 years of experience operating in a shop floor environment with continuous improvement to shop floor and sustainment of process qualification
- Knowledge of composite (CFRP) manufacturing and assembly processes.
- Technical process leadership in a similar technically challenging environment function and achieving step change.
- Able to balance daily demands vs project work / long term problem solving
- Excellent Technical problem solving and troubleshooting using structured techniques
- Knowledge of tooling commissioning (both fixturing and cutting tools) and through life maintenance.
- Experience of Machine Tool selection and commissioning
- Cross functional team working including with external suppliers through a sourcing team.

**Desired Characteristics**
- Chartered Engineer
- Have NDT (Not destructive testing) expierence
- Six Sigma Green Belt with demonstrated Proficiency in Gauge Repeatability & Reproducibility.
- Lean Practitioner and champion of Kaizen.
- Experience of dealing with suppliers (including tooling suppliers) and sourcing teams.
- Experience of work package execution for Research & Development programmes
- Experience of RTM CFRP Production to aerospace standards.
- CAD Competence in CATIA & Pro Engineer/CREO



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