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The Opportunity

• Being the technical owner or lead for specific product or processes and parts
• Assisting with the technical support, tooling and documentation to enable production of ‘World Class’ products
• Planning continuous assembly sequences and processes in order to achieve the build standard, product quality, budget hours and delivery schedule as defined by Programme Management.
• Produce work instructions, Bills of Material and technical documentation to support the manufacturing process
• Drive team and improve product-manufacturing process, setting high standards and mentoring others

• Flexible working: We offer our employees the time and flexibility they need to enjoy a balanced life through flexible hours and part time options
• Custom working: The role may be a mixture of home based and onsite
• Flexible benefits: Our company-funded approach to flexible benefits allows employees to make choices appropriate for them. Each employee has access to a wide choice of lifestyle, health and wellbeing options best suited to their individual lifestyle goals
• Network groups : To demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion we have network groups for
  • Carers (employees who care for someone who is either older, disabled or seriously ill)
  • Enable (supporting people with disabilities)
  • Equalise (development of a gender balanced workforce)
  • Pride (promoting equality for all LGBTQ+ individuals)
  • We also work in partnership with AFBE (Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers)
• Training : Free access to Coursera which provides more than 4,000 online courses
• Continuous Learning : You will be supported in your ongoing professional development though training and mentoring
• Investors in People : We are proud recipients of the Investors in People Silver Award
• Employee Assistance Programme : Providing free and confidential mental health support
• Annual leave: We offer 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and generous flexi days

What you will do

• Leading a small team of manufacturing engineers who will create work instructions to support the manufacture of detail components and assemblies in CMS
• Being responsible for setting group daily tasks, monitoring and reporting team Key Performance Indicators' (KPIs) and distribution of workload
• Reporting project budget, time scales and performance
• Organising team meetings to align goals and objectives
• Creating and approving manufacturing work instructions for mechanical detail parts and assembly structures which include:
  • Workshop operational routings
  • Electronic work instructions
  • Bill of materials
• Processing design changes and repair instructions into current products and assembly process, identifying impact analysis of changes to the business, for the efficient introduction of change
• Answering technical queries raised by CMS shop floor operators and CMS's offload companies and implement solutions
• Being responsible for identification and requesting of tooling to aid manufacturing
• Representing manufacturing engineering in engineering design reviews with being focal point in a liaison capacity between design and production
• Providing estimates of production times to enable accurate capacity plans and cost estimating, summaries and project scopes
• Evaluating teams training and development needs
• Being responsible for the development of others, including formal training, and take a proactive approach in personal development
• Mentoring people within own group, driving standard of expectation on daily basis

What we are looking for

• Educated to at least HNC or equivalent in an engineering discipline/time served apprenticeship or relevant experience
• Good working knowledge of the manufacture of sheet metal detail parts, metallic machining and mechanical assemblies
• Good working knowledge of metallic heat treatments, hardness testing, flaw detection etc.
• Team leader, excellent communicator with influencing skills
• Engineer background from an aerospace or high integrity mechanical manufacturing environment, tools and processes
• Proactive and business driven approach to improvements, customer satisfaction and high quality standards to lead by example
• Advanced of proven analysis & problem solving techniques
• You must be eligible for full security clearance. For more information and guidance please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united

• Familiar with the use of Microsoft package software such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project
• Good knowledge of the principles of material requisite planning
• Familiar with the engineering change process and documentation
• Working knowledge of the process and output of the configuration Control board (CCB)
• Working knowledge of CATIA (V4 & V5), ENOVIA, SAP (ECC6) and the modules applicable to the Manufacturing Engineering and quality functions
• Experience in project management