Production/Manufacturing Engineer Okehampton, England
Job description
We are looking for an experienced Production/Manufacturing Engineer to join our Team.
The role will involve, along with the daily activities, conceptually designing automated semi-automated pieces of equipment to help drive down manufacturing costs across the business. We have a good size workshop with a Haas toolroom Milling machine that we are utilising to manufacture components in house rather than subcontract out.
The machine shop is still growing in capability as more products are identified for inhouse manufacture.
The ideal candidate would have a keen eye for process improvements in terms of equipment and methodologies and with a multi disciplined background, be able to design/ build solutions to improve our current manufacturing system.
We have already started to implement LEAN initiatives, such as the 5’s and Visual management systems, to reduce waste and improve efficiency within the group.
We have an engineering apprentice that requires guidance and mentoring as he starts a manufacturing engineering Level 2 course this year.
The Main Responsibilities are:
- Maintain existing equipment, machinery, and buildings to include the implementation of preventative maintenance schedules.
- Maintain existing maintenance contracts and implement new contracts as required.
- Investigate and resolve production issues.
- Identify opportunities for upgrades and improvements to equipment and mange the entire process from quote to implementation including post-implementation review.
- Identify process improvements inline with manufacturing best practice and modern techniques and manage the implementation and subsequent reviews.
- Monitoring of Production efficiency including waste and implement a waste monitoring program with measure to reduce overall waste in the production process.
- Update CAD product drawings with Quality Manger and create new CAD drawings as required.
- Identify currently bought in products and reverse engineer for in-house/contract production.
- Design/build production equipment to improve efficiencies and improve methodologies within the production process
Qualifications:
- ONC or HNC Manufacturing/Production Engineer
- Experience in Lean initiatives
- CNC Machining Programming Knowledge
- Ability to use AutoCAD LT
- Experience of PLC programming Siemens S7 and Logo software
Job Types: Permanent, Full-time
Salary: From £35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Flexitime
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
- Yearly bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Okehampton: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Work Location: In person
