Production Engineer

• Location: Chertsey, Chertsey
• Function: Engineering
• Salary: £35K - £39K / Annum
• Reference: 13424
• Job Type: Permanent

Production Engineer

Our client is seeking an experienced Production Engineer with lean manufacturing knowledge to join a small team within a highly technical, low volume electro-mechanical manufacturing environment.

The Production/Manufacturing Engineer is an extremely varied and fast-paced role, providing day-to day engineering support for production operations, carrying out continuous improvement initiatives and managing the introduction of new products from Research and Development (R&D).

This role will involve liaising with all levels of staff across the business; particularly the Production, R&D, Service and Quality departments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day engineering support to onsite production activities
• Undertake continuous improvement initiatives to reduce complexity and manufacturing costs of existing products
• Manage and execute New Product Introduction (NPI) activities to transfer products from R&D to the factory floor and/or external sub-contractors/suppliers
• Provide assistance to the Service department in supporting end users
• Drive an ethos of improvements across the business including product, process, quality and health & safety aspects
• Produce technical engineering reports
• Produce and maintain build and test instructions
• Carry out time studies and work assessments to establish standard assembly times
• Design and introduce assembly equipment, tooling and fixtures
• Undertake vendor assessments to evaluate supplier engineering capabilities

Qualifications and Experience:

• Ideally at least 5 years’ experience in a similar, technical role
• Experience of working within an ISO regulated environment
• Advanced knowledge of electro-mechanical/instrumentation products and technologies
• Knowledge of best practice production methodologies such as 5S and Lean Manufacturing
• Demonstrable experience of working with sub-contractors/suppliers during NPI activities

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