Production Engineer

Saffron Walden
10 months ago
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Do you have good CAD skills and are you confident tweaking engineering drawings to improve product specifications and make things easier for the shopfloor to manufacture?

Do you have good lean skills and a common sense approach to improving manufacturing operations?

This could be the role for you!

Our client, a volume manufacturing business in Cambridgeshire, seek to appoint a Production Engineer to improve manufacturing techniques to reduce design errors, remove waste from production processes, and increase quality and repeatability for production lines. Working alongside multiple departments you will be a good communicator able to quickly integrate and have good CAD skills. 

Reporting in to the Ops Manager with a dotted line to the Engineering Manager you will also produce tooling aids for ease of manufacture and be the point of contact within the lean function to answer queries on production engineering for the quality, production, maintenance and design departments. The ideal Production Engineer will come from a fast moving high volume component manufacturing background: plastic, glass, electronics, food, automotive, etc.

Production Engineer - Role & Responsibilities - Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Lean
 - Address root causes of process and design issues. Work with quality department and understand 4D/8D/Root Cause Analysis. Implement CAPA
 - Work with design department to improve engineering drawings
 - Make improvements to processes and production techniques. Work with production to reduce lead times, improve tooling and changeovers, and drive greater performance from existing staff. Observe assembly staff and assess for ergonomic issues with operators
 - Lead Design Reviews and report back to R&D to allow the design of easily manufacturable products. Carry out basic CAD work yourself

Production Engineer - Skills & Abilities - Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Lean
 - Extensive experience of production engineering: layout, continuous flow, SMED, CAPEX, planning, capacity modelling/simulation, costings, etc.
 - Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement knowledge. Six Sigma training preferred but not essential
 - HND/Degree qualified in an engineering discipline
 - Knowledge of high volume manufacturing (plastic, glass, electronics, food, automotive, etc)

  • Good CAD skills for basic design tweaks

    Production Engineer, Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Lean

    If this role could appeal please do apply now

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