Process Engineer

Manufacturing Process Engineer

Location: Sheffield

Salary: Up to £45k DOE

Elevation Recruitment Group are working with a long-standing manufacturing organisation in Sheffield that is investing in process development, optimisation and modernisation.

As a Manufacturing Process Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping continuous improvement activity, leading projects and supporting site-wide performance enhancements.

This is a great opportunity for a Manufacturing Process Engineer who thrives on ownership, enjoys variety and wants to make a real impact within a busy industrial environment.

Summary of Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and support improvement projects across a range of manufacturing processes on site

• Manage individual projects including cost saving, H&S and business critical workstreams, ensuring realistic timeframes and regular updates

• Contribute to wider group projects and support team KPIs

• Work alongside operators and area leads to turn improvement suggestions into structured plans and actions

• Support production teams with lean tools including 5S, Kaizen, GEMBA and DMAIC

• Carry out justification and feasibility studies including ROI calculations, CAPEX submissions and cross-functional review

• Support the introduction of new products, new processes and emerging manufacturing techniques

• Optimise existing processes to reduce cost and improve performance, liaising with technical and quality teams

• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and apply modern manufacturing methods to strengthen performance and capability

• Capture and analyse production data to highlight improvement opportunities

• Present regular project updates to all levels of management, taking ownership of overdue actions

• Work cross-functionally to ensure projects deliver full value and measurable benefits

• Support quality investigations, conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions

• Proactively identify and improve health and safety standards across site

• Carry out any reasonable tasks requested by the line manager

Qualifications and Skills we are looking to see for the role:

• Experience delivering project or process implementation, either leading or as part of a project team

• Ability to evaluate processes, identify improvement opportunities and carry actions through to completion

• Exposure to a variety of manufacturing techniques and material processing

• Strong decision making skills with the confidence to drive performance improvements

• Solid problem solving skills, both individually and as part of a team

• High level of ownership, working to a SMART framework

• Experience writing justifications for equipment or process implementation

• Basic understanding of quality functions including root cause and corrective actions

• Strong health and safety awareness with a proactive mindset

• Excellent attention to detail

• Practical approach to spotting and delivering continuous improvement

• Ability to handle pressure and work to time critical tasks

• Team player with excellent organisational skills

Desirable

• Understanding of forging procedures

• Confident communicator with good liaison skills

• Basic knowledge of CI and Lean tools (PFMEA, VSM, DMAIC, Lean/6 Sigma etc.)

• Ability to use 2D and 3D CAD packages