Manufacturing Engineer – Heavy Fabrication
Northwest UK | £50,000 | Permanent
A long-established defence engineering specialist is looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to join its Northwest Engineering Centre of Excellence. You'll be supporting fabrication and heavy manufacturing operations, driving process improvement, build quality, and production efficiency across large-scale welded and fabricated assemblies for military applications.
What you'll be doing:
- Optimising and standardising manufacturing processes for complex welded and fabricated assemblies
- Identifying opportunities to reduce waste, improve cycle times, and enhance tooling and fixture effectiveness
- Analysing quality trends and driving corrective and preventive actions
- Developing and managing structured improvement plans with measurable outcomes
- Leading cross-functional teams to embed lean practices and improve cost and delivery performance
- Supporting NPI activity with a focus on Design for Manufacturability (DFM) in fabrication and welding
- Promoting continuous improvement using structured problem-solving tools including 8D and CAPA
- Ensuring compliance with EHS, manufacturing, and quality standards across fabrication processes
- Implementing containment and long-term corrective actions for process deviations
What you need:
- HND, Higher/Advanced Apprenticeship, or Degree in Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering
- Proven manufacturing engineering background in a technical, industrial, or heavy fabrication environment
- Experience with large-scale fabrications, welding processes, or heavy manufacturing flows
- Practical knowledge of lean tools and continuous improvement methodologies
- Strong problem-solving skills with a hands‑on, shop‑floor‑led approach
- Clear communicator able to work across operational and engineering teams
- SAP or ERP systems experience advantageous (training available)
What's on offer:
- £50,000 per annum
- 4% employee / 7% employer pension contribution
- Half‑day Fridays
- Life assurance and enhanced sick pay (increasing with service)
- Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing initiatives
- Long service awards and additional holidays
- Cycle‑to‑work scheme, on‑site parking, and EV charging
- Modern, collaborative working environment
This is a permanent position with a respected name in defence engineering, delivering highly engineered mechanical and structural systems for demanding military programmes.
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Northwest UK | £50,000 | Permanent
A long-established defence engineering specialist is looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to join its Northwest Engineering Centre of Excellence. You’ll be supporting fabrication and heavy manufacturing operations, driving process improvement, build quality, and production efficiency across large-scale welded and fabricated assemblies for military applications.
What you’ll be doing:
- Optimising and standardising manufacturing processes for complex welded and fabricated assemblies
- Identifying opportunities to reduce waste, improve cycle times, and enhance tooling and fixture effectiveness
- Analysing quality trends and driving corrective and preventive actions
- Developing and managing structured improvement plans with measurable outcomes
- Leading cross-functional teams to embed lean practices and improve cost and delivery performance
- Supporting NPI activity with a focus on Design for Manufacturability (DFM) in fabrication and welding
- Promoting continuous improvement using structured problem-solving tools including 8D and CAPA
- Ensuring compliance with EHS, manufacturing, and quality standards across fabrication processes
- Implementing containment and long-term corrective actions for process deviations
What you need:
- HND, Higher/Advanced Apprenticeship, or Degree in Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering
- Proven manufacturing engineering background in a technical, industrial, or heavy fabrication environment
- Experience with large-scale fabrications, welding processes, or heavy manufacturing flows
- Practical knowledge of lean tools and continuous improvement methodologies
- Strong problem-solving skills with a hands‑on, shop‑floor‑led approach
- Clear communicator able to work across operational and engineering teams
- SAP or ERP systems experience advantageous (training available)
What’s on offer:
- £50,000 per annum
- 4% employee / 7% employer pension contribution
- Half‑day Fridays
- Life assurance and enhanced sick pay (increasing with service)
- Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing initiatives
- Long service awards and additional holidays
- Cycle‑to‑work scheme, on‑site parking, and EV charging
- Modern, collaborative working environment
This is a permanent position with a respected name in defence engineering, delivering highly engineered mechanical and structural systems for demanding military programmes.
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