Production Engineer in Carterton, Oxfordshire

Production Engineer – Carterton, Oxfordshire

Salary: £45,000 – £50,000 per annum + £5,000 bonus + benefits.

Responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining technical specifications for products and components, including PDM, BOMs and production routings.
• Introducing new products to manufacturing, including tooling design.
• Ensuring work instructions and SOPs meet the technical critical parameters of the specifications.
• Problem‑solving on products and part design.
• Process improvements and manufacturing efficiency to reduce production costs and improve quality.
• Product quality control ensuring processes are controlled and capable.
• Reviewing new product designs to ensure appropriate DFM has been considered.
• Maintaining and creating Master BOMs and routings for all products in the BU, including NPI.
• Maintaining product master data, including revision control.
• Designing and procuring tooling and fixtures for efficient, high‑quality production.
• Facilitating process improvement programs in production.
• Ensuring all manufacturing processes can produce components to the desired quality.
• Initiating component design reviews and DFM improvements when required.
• Acting and reacting quickly and responsibly to production issues.
• Keeping the ERP system up to date with accurate routing timings and BOMs.
• Designing production tooling and fixtures to enable reduced process times and zero defects.
• Ensuring production costs are kept within the expected budget at all stages of NPI.
• Delivering process improvements to reduce production costs.
• Ensuring all production processes and equipment are designed to meet H&S requirements.
• Being accountable for your actions and those around you, behaving with respect to the guidelines set by the business.
• Wearing suitable PPE for any activities, e.g. prototyping.

Qualifications

• Qualification in Engineering.
• Experience with CAD/CAM.
• Experience in New Product Introduction.
• Tooling and jig design experience.
• Knowledge of production timings and process optimisation.
• Experience in continuous improvement techniques.
• Process mapping skills.
• Product data management skills.
• Product design for manufacture.
• ERP system functions, including Bills of Materials and Production Routings.
• Product costing expertise.

Benefits

• Bonus scheme.
• 25 days annual leave.
• Employer matched pension scheme.
• Death in service scheme.
• Training & development – career/personal development plan and apprenticeships.
• Employee discounts platform (Perkbox).
• WeCare wellbeing programme.
• Cycle‑to‑work scheme.
• On‑site parking.

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