Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Somerset
£45,000 – £60,000 basicsalary dependent upon experience. Excellent benefits and a nine‑day fortnight.
Company
We are working on an exciting Senior Manufacturing Engineer role which offers a huge variety of interesting, challenging and diverse tasks across NPI, Process Improvement, customer liaison, supplier liaison and design for a forward‑thinking business in the circular economy space. Our client employs 70 staff and is a specialist automotive supplier working in partnership with OEMs to provide high‑quality re‑manufactured parts. They are seeing large year‑on‑year growth as they strengthen their relationship with one of the leading automotive manufacturers in the UK.
Role
The Senior Manufacturing Engineer will deal with a wide range of interesting and complex challenges in their role. Key facets of the role include:
- New Product Introduction – liaise with customers on new assemblies from initial customer meetings, through capability review, supplier development, prototype production right through to customer sign‑off and approvals on new assemblies.
- Maintenance of existing production programmes – identify issues during assembly and analyse and problem‑solve to identify opportunities for improved process.
- Line Efficiency Gains – identify bottlenecks in assembly and provide solutions – typical problems may involve tooling issues, inefficient line layout, part availability at the line or quality of process instruction documentation.
- Line Balancing – optimise flow of assembly lines for maximum efficiency.
- Design of tooling – approximately 20% of the role is spent on Solid Edge, producing 3D models and manufacturing drawings for external manufacturing of tooling and work‑holding fixtures which consist of sheet metal and machined components.
- Specifying out and buying new equipment needed for assembly lines.
Candidate
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- A practical approach to problem solving.
- Comfortable customer facing.
- Experience in a manufacturing engineer, process engineer or NPI related role within an engineering or manufacturing setting.
- Strong analytical skills – analysis of data and information.
- A desire to learn.
- CAD experience is a benefit; the business offers training.
Benefits
- £45,000 – £60,000 basicsalary depending upon experience.
- An nine day fortnight – the business works Monday to Thursday every other week.
- The opportunity to work for a department head with a huge passion for the role and over 10 years with the business.
ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
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