LOCATION- Exeter
TERM- Permanent
SALARY- £30,000-£35,000 plus other benefits
My client is looking for a Production Engineer to join their business on a permanent basis in the Exeter area. The ideal candidate will identify & implement best manufacturing practices for manufacturing of New products exceeding customer expectations
The Production Engineer will ideally have the following attributes:
- HNC/HND or equivalent in an Engineering discipline
- Have experience working as a Manufacturing Engineer within product development in a similar environment
- Experience of Value stream mapping, FMEA , RCA and 8D would be beneficial
- Previous involvement in NPI would be beneficial
- Be able to read & interpret engineering drawings
- Experience within Lean Manufacturing & continuous improvement project
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Competent in problem solving, planning and decision making
- Ability to work individually or as a team
- Creating/ updating work instructions, process sheets, testing/validation plans
- Work closely with the Lean team to develop and implement best practices, routines and solutions to improve production rates, Quality and output
- Come up with innovative manufacturing solutions for parts
- Processing ECR’s and producing corrective actions, participating in change request reviews
- Responsible for updating MRP system and maintenance of BOMS.
- Participate in NPI reviews to ensure only most production efficient designs are released into production
- Delivering continuous improvement, operational excellence, and lean improvements
- Identify & present ideas for improving productions processes improving profitability, quality and throughput or H&S.