Production Engineer

  • Jackie Kerr Recruitment Ltd
  • Witney, Oxfordshire
  • Dec 11, 2025
Full time Manufacturing

Job Description

We at Jackie Kerr Recruitment are excited to be supporting one of our long-standing clients, a growing manufacturing company, in recruiting a Production Engineer on a permanent basis!

This Production Engineer role comes with fantastic benefits, including a bonus, employer matched pension scheme and a wellbeing programme!

Production Engineer Main Scope of Role:
  • Creating & maintaining Technical Specifications for products and components including PDM, BOMs & production routings
  • Introduction of new products to manufacturing including tooling design
  • Ensuring Work instructions & SOP's meet the technical 'critical x's' of the specifications
  • Problem solving on products & part design
  • Process improvements & manufacturing efficiency to improve production costs & quality
  • Product Quality by ensuring processes are controlled and capable
Production Engineer Key Areas: Delivery
  • Creation & maintenance of product and component technical specification documentation
  • Review all new product designs to ensure appropriate DFM has been considered
  • Maintain & Create "Master" BOM's and Routings for all products in the BU including NPI
  • Maintain the product master data including revision control
  • Design & procure tooling and fixtures to ensure efficient & high-quality production
  • Facilitate process improvement program in production
Quality
  • Ensure all manufacturing processes can produce components to the desired quality
  • Initiate Component Design reviews and DFM improvements when required
  • Act and react quickly and responsibly to production issues
Cost
  • Ensure the ERP system is kept up to date with accurate routing timings and BOMs
  • Design Production tooling and fixtures to enable reduced process times and zero defects
  • Cornerstone of NPI process to ensure production costs are kept within the expected budget
  • Process improvements to deliver reduced production costs
Safety
  • Ensure all production processes and equipment is designed to meet H&S requirements
  • Be accountable for your actions and those around you, ensuring you behave with respect to the guidelines set by the business
  • At all times wear suitable PPE for any activities, e.g. prototyping
Production Engineer Ideal Candidate / Experience Required:
  • Qualification within Engineering
  • CAD / CAM
  • New Product Introduction
  • Tooling & Jig design
  • Production timings & process optimisation
  • Continuous improvement techniques
  • Process Mapping
  • Product Data Management
  • Product Design for Manufacture
  • ERP system functions including Bills of Materials and Production Routings
  • Product Costing