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