Senior Production Engineer - Oxfordshire - £Competitive

We are seeking an ambitious and confident Senior Production Engineer to take our client's processes from development into a brand new batch production operation. The focus of this role is on continuous process improvement in a small batch, made to order, manufacturing environment.

The Senior Production Engineer will be a key figure in the set up of this new manufacturing operation and will be the technical authority for production processes, determining process performance and driving root cause and corrective action activities to prevent future issues.

Key responsibilities of the Senior Production Engineer:

• Collaborate with the NPI and Operations teams to define and publish a manufacturing maturity assessment scale, enabling baseline assessment and the smooth transfer of key processes, along with the required supporting deliverables.
• Support RCCA activities to prevent recurrence of failures or deviations, ensuring effective documentation and communication
• Own PFMEAs as processes transfer to production, maintaining up-to-date risk analyses and ensuring associated controls are implemented.
• Own and maintain process documentation, including standard work, control plans and work instructions, ensuring accuracy and compliance during scale-up.
• Collaborate with process owners to resolve cross-functional issues affecting production stability or performance.
• Own process setup for future production runs, including defining key parameters, routings, and standard work.
• Support qualification activities for machines and processes (IQ/OQ/PQ or equivalent), analysing results and approving release into production

The ideal Senior Production Engineer will have a strong background in batch or serial manufacturing environments and be confident pushing back and communicating with other teams of Engineers in a fast paced, start-up environment.

If the opportunity to join a high tech manufacturing operation at the very beginning and grow with it is of interest, then our client can offer a great salary and excellent benefits including company shares and a generous pension contribution.

Bond Williams Professional Recruitment are an equal opportunity employer and operate as an Employment Business and Recruitment Agency