Description Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe. Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market. Oxford Nanopore’s sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere! We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join our engineering team as a Senior Production Engineer to work on the world's first and only nanopore DNA sequencer. This is an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about new technology. The Details Reporting to the Associate Director of Production Engineering, you'll work with executive management and contract manufacturers teams to define and develop the assembly and overall Production process. This will involve taking a lead role in product and process validation and participation in the design and implementation of assembly fixtures. You'll facilitate the development of internal and external production processes and establish and maintain production processes and quality for new products as well as improvements to existing ones. You'll always be looking for ways to develop and implement measures that improve product quality and drive cost savings. Other duties include: Provide manufacturing engineering support to Engineering Design and R&D project team and coordinate transfer of new products into manufacturing considering manufacturability and efficiency of processes Collate and interpret data to ensure the manufacturing processes are effectively maintained to achieve consistently high yields Identify production problems/deficiencies and be able to use a methodical system to solve these Create and maintain controlled documentation such as; process flows, process and tool drawings, component specifications, process routers, bills of materials, work and inspection instructions Optimise the manufacturing processes - improving efficiencies, reducing wastage, enhancing yield and reducing cost What We're Looking For We'll expect you to have a degree in mechanical engineering or a similar subject and you'll be apprentice trained with significant relevant industrial experience. You'll have a background of production engineering within a highly regulated industry such as medical or aerospace and have worked in manual cell manufacturing where lean initiatives have been practised. Also desirable would be experience with automating and semi-automating processes for medical products. You'll have experience in establishing and validating pilot production lines as well as in performing FMEAs, verifications and validations for medical devices products and processes. Alongside your strong technical background, you'll be a strong communicator with excellent writing skills enabling you to create detailing specifications, processes and manufacturing documentation. You'll also be proficient in Microsoft Applications including Project Excel and Visio. Competency in Solidworks would also be advantageous. This role will suit someone who enjoys working collaboratively with others from multi-disciplinary teams, likes to take a hands-on approach and is a proactive problem solver. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a cutting-edge, high-tech industry in a fast-paced working environment on exciting projects where you can make an impact. We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today! Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job LI-JC1