Manufacturing Engineer
Assignment Type: Temporary, ongoing basis where you will be engaged via Hays
Location: Chichester
Working Environment: Hybrid, part office based on site at client offices/part home based
Pay type: Competitive hourly pay rate
Our Client
The World’s pre-eminent super-luxury automotive brand based in Goodwood, near Chichester, West Sussex, which comprises its global headquarters and Global Centre of Luxury Manufacturing Excellence.
The Role
Everything starts with passion at our luxurious automotive client. It turns a profession into a vocation. It drives them to keep reinventing mobility and to bring innovative ideas onto the roads. Enthusiasm for joint projects turns a department into a strong team where every opinion is valued. It is only when expertise, highly professional processes and enjoyment of work are united that they can shape the future together.
An excellent opportunity has become available for a Manufacturing Engineer to join the Process Planning Team where you will be responsible for planning, developing, and innovating new and existing processes lean principles. You will support production associates and leaders in specific skilled elements of our processes, providing experience, guidance, and training.
Key Accountabilities:
1. Project planning, creating, monitoring, and managing multiple projects to achieve time and financial requirements
2. Presenting project/situation status, ideas, and plans
3. Articulating complex ideas and situations to non-technical personnel
4. Attending daily Work Organisation meetings when required, assisting with and leading problem-solving activities
5. Having a conscious approach to business, understanding the impact on quality, cost, and time, and being able to provide strong business cases
6. Researching and developing process technologies as part of continuous improvements or assigned projects
7. Guiding the development of standard operating instructions, training, checking, and validating effectiveness
8. Contribute and be an active member in reviewing existing and developing new processes through the use of industry standard methods and tools
9. Provide a high-quality, responsive service to the production teams
10. Be an active participant in VPS (lean) development for processes and systems
Skills & Qualifications
* Experience within a low volume, high mix production environment, specifically technical support, process engineering, systems engineering, or manufacturing engineering
* Conversant with industry standard process methods and tools; lean manufacturing techniques, PFMEA, control plans, value stream maps
* Strong project management and planning skills, able to manage and prioritize multiple priorities
* Experience in wood craft or carbon fiber technologies would be a significant advantage
* Experience in the procurement of both standard and bespoke industrial equipment
* Highly logical and able to assimilate large amounts of disparate information to formulate conclusions, plans, and actions
* Excellent organizational, presentation, and problem-solving skills
* Highly effective communication skills, written, verbal, and non-verbal. Confident at communicating at all levels and the ability to perform in challenging situations
* Must work effectively with all internal departments as well as creating strong relationships with external suppliers
* Excellent IT skills (Microsoft packages), CAD, Microsoft Project (or equivalent) strong understanding of machine control logic; programming experience an advantage
Benefits:
* Competitive hourly rate along with an annual performance related bonus
* Hybrid working
* Access to a subsidized restaurant
* Hays Go1 training platform which offers a library of over 70,000 courses
* Access to Ben – Offers support across a wide range of topics such as mental health, well-being, financial, or legal matters
* Local retail and restaurant discounts
* 35 days annual leave (Including bank holidays)
What next? If you are interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now on 0116 261 5001. # 4404785
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