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* Develop, configure, and optimize plating shop processes from inception through to start-up and steady-state monitoring, ensuring continuous improvement through data analysis and best practice implementation.
* Create and document process standards including materials, test methods, and equipment specifications.
* Perform and maintain FMEA analysis for all plating shop processes, ensuring risk mitigation actions are implemented and managed effectively.
* Own the technical risk assessment for the Surface Technology department.
* Define operational quality metrics for the Operations team to enable trend analysis and support root cause investigations.
* Develop engineering documentation to support plating shop operations, including job cards and process instructions.
* Establish standards for current and future plating activities, focusing on process improvement, standardization, line design, and cost reduction.
* Evaluate plating solutions, equipment, and practices for compliance with OEM and approved standards (e.g., Boeing SOPM, CMM, ASTM), and monitor changes to these standards.
* Identify and specify production tooling requirements for new capabilities or process improvements.
* Support internal and external teams in the development of new tooling to ensure product quality, throughput, and consistency, including documentation for tool usage.
* Review new substances for OEM compliance and regulatory requirements (REACH, COSHH), contributing to SHE assessments.
* Provide technical support for daily operations, development projects, and laboratory activities.
* Investigate and develop new processes, methods, and layouts to enhance equipment flexibility and throughput, aligned with OEM constraints and supported by the Continuous Improvement team.
* Lead investigations into non-conformities, working within a matrix environment to resolve deficiencies through process or tooling adjustments.
Skills and Experience required:
* Highly Innovative, analytical, decisive, multi-tasked, and goal oriented individual is required with the ability to manage time and resources.
* Ideally 3-5 years of electro-plating or plating experience in a R & D or process related position. Experience in a multi-faceted metal finishing operation that produces finished parts, ideally for Aerospace components.
* Training in Lean manufacturing, Continuous improvement, and Statistical Process Control.
* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distil technical information for both a technical and non-technical audience .
* An approachable team player, who proven to work in a matrix environment.
* Excellent IT and numeracy skills, ideally with knowledge of MRP & ERP / MS Office systems.
* Experience of working within an Aerospace environment to EASA 145 standard or equivalent manufacturing/maintenance industry.
* Understanding of REACH and COSHH requirements at a working level.
* Bachelors of Engineering - Mechanical / Aeronautical Engineer or Process Engineer. Alternatively a Bachelors of Science degree in Chemical Engineering or related science with proven interest in improving surface technologies.
Monday to Friday days with some flexibility based on business needs.
Based on site in Hayes UK.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Production and Strategy/Planning
* Industries
Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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