Production Engineer – Carterton, Oxfordshire
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 per annum + £5,000 bonus + benefits.
Responsibilities
* Creating and maintaining technical specifications for products and components, including PDM, BOMs and production routings.
* Introducing new products to manufacturing, including tooling design.
* Ensuring work instructions and SOPs meet the technical critical parameters of the specifications.
* Problem‑solving on products and part design.
* Process improvements and manufacturing efficiency to reduce production costs and improve quality.
* Product quality control ensuring processes are controlled and capable.
* Reviewing new product designs to ensure appropriate DFM has been considered.
* Maintaining and creating Master BOMs and routings for all products in the BU, including NPI.
* Maintaining product master data, including revision control.
* Designing and procuring tooling and fixtures for efficient, high‑quality production.
* Facilitating process improvement programs in production.
* Ensuring all manufacturing processes can produce components to the desired quality.
* Initiating component design reviews and DFM improvements when required.
* Acting and reacting quickly and responsibly to production issues.
* Keeping the ERP system up to date with accurate routing timings and BOMs.
* Designing production tooling and fixtures to enable reduced process times and zero defects.
* Ensuring production costs are kept within the expected budget at all stages of NPI.
* Delivering process improvements to reduce production costs.
* Ensuring all production processes and equipment are designed to meet H&S requirements.
* Being accountable for your actions and those around you, behaving with respect to the guidelines set by the business.
* Wearing suitable PPE for any activities, e.g. prototyping.
Qualifications
* Qualification in Engineering.
* Experience with CAD/CAM.
* Experience in New Product Introduction.
* Tooling and jig design experience.
* Knowledge of production timings and process optimisation.
* Experience in continuous improvement techniques.
* Process mapping skills.
* Product data management skills.
* Product design for manufacture.
* ERP system functions, including Bills of Materials and Production Routings.
* Product costing expertise.
Benefits
* Bonus scheme.
* 25 days annual leave.
* Employer matched pension scheme.
* Death in service scheme.
* Training & development – career/personal development plan and apprenticeships.
* Employee discounts platform (Perkbox).
* WeCare wellbeing programme.
* Cycle‑to‑work scheme.
* On‑site parking.
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