Job Description
Process Improvement Technician
Miskin
up to £35,000 depending on experience
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality products and driving technical excellence?
We’re looking for a motivated individual to provide technical support, development, and ownership of complex high-precision assembly processes as part of the AMG (Additive Manufacturing Group) process improvement engineering team. In this role, you’ll ensure products reach customers on time and to the highest standards.
Responsibilities
Support the process and build of AM machines and sub assemblies including:
1. Manage equipment calibration and maintenance activities, and monitor key metrics like first-time pass rates, yields, and scrap costs.
2. Process trend analysis, investigating root causes for customer returns, and implementing corrective actions.
3. Create and execute plans to prioritise changes such as design change/ capacity uplift and rig/tooling improvements, validate new or upgraded assembly processes, and collaborate with Product Designers to optimise designs for assembly.
4. Provide hands-on support for assembly cells, including troubleshooting equipment breakdowns and addressing quality defects.
5. Ensure all processes are documented to good manufacturing practice standards, conduct quality issue investigations, and maintain cost and pass rate reporting for analysis.
6. Managing calibration of equipment such as hand tools.
This professional career band position focuses on applying your technical expertise—either independently or within teams—with opportunities to deepen your knowledge and influence process improvements. You’ll receive guidance from senior colleagues and apply knowledge to structured assignments within established procedures.
Key requirements
Applicants should be educated to HNC level or equivalent work experience in a relevant field. If you’re ready to make an impact through technical excellence and process improvement with an exciting product, we’d love to hear from you!
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
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Employment Type:
Regular
Time Type:
Full time
Requisition Number:
R9117 Process Improvement Technician (Open)