MERITUS are recruiting for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our client within the Space sector on an initial 9 month contract to work on interesting satellite projects.
SENIOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER - INSIDE IR35 - £43.13 PER HOUR - FARNBOROUGH - SPACE SECTOR - 9 MONTHS - 2 STAGE INTERVIEW PROCESS
As a key member of the Manufacturing Engineering Team, your main tasks and responsibilities will be to provide hands-on enablement of design intent into a production system for a UAV's platforms to Safety, Quality, Cost and Time through:
* Design and qualification of a HAPS production system using Manufacturing System Engineering tools and processes. (Cellular production approach, Lean Process flow, line balancing, capital investment items, factory layout, simulation).
* Delivery of shop floor requirements to the HAPS Facilities Management team.
* Create/change MRP system shop floor routings/job card definitions/shop floor standard operating instructions (SOI's)/quality care cards
* Technical dossiers and support to procurement activities, supply chain monitoring and Make v Buy decisions.
* Technical problem solving and support to production and supply chain.
* Application of APQP as appropriate
* Perform Design For Manufacture (DFM)/Design To Cost (DTC) studies and provide input to design teams
* Liaison with MGSE/Jig & Tools (Design, Manufacture, Calibration & Maintenance)
You will also be responsible for:
* Deriving and enabling production KPI's in conjunction with operations teams.
* Continuous Improvement of the production system in line with business targets
* Enable Health and Safety target achievement.
* Enablement of the "Right First Time" Quality culture with associated business systems and feedback loops
Experience and Qualifications:
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:
* Experience within the Aerospace and/or Space industry
* Experience in one or more of the following areas:
o Avionics
o Assembly, Integration, and Test
* Experience creating assembly process instructions.
* Experience creating ERP routings.
* Experience using RCCA methodology.
* Ability to work independently and within a team.
* Excellent communication skills.
* English to negotiation level.
The candidate will ideally have experience with the following:
* Experience with creating/editing BoMs.
* Experience using PLM and ERP tools (eg Arena and Microsoft Dynamics 365).
* Experience with the creation of test plans in an Avionics environment.
* Experience working in a highly regulated industry (CAA; Part G; Part J; etc)