Location: Brighton (fully onsite) Duration: 6 month contract (Inside IR35) Role details: Our client, a leading defence company, are looking for an experienced Manufacturing Engineer to join their team on a contract basis in Brighton. This valuable role involves working fully onsite to support the programme by optimising the end-to-end manufacturing and logistic process. Key Responsibilities: Develop a detailed process flow diagram capturing the current manufacturing sequence for the Paveway IV programme, including all external suppliers, internal operations, sub-contract processing, inspection points and material flow. Produce a current state Value Stream Map identifying all value-added and non-value-adding activities, cycle times, lead times and inventory buffers. Analyse the impact of moving some components to IKIP on the value stream and buffer stocks on the value stream map. Develop a future state VSM that reflects the optimised manufacturing process, incorporating the IKIP changes to ensure the highest efficiency attainable. Evaluate and propose automation solutions for data capture and information recording within the process, replacing manual methods where appropriate. Ensure the future state design is lean, scalable and aligned with production and quality requirements. Provide flexibility in supporting the manufacturing function when required. Design and produce a new production cell configuration, including detailed...