Manufacturing Engineer Join a Fast-Growing, Innovative Engineering Organisation Salary: £30,000 – £43,200 Excellent Benefits Are you a driven Manufacturing Engineer looking to step into a role where you can shape production processes, support NPI, and influence operational excellence ? This is your chance to join a rapidly expanding engineering business that empowers you to take ownership, drive improvements, and make a genuine impact. What You'll Be Doing • Ensuring designs released to production are standardised, manufacturable and testable • Participating in project meetings, design reviews and DFM reviews • Supporting prototype builds and resolving pre-production issues • Creating detailed manufacturing plans including layouts, cycle times, resourcing and tooling • Supporting New Product Introduction to meet quality, cost and timescale targets • Training operations teams during new product/process rollout • Designing and implementing new production lines & layouts and preparing CapEx proposals • Developing jigs, fixtures and tooling to improve efficiency and material flow • Conducting time & motion studies, line balancing and value stream mapping • Creating routings and standard times within the ERP system • Performing root cause analysis and driving corrective actions • Managing maintenance schedules to minimise downtime • Estimating costs, production times and resource requirements for new designs • Maintaining and improving work instructions and process documentation • Reducing scrap, rework and non-value-added activities through CI methodologies • Enhancing material flow and inventory processes with procurement and production • Identifying techniques and equipment that elevate best practice • Supporting daily production meetings and assisting with issue resolution • Ensuring full compliance with Health & Safety procedures What You'll Bring • Degree-level qualification (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline • Experience in a similar manufacturing/production engineering role • Lean Six Sigma certification (preferred) • A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with strong CI orientation If you're passionate about optimising processes, driving efficiency, and contributing to world-class manufacturing, we'd love to hear from you. Why Apply? | Exceptional Benefits • Optional 9-day fortnight • TOIL and flexible working hours • 1pm finish every Friday • Hybrid working (role dependent) • Annual bonus • Casual dress • 25 days holiday Christmas shutdown • Holiday buy/sell scheme • Private healthcare, dental & critical illness options (salary sacrifice) • Reward hub with 200 discounts • 4x salary life cover • Pension: 5% employer / 4% employee (flexible contribution options) Interested? Reply with your CV or request a confidential call to learn more. Take the next step in your manufacturing career today!