Our OEM Client based in Solihull is searching for a Joining / Manufacturing Engineer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position until 17th July 2026.
Umbrella Pay Rate: GBP32.61 per hour.
As a Joining / Manufacturing Engineer, you will be at the heart of our manufacturing process, ensuring our joining methods are robust and efficient.
Roles and Responsibilities:
* Collaborate and influence: Actively contribute insights and provide vital feedback to lead Joining Engineer, BIW Process Engineering, and Product Development teams to shape manufacturable joining methods.
* Analyse and optimise: Review feasibility trial results, ensure data validity, identify improvements, and drive optimal solutions.
* Foster vendor relationships: Manage vendor engineers, ensure responsibilities, reviews, and timings are met, and raise deviations promptly.
* Ensure project consistency: Coordinate projects, maintain alignment with best practices and methodologies for high-quality delivery.
* Drive digital transformation: Use data and digital tools like PowerApps, macros, and AI to automate, monitor, and analyze processes for improved decision-making.
* Coordinate manufacturing excellence: Work with project teams and vendors to ensure adherence to joining technologies and standards for seamless production.
* Understand the big picture: Develop understanding of interface interactions in joining technologies like adhesives, FDS, RSW, etc., ensuring parameters are aligned.
Essential Personal Specification, Experience, and Education:
We're seeking someone with technical curiosity and strong interpersonal skills, likely:
* A collaborative team player, thriving in team settings, with enthusiasm and passion.
* Initiative-taker and problem solver, driven to complete tasks and meet commitments.
* Digitally savvy, proficient in applications, dashboards, data analysis, and exploring AI potential.
* Effective communicator, able to convey technical info clearly at all levels.
* Technically curious, ideally with a degree or equivalent in engineering, with knowledge or interest in joining technologies such as GTAW, laser welding, SPR, RSW, adhesives, FDS, and knowledge transfer skills.
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