Job vacancy - Senior Production Engineer

Position: Senior Production Engineer
Reference: acsMSbsenprodeng
Location: Bognor Regis
Salary: £30,000 - £38,000 per annum
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Job Title: Senior Production Engineer

Do you have a degree or equivalent within Electronics Engineering? Do you have proven management skills? This is a fantastic opportunity to join a world leading company.

Job Overview:

Responsible for coordinating the NPI process from final design phase to full production release. Liaising with the Engineering Project Teams, NPI Technician, Production Engineering, production and supply chain in the successful transition and continued manufacturing support of new product designs and small projects through production. Ensuring projects are achieved on-time to budget

Provide production engineering leadership and technical expertise in support of assembly. This includes quality of and cost improvement through lean, value engineering and value analysis.

Lead the teams in optimizing existing processes and efficiently introducing new products and processes.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate the launch of new products and small projects into manufacturing through a controlled gate process, in conjunction with engineering, production and supply chain.
  • Providing DFM (design for manufacture) input on NPI projects to design engineering team.
  • Track and report on product costs related to NPI in conjunction with supply chain and manufacturing processes.
  • Support supply chain and production to achieve product target costs.
  • Obtaining and coordinating all manufacturing documentation for NPI.
  • Working with design Engineering and manufacturing to support NPI builds through various development phases.
  • Maintain NPI plans and progress and report to Director of Manufacturing as well as NPI Teams, project progress.
  • Seek for best practices through continuous improvement tools to minimize product and project costs.
  • Ability to track progress through the use of project management tools.
  • Coordination with the supply chain team (purchasing and machine shop) to deliver manufacturing parts within project timescales.

Production Engineering Support

  • Use Lean techniques to enhance the capability of existing processes by removing waste - e.g. over processing, high set up times, rework and bottlenecks.
  • Use problem solving data and techniques to identify improvements in safety, quality, and cost to assembly processes.
  • Assist with identifying and justifying capital equipment investment.
  • Introduce new process equipment and techniques to optimise efficiency and output
  • Develop robust and cost effective manufacturing solutions.

Qualifications and experience:

  • Degree or equivalent within Electronics Engineering (or similar) - OR
  • Technical apprenticeship followed by HNC/ HND or equivalent in an Electronics engineering discipline.
  • Proven management skills in either a Manufacturing Engineering or Production Engineering role.
  • Strong Lean practitioner skills.
  • Design for manufacturing knowledge.

ACS are recruiting for a Senior Production Engineer If you feel that you have the skills and experience required in this advertisement to be a Senior Production Engineer please submit your CV including an outline of your experience as a Senior Production Engineer It is always a good idea to include a covering letter outlining your experience as Senior Production Engineer with your application as this will enhance your chances of selection and improve your prospects of landing the Senior Production Engineer role you desire.