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 floor plans and material flow.
- Document tooling and manufacturing aides - creating models and drawings using Solidworks.
Job Requirements:
- Green belt lean practitioner with practical experience in implementing lean initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing engineering from a mechanical assembly environment.
- Minimum of a HNC or higher in Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering.
- Experience using Solidworks CAD software.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
- Experience working with ERP systems.
- Experience with machined components.
- Comfortable interpreting drawings and creating inspection processes for components.
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing experience.
If you are an accomplished Manufacturing Engineer looking to apply your expertise within the Defence & Security sector, we encourage you to take this opportunity. Apply now!
