Job summary

The Senior Manufacturing Engineer assists with providing leadership and expert knowledge to the engineering team, providing manufacturing documentation and engineering support to ensure the day-to-day manufacturing build requirements are met.

Key skills required for this role

Electronics manufacturing, Project & production planning, BoM, Process improvement, Production build packs

Important

Electronics manufacturing, Project & production planning, BoM, Process improvement, Production build packs

Job description

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Fareham

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000

Global manufacturer of world class PCBA & electronics operating from two modern factories covering 21,000 sq. ft. for various industry sectors such as military & defence, Automotive, Aerospace, Transportation, Medical and healthcare etc.

Role Overview
The Senior Manufacturing Engineer reports to the Engineering Manager and assists with providing leadership and expert knowledge to the engineering team. They are responsible for providing manufacturing documentation and engineering support to ensure the day-to-day manufacturing build requirements are met.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Degree-level qualification in electronics or demonstrable experience and knowledge of electronic principles is essential.
• Experience of electronic manufacturing is essential.
• Knowledge of project planning is important.
• Understanding of configuration control is important.

Key Responsibilities

• Liaise with the Operations Manager, Production & MPS, to assist with prioritising work requiring Production Build Packs (creating new documentation as required).
• Communicate any problems of an internal nature to the Engineering Manager and to communicate with Customers on problems or process issues.
• Configuration control of all supplied documents & engineering packs.
• To ensure products manufactured conform to customer approval requirements.
• Inputting Bills of Materials and signing off Bills of Materials inputted on Progress Plus by other employees.
• Ensure the process/production engineering department is adding value to the business by implementing suitable tooling and improving key processes identified either internally by department members or by KPIs.
• To ensure customer design changes are carried out at agreed implementation points.
• Play an active role in process improvement groups to help find the root cause of faults and eliminate them.
• NPI.
• Provide design for manufacture feedback to customers and prospective customers to ensure products are optimized for assembly using Phoenix processes.

Relationships
The Senior Manufacturing Engineer will be expected to work with all areas of the business, customers, and suppliers at a technical level.

Key Personal Skills

• Excellent communicator, written and verbal.
• Supervisory or Team Leading experience preferred.
• Disciplined and controlled approach.
• Strong eye for detail and the ability to maintain accurate records.
• Responsive.
• Must be able to work under own initiative to solve problems.
• Highly motivated and able to motivate others to achieve.
• Calm and collected, with the ability to work under pressure.

Apply now to become our client's Senior Manufacturing Engineer!