Our client, a manufacturing business in West Yorkshire, seek to appoint a Production Engineer to improve manufacturing techniques to reduce cycle times, remove waste, and increase quality and repeatability. Working alongside multiple departments you will be a good communicator able to quickly integrate.
Reporting in to the Manufacturing Manager the appointed Production Engineer will also produce tooling aids for ease of manufacture and be the point of contact within the lean function to answer queries on production engineering for the quality, production, maintenance and design departments. The ideal Production Engineer will come from a fast-moving high volume component manufacturing background: plastic, glass, electronics, food, automotive, etc.
Production Engineer - Role and Responsibilities:
- Address root causes of process and yield issues. Work with quality department and understand 4D/8D/Root Cause Analysis. Implement CAPA
- Increase OEE and reduce machine downtime. Work with maintenance and advise on TPM/PPM
- Make improvements to processes and production techniques. Work with production to reduce lead times, improve tooling and changeovers, and drive greater performance from existing staff
- Lead Design Reviews and report back to RandD to allow the design of easily manufacturable products. Liaise with Lean Engineers. Knowledge of SMED/POKE YOKE techniques
Production Engineer - Skills and Abilities:
- Extensive experience of production engineering: layout, continuous flow, SMED, CAPEX, planning, capacity modelling/simulation, costing
- Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement knowledge. Six Sigma training preferred but not essential
- HND/Degree qualified in Production or Manufacturing Engineering
- Knowledge of high volume manufacturing (plastic, glass, electronics, food, automotive, etc)
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