CNC Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer Precision

Are you a Production or Manufacturing Engineer with a hands on CNC background from a Precision Manufacturing background looking for an exciting opportunity ?

Then get in touch! Kingston Barnes has an exciting opportunity for a Manufacturing Engineer for one of our clients in North Somerset.

The Role:

* Day-to-day production support across a variety of manufacturing processes, including turning, milling and grinding

* Actively contribute to the channel cross functional team solving daily issues

* Data driven process capability and process improvement activities

* Customer interface for engineering changes

* Technical interface with suppliers

* New product introduction activities, including manufacturing process and layout creation, prototyping and serial production support

* Lead costing and quoting exercises

* Defining manufacturing instructions, CNC machine program creation (CAM) and creating technical documents

* Support implementation of new CNC equipment

* Support reduction of scrap, loss and rework through process control and improvement

* Liaise with Design Office, Supply Chain, Planning, Customer Service, EHS and Quality Assurance functions

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

* 5+ years experience in a manufacturing environment

* HNC/Degree in a technical discipline

* Problem solving experience (5Why, A3, 8D)

* Process knowledge of either turning, milling and/or grinding

* New Product Introduction experience

Desirable

* Experience of NC programming for single and multi-functional equipment, CAM experience beneficial

* Experience with SAP or similar ERP systems

* Experience in an aerospace manufacturing environment

* Appreciation of aerospace bearing products and their applications

* Knowledge of lean or 6sigma tools

* IT literate, interest in IoT and digitalisation

* IEng/CEng accreditation or similar, or a desire to work towards

* Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK to apply for this position