Manufacturing Engineer in Farnborough

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Job Description

MERITUS are recruiting for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our client within the Space sector on an initial 9 month contract to work on interesting satellite projects.

SENIOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER - INSIDE IR35 - £43.13 PER HOUR - FARNBOROUGH - SPACE SECTOR - 9 MONTHS - 2 STAGE INTERVIEW PROCESS

As a key member of the Manufacturing Engineering Team, your main tasks and responsibilities will be to provide hands-on enablement of design intent into a production system for a UAV's platforms to Safety, Quality, Cost and Time through:

• Design and qualification of a HAPS production system using Manufacturing System Engineering tools and processes. (Cellular production approach, Lean Process flow, line balancing, capital investment items, factory layout, simulation).
• Delivery of shop floor requirements to the HAPS Facilities Management team.
• Create/change MRP system shop floor routings/job card definitions/shop floor standard operating instructions (SOI's)/quality care cards
• Technical dossiers and support to procurement activities, supply chain monitoring and Make v Buy decisions.
• Technical problem solving and support to production and supply chain.
• Application of APQP as appropriate
• Perform Design For Manufacture (DFM)/Design To Cost (DTC) studies and provide input to design teams
• Liaison with MGSE/Jig & Tools (Design, Manufacture, Calibration & Maintenance)

You will also be responsible for:

• Deriving and enabling production KPI's in conjunction with operations teams.
• Continuous Improvement of the production system in line with business targets
• Enable Health and Safety target achievement.
• Enablement of the "Right First Time" Quality culture with associated business systems and feedback loops

Experience and Qualifications:

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

• Experience within the Aerospace and/or Space industry
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Avionics
  • Assembly, Integration, and Test
• Experience creating assembly process instructions.
• Experience creating ERP routings.
• Experience using RCCA methodology.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Excellent communication skills.
• English to negotiation level.

The candidate will ideally have experience with the following:

• Experience with creating/editing BoMs.
• Experience using PLM and ERP tools (eg Arena and Microsoft Dynamics 365).
• Experience with the creation of test plans in an Avionics environment.
• Experience working in a highly regulated industry (CAA; Part G; Part J; etc)

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