Continuous Improvment Engineer
Posted 05/04/2024 by Entech Technical Solutions Limited
Continuous Improvement Engineer
Onsite in Leamington Spa
This role is suitable for candidates with previous experience as a Manufacturing Engineer with a proven background working in a machine shop with extensive knowledge of tooling, CNC machine tools including multi-tasking, 5 - axis, universal – grinding, gear grinding and shaping.
Key accountabilities:
Onsite in Leamington Spa
This role is suitable for candidates with previous experience as a Manufacturing Engineer with a proven background working in a machine shop with extensive knowledge of tooling, CNC machine tools including multi-tasking, 5 - axis, universal – grinding, gear grinding and shaping.
Key accountabilities:
- • Working within the Continuous Improvement team you will ensure that all production orders are ‘machine ready’ to ensure schedule adherence.
- • Proactively work alongside Manufacturing, Operations, Quality functions and suppliers to maintain and enhance processes.
- • You will actively contribute to annual cost save, emissions reduction and shop floor recovery targets.
Additional/special features of the role:
- • Own, complete, report out and handover to operations any CI projects assigned to you.
- • Maintain an active shop-floor presence promoting and encouraging lean principles.
- • Reporting back and reacting to manufacturing issues from production and ad hoc meetings.
- • Work alongside operations and manufacturing to ensure smooth NPI transition to production.
- • Working alongside all other functions in DFM and PFMEA for new projects.
- • Actively assist all CI team members in closing projects on time.
- • Identify potential improvement activities.
- • Support Operations with day to day issue resolution.
- • Mentor and engage with operators to encourage an improvement culture.
- • Maintain a Teamwork approach and actively share knowledge with peers.
- • Liaise with Quality Engineers to ensure improvements to our Total Cost of Quality, On Time in Full, delivery and other KPIs.
- • Act on key manufacturing performance metrics.
- • Knowledge of niche volume manufacturing environment.
- • Lean manufacturing skills, 8D, 5 Why and 6 sigma knowledge.
- • Data analysis skills would be advantageous.
- • Experience of machining a wide range of precision components with complex routings and multiple operations.
Desirable Experience
- Experience of working in a precision, small batch, low volume production environment (Automotive / Aerospace / Defence or similar industry).
- Gear form manufacturing knowledge/experience.
- Heat Treatment knowledge/experience.
- CAD/CAM programming experience.
- 3D modelling experience.
- Multi spindle machining experience/knowledge.
- Type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start Date:
- 04/04/2024
- Contract Length:
- N/A
- Contact Name:
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- Job Reference:
- J457P
- Job ID:
- 221423423
- Applications:
- Less than 10
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