Senior Product Engineer

Location: Hailsham, BN27 4EL
Salary: Competitive, DOE
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Benefits: A competitive salary, private medical insurance, 25 days holiday, salary sacrifice company pension, life insurance, a state-of-the-art working environment!

Since 1964, we have been the name on everyone’s lips when they think about high quality ultra-high vacuum products and services.

As pioneers in the field of UHV technology, Vacgen’s focus on innovation, reliability and quality has helped great minds take great leaps forward. Products from VACGEN are widely used by the world’s leading Universities and research institutions, from NASA and the European Space Agency to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

VACGEN remains the partner of choice for the next generation of researchers, innovators and builders. From our UK high tech manufacturing base, our focus is on delivering enabling technologies and supporting our customers across industry and academia.

At our new, purpose-built manufacturing facility near Hailsham, East Sussex we have entered an exciting new phase in our development as we embark on an ambitious expansion programme.

Are you looking for the next step in your career? Could you be the right person to fill one of our positions?

We are now recruiting for a Senior Product Engineer to join our team ensuring our products are delivered on time, to specification and within budget and to the best DFMA principles.

Senior Product Engineer – The Role:

You will be an integral part of the Engineering team ensuring our products are delivered on time, to specification and within budget and to the best DFMA principles.

Provide manufacturing engineering support for the design and development team and lead and contribute to projects that reduce costs and improve and maintain quality.

Product Development

•    Maintain project management processes and deliver development projects on budget and time
•    Perform feasibility study on select NPI’s
•    Check detail drawings to BS 8888 (308)
•    Locate new and maintain existing supplier collaboration partners for product developments
•    Create BOM’s and planning sheets for new products & systems.
•    Ensure that all data is provided to Operations in the correct format
•    Carry out FMEA

Cost Reduction

•    Identify cost-out opportunities in the current range and define and deliver on projects
•    Support sourcing and actively take part in in/outsourcing projects to improve profitability
•    Support manufacturing and actively take part in in/outsourcing projects to improve profitability

Technical Innovation and Competitive Position

•    Keep up to date with technical innovation in the UHV & manufacturing areas
•    Understand competitive position and perform reverse engineering and bench marking of competitive products

Engineering Changes

•    Support the engineering change system in a timely and controlled manner, calling upon other team members to assist when appropriate.
•    Ensure up to date drawings are available in manufacturing
•    Root cause engineering problems and seek to eliminate

Custom Design

•    Provide engineering support for quotations and technical inquiries
•    Provide timely production engineering support for custom orders to agreed deadlines

Quality

•    Identify and deliver on opportunities to improve quality through redesign/production engineering.

People and Budget

•    Assist in providing data on metrics for display publicly
•    Provide technical support to other team members and help them to check their work

Communication

•    Ensure that team is aware of current ‘best practices’ for DFM
•    Ensure that drawing numbers are allocated correctly and that the registers are maintained.
•    Liaise with department leaders to maintain open communication with them and their reports

Senior Product Engineer – Essential Skills & Experience:

•    HNC/D in Mechanical and Production Engineering
•    Mechanical Engineering Degree
•    Experience in Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA)
•    Ability to read technical drawings
•    Root cause analysis experience
•    Production Engineering of components and assemblies experience
•    Experienced using Microsoft Office products
•    Project costing & quotation experience
•    Outgoing energetic personality
•    Well organised and structured
•    Passion for people and technology
•    Good communicator across all engineering disciplines and levels of ability.
•    Able to manage own time effectively.
•    Ability to mentor other engineers.
•    Fluent in English.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•    10+ years in similar role
•    Experience of Microsoft Dynamics
•    Ability to lead small teams

If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in this role click on “APPLY” today, forwarding an up to date copy of your CV for consideration in the first instance.

No agencies please.