Production Engineering Lead

Production Engineering Lead – Scientific Instrumentation – SE London/Kent

About the Company:

We are looking for a highly experienced production engineering to join an expanding instrumentation industry in the Southeast London/ Kent. The role links departments such as Engineering, Production, Supply Chain and Planning and ensures that products released to the shopfloor are ready for manufacturing and testing.

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in the creation and implementation of operational strategies.
• Supporting product development in providing input on design for manufacture (DFM).
• Overseeing relevant qualification/ validation.
• Designing tests.
• Process routing.
• Production times.
• NPI.
• Managing the Process Engineering team.
• Reporting.
• Managing SOP content and production documentation.
• Managing BOM.
• Championing Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.
• Identifying resource needs.
• Identifying areas for process improvement.
• Ensuring members of the team are motivated, coached, developed and mentored.
• Continuous improvement.
• Ensuring the correct representation from the team in production meetings.
• Provide input into NPD regarding manufacturability, final product consistency and cost optimisation.
• Reviewing change requests.
• Investigating customer complaints and managing resulting process improvement projects.

Requirements:

• Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Experience working closely with the product development team and NPI.
• Six sigma and lean manufacturing experience.
• Extensive production engineering experience.
• Experience working with electro-mechanical assembly.
• Experience in process flow mapping and Kanban.
• Cell design experience.
• An understanding of MRP and ERP systems.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience coaching, training and mentoring.
• Excellent communication and motivational skills.
• Strong IT skills.