Design Manufacturing Engineer

Design Manufacturing Engineer (Mechanical)          

Farnborough  

3-6 months

£256.00 /day  

Tasks & Accountabilities:

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

Creating 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 (including benchmarking).

Use of the CAD (CATIA v6, Solidworks) & PLM(Windchill) toolset and BOM(SAP) administration/configuration control (co-ordinate with design)

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)

Liaison with Manufacturing System Engineering. (Process flow, line balancing, capital investment items, facilities requirements)

Required Skills & Experience:

•           Innovative, agile and self-driven in a fast paced and changing environment.

•           Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline

•           Experience in a Manufacturing Engineering discipline

•           Knowledge of CFRP part fabrication / layup production techniques

•           Knowledge of Aerospace Production and assembly techniques and standards

•           Experience creating or improving production systems, teams and facilities

•           Excellent communication skills.

•           Demonstrated Experience solving technical operational issues

•           Able to work in a multi-function team and matrix organisation

•           IT & CAD Skills

•           English to Negotiation Level

Preferred Skills:

•           Flexibility to support multiple locations

•           Able to obtain Security Clearance

For more information please contact John Paul at Protec Technical Ltd.