Days

£60,000

Willenhall

What are we recruiting for?

A Precision engineering company who is going through an exciting expansion is looking for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join their manufacturing facility in the West Midlands.

Working with Aerospace, Automotive & Oil & Gas industries this opportunity offers development and progression.

What will you be doing?

• Support Manufacturing activities by directing best methods of manufacture
• Deliver technical engineering support to both production and quality team
• Lead internal facing engineering to deliver continued growth to the business; target areas of improvement using both personal experience and research bolstered by a LEAN approach
• Lead front-end engineering to deliver continued growth to the business; target potential areas within the business that require additional work and grow portfolio and capabilities
• Support New business team to target sectors of growth and deliver engineering solutions to prospective customers by face to face presentations or by technical instructions.
• Produce in depth timing plans to support production on NPI projects.
• To plan and design the manufacturing process to the shopfloor.
• To closely support the operational team including programming CNC Milling and Turning machines to meet customer demand.
• Assist manufacturing engineers when planning work to deliver best method of manufacture
• Support Quality by assisting with metrology methods

What will you bring to the party?

• Must have at least 10 years’ experience as a Manufacturing Engineer or Supervisor
• Experience in all fields of Mechanical machining and all types of materials
• Vast experience in product roll out and production release of parts
• Experience in a subcontract machine shop
• Experience of CNC machining in a precision engineering environment
• High level of CNC programming competency in Fanuc Heidenhain languages.
• Must have programming experience in both turning and milling capabilities, ideally up to 5 axis (3+2) with strong knowledge of setting, operating, and programming.
• Experienced in 3D modelling, preferably with Solidworks and Visi.
• Offline programming, familiarity with VISI CAM package highly desired.
• Must have a high level of knowledge in both GD&T and drawing standards
• Must have a high level of knowledge surrounding technical specifications on materials, metrology , surface treatments, hardness methods
• Must have knowledge of tooling and fixtures in addition to lean manufacturing principles, to aid process improvements and efficiencies in machining capabilities.