Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Location
Leicester | United Kingdom
Job description
- Manage Manufacturing Engineering team to deliver day to day support.
- Short Term - Build CI Foundations - Standard Work, 5S, Visual Management
- Long term - Build a CI/Leam/6 Sigma in Manufacturing
- Exploring and implementing new ways to automate existing production lines. Create business case to justify new manufacturing processes and implement on global scale.
- Conduct research, development, and deployment of manufacturing automation technology into global manufacturing facilities.
- Support digital manufacturing initiatives by leading proof of concept (POC) studies and scale them to production levels.
- Support the development, implementation, and operation of Industry 4.0 and IIoT initiatives.
- Drive maturity of the overall plant knowledge of technology, adoption of new technologies, and ensure factories in the regions have the best access to the latest technological thinking and possible solutions.
- Collaborate with other manufacturing departments such as quality, materials, EHS, and facilities to provide innovative solutions
- Lead and provide support for the justification and selection of major capital equipment
- Apply project management skills (schedule, cost, communications) and coordination of internal and external resources to execute projects in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Solid understanding of data connectivity, within the manufacturing environment.
- Collaborate with other business segments and report status to the Global Ops Team.
- Designing and testing automation equipment and processes
Job tags
Salary
£40k - £45k per annum
