Manufacturing Engineer

The Rewards and Benefits on offer: * A full time and permanent role from day 1! * Career growth and progression opportunities * A competitive basic salary * Company pensions * Options for share schemes * Holiday Allowance * Immediate starts available! MTrec’s new job opportunity: MTrec Technical is proudly representing a prestigious, long-established manufacturing company in their search for a highly skilled Manufacturing Engineer. Our client is renowned for their innovation, quality, and reliability, they serve a diverse client base with a broad and respected product portfolio. This is a business that not only delivers excellence to its customers but also invests heavily in its people. With clear pathways for development and progression, they have earned a strong reputation as an employer of choice within the industry. Apply today for immediate consideration and take the next step in your engineering career! The Job you will do: * Analyse and report on manufacturing processes, identify value-added and non-value-added activities utilizing lean manufacturing, kaizen, Six Sigma, and root-cause analysis to formulate and support innovation, corrective actions, and improvements. * Create and maintain documentation for manufacturing processes, including flow charts, capacity and utilisation studies, time and motion studies, standard work, cycle time analysis. * Coordinate maintenance and repair services to keep production equipment operational and report on availability of machines. * Propose development and maintenance of tools, dies, jigs, and fixtures for manufacturing processes. * Document tooling processes, modifications and specifications for future reference. * Identify opportunities for preventing waste during production. * Optimize facility layouts. * Conduct cost analyses and make recommendations for cost-saving measures. * Ensure that the organisation’s manufacturing processes comply with relevant policies and government laws and regulations * Work with cross-functional teams to establish and maintain customer and internal quality standards. * Train and educate manufacturing personnel on new processes and equipment. * Be an advocate of the right first time quality principle * Maintain the BOM and implement technical requirements. * Lead new product implementation. * Lead engineering change requests in a timely manner. * Liaison with external parties as required (customers, suppliers, etc.). * Carry out root cause analysis of issues, implement robust actions to prevent reoccurrence. About you: * Qualified to HNC level or relevant experience with equivalent qualifications. * Experienced in problem solving techniques with strong analytical skills. * Understanding of quality controls (FMEA, control plan, etc) and implementation/improvement of quality control systems. * Systematic and logical approach. * Ability in reading and understanding technical drawings, specifications and reports. * Experience in conducting technical analysis of products and evaluating compliance and non-compliance against test specification