Process and Performance Engineer

Process & Performance Engineer Location: Staverton (On-site, 5 days per week) Hours: 37 hours per week (Core hours: 7am-4pm or 8am-5pm, with early finish Friday) Are you an engineering-minded problem solver who loves improving processes, challenging norms, and delivering real operational results? Here at Saint Gobain Abrasives, we're looking for a Process & Performance Engineer to join our Staverton manufacturing site, producing high-precision, bespoke dresser products. What You'll Be Doing Reviewing current manufacturing processes and identifying opportunities for improvement. Investigating quality rejects, understanding why issues occur, and putting robust corrective actions in place. Leading and supporting projects focused on process improvement and performance optimisation. Using tracker tools and data to understand trends, ask the right questions, and challenge what doesn't make sense. Applying Lean, Six Sigma or WCM tools to improve efficiency and capability. Supporting compliance to ISO standards (ISO 9001 & 14001). Contributing to our Manufacturing 4.0 journey by helping introduce modern, digital tools and methods. Providing on-the-ground engineering support to maintain smooth, efficient production.What We're Looking For Engineering mindset - ideally mechanical, production, or similar. Understanding of manufacturing processes and machinery. Experience delivering improvements, leading small projects, or influencing change. Comfortable spotting problems, asking "why?", and challenging existing ways of working. Knowledge of WCM, Lean, Six Sigma or similar methods (nice to have). Understanding of ISO standards or quality systems (desirable). Analytical approach with strong problem-solving skills and sound judgement. Confident communicator who can work well with production teams, engineers, and wider stakeholders.Why Join Us? Work with bespoke engineering products in a high-precision environment. Ownership and autonomy drive meaningful improvement projects. Opportunity to grow your career within a global, innovative engineering organisation. Supportive team culture where continuous improvement is at the heart of what we do. Early Friday finish! About us Saint-Gobain Abrasives Manufactures and distributes high quality abrasive products to engineering, distribution and retail markets in the UK Are Saint-Gobain Inclusive employer? We're working hard to be, and we're keen to hire talented people regardless of their background, abilities, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, taste in music, fashion sense or anything else that makes you, you! We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us. And what about flexibility? The world of work is changing, and at Saint-Gobain we are open to new ways of working in order to attract talented people to our business. We understand that everyone has different needs and commitments. Therefore, we are very open to discuss any flexible requirement or need that you may have for this role. We can't guarantee to meet all requests for flexibility when we are recruiting, but we promise to listen