Additive Manufacturing Engineer

The MTC (Manufacturing Technology Centre) is a major success story. One of the UK’s most advanced Research & Technology Organisations, championing world leading manufacturing and engineering innovation.

Created in 2011, it represents one of the largest public sector investments in UK manufacturing and has since grown to a team of over 800 spread several facilities covering not only R&D, but also Training, Advanced Manufacturing Management and Factory Design across multiple businesses and sectors.

Working in partnership with Consilium Recruit from launch, we seek career driven and agile talent from industry, academia, and other leading organisations to work in this truly unique centre of excellence.

Benefits – beyond salary, the MTC provides one of the most extensive and progressive benefits packages available, designed to inspire, develop and reward employees to the full including:

• Fully flexible working including compressed hours, remote working, part-time hours, flexible start and finish times. And career breaks. Tell us what works for you and don’t let anything stop you from applying!  
• Enhanced Holiday leave with accumulated days plus option to buy & sell
• Private Health Insurance from Vitality Health
• Life Insurance
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Income Protection in the event of long-term illness or incapacity to work
• Salary Sacrifice (tax efficient Bike 2 Work plus Car Lease Scheme including competitive on-site EV charging)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity support
• Professional subscriptions paid plus access to Leadership Academy
• Long service recognition plus contribution awards
• Envious working environment with free parking, excellent public transport links, employee discounts and on-site canteen, plus more…

The Role         

The Additive Manufacturing Engineer role is to turn a customer demand (a specification) into a method of manufacture that can then be executed to meet the customer demand within the required lead-time and cost.

The ME has responsibility to continuously improve manufacturing methods in order to reduce lead-time, reduce cost and minimise the chance of non-conformance.

As highly skilled practitioners, MEs are expected to be involved in the operation of the manufacturing processes to deliver the final product.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Working with the research themes their practical insight will be used to influence technology roadmaps to ensure that future manufacturing capability is developed and deployed into the Workshop to further optimise our manufacturing methods.
• Manufacturing Engineers will manage non-conformance, to create methods to bring non-conforming product back within specification.
• Support the ongoing development of MTCs manufacturing engineering capability through bringing best practice manufacturing engineering techniques into our operations.
• Enable innovative designs to be realised through providing manufacturing advice, process development and validation.

The Person

The successful candidate for the role of Additive Manufacturing Engineer will have/be:

• Degree qualified in an Engineering, Industrial based qualification or equivalent experience in Manufacturing discipline.
• Experience of developing and producing method of manufacture along with process development.
• Ability to translate customer requirements/models and technical drawings into a Method and Sequence of Manufacture and able to develop flow charts and associated documentation.
• Experience in using Materialise Magics to process CAD files for manufacture in laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) along with experience with machine related software to create build files and parameter development.
• Design for manufacture skills relating to laser powder bed fusion.
• Experience in operating L-PBF, polymer, Metal Binder Jetting and novel AM equipment.
• Experience of leading design for manufacture assessments and PFMEAs with cross functional teams.
• Basic lean knowledge including VSM, 5S etc
  Good analytical skills and can use data to present case
  Can manage own workload within a team
  Comfortable presenting in front of senior stakeholders and clients
  Willing and able to visit customer sites.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are integral to everything that we do.  We are committed to these values and they are central to our mission.  We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities, and we are more than happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require.

To apply for the position of Additive Manufacturing Engineer forward an up to date copy of your CV to Matthew Fielding.