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Clevedon
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the manufacturing system within the allocated manufacturing cells in a manual assembly production facility, with products involving a mix of electrical, mechanical and pneumatic assembly.
- Create, maintain and continually improve safe and lean assembly and test processes for existing and new products.
- Document, implement, own and continuously improve the manufacturing cell's Lean manufacturing processes
- Accountable for the definition, set up and optimisation of the processes within the allocated manufacturing cells
- Implement continuous improvement activities and projects
- Design or optimise, prove, implement and maintain cell layouts
- Implement and maintain risk assessments for allocated manufacturing cells, including the authoring of safe systems of work
- Specification and purchasing of the appropriate tooling and equipment for the allocated manufacturing cells
- Ensure configuration control of operational documentation in compliance to current regulations in terms of ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001
- Ownership and accountability to resolve or support any non-conformity, internal or external, impacting the manufacturing process
- Elimination of routing and material variances with the allocated manufacturing cells
- React to production feedback and manufacturing lessons learnt to influence design revision or correction through the engineering change process
Essential Experience & Skills
- Equivalent experience in a comparable role (essential)
- Process documentation authoring, writing of procedures and work instructions (essential)
- Experience in optimising production processes as well as providing production support (essential)
- Experience of problem solving and or utilising root cause analysis tools in a manufacturing environment (essential)
- Able to work cross functionally, communicate and build working relationships at all levels (essential)
- Ability to develop technical solutions, to requirements, within agreed timescales (essential)
- IT literacy proficient user of MS Office and similar applications used in an office environment (essential)
- Understands engineering drawings, schematics and diagrams (essential)
Desirable Experience & Skills
- Mechanical, Electrical or Manufacturing Engineering degree or engineering qualification (desirable)
- Experience in implementing the principles of Lean manufacturing (desirable)
- Tooling design and development (desirable)
- Technical knowledge including mechanical, electrical and pneumatics (desirable)
- Basic CAD skills for layout design and design model interrogation (desirable)
- MRP/ERP system use SAP (desirable)
- DFM/PFMEA awareness (desirable)
- Experience in implementing change, change management (desirable)
- Risk assessments and understanding of compliance requirements to health and safety, environmental and quality regulations (desirable)
- Project management experience, including risk, schedule and cost (desirable)
