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Principal Manufacturing Engineer
The Principal Manufacturing Engineer is a critical function to create, deliver and implement improvements within the manufacturing facility.
Extensive experience in a similar manufacturing environment is essential; large equipment/plant assembly, fabrication, structural steel, skid mounted plant.
Package
- Salary to 47K - 53k
- 25 days Holiday
- Private healthcare & pension
My client is an established global manufacturer of large engineered-to-order equipment supplying throughout EMEA from their Droitwich, UK site.
The Role
- Drive process improvements/business transformations/design and implement modern techniques and tooling / fixtures.
- Evaluating and improving quality control processes, production processes, methods, schedules, downtime, cycle times, availability of machines and waste management
- Ensuring compliance
- Reviewing and calculating costs
- Planning workflow, space requirements and equipment placement to maximise manufacturing efficiency using MRP/ERP
- Coordinating maintenance services
Requirements
- Highly experienced Principle or Senior Manufacturing Engineer
- Background in a engineered to order (ETO) / fabrication & assembly environment, structural steel
- Exposure to Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, or other formal productivity improvement programs (Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt preferred).
- Strong systems background in MRP/ERP, project management, scheduling, inventory management and general accounting
- AutoCAD/ Solidworks would be an advantage.
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