Senior Product Engineer

Senior Product Engineer
Location: Hailsham,
Salary: Competitive, DOE
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Benefits: A competitive salary, private medical insurance, 25 days holiday, salary sacrifice company pension, life insurance, a state-of-the-art working environment!
  
As pioneers in the field of UHV technology, Our clients focus is on innovation, reliability and quality has helped great minds take great leaps forward. The Products our client manufacturer from are widely used by the world's leading Universities and research institutions, from NASA and the European Space Agency to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Our client remains the partner of choice for the next generation of researchers, innovators and builders. From our UK high tech manufacturing base, our focus is on delivering enabling technologies and supporting our customers across industry and academia.
At their new, purpose-built manufacturing facility in East Sussex they have entered an exciting new phase in our development as they embark on an ambitious expansion programme.
  
Our client is recruiting for a Senior Product Engineer to join their team ensuring our products are delivered on time, to specification and within budget and to the best DFMA principles.
  
Senior Product Engineer - The Role:
You will be an integral part of the Engineering team ensuring our products are delivered on time, to specification and within budget and to the best DFMA principles.
Provide manufacturing engineering support for the design and development team and lead and contribute to projects that reduce costs and improve and maintain quality.
  
Product Development

• Maintain project management processes and deliver development projects on budget and time
• Perform feasibility study on select NPI's
• Check detail drawings to BS 8888 (308)
• Locate new and maintain existing supplier collaboration partners for product developments
• Create BOM's and planning sheets for new products & systems.
• Ensure that all data is provided to Operations in the correct format
• Carry out FMEA

  
Cost Reduction

• Identify cost-out opportunities in the current range and define and deliver on projects
• Support sourcing and actively take part in in/outsourcing projects to improve profitability
• Support manufacturing and actively take part in in/outsourcing projects to improve profitability

Technical Innovation and Competitive Position

• Keep up to date with technical innovation in the UHV & manufacturing areas
• Understand competitive position and perform reverse engineering and bench marking of competitive products

  
Engineering Changes

• Support the engineering change system in a timely and controlled manner, calling upon other team members to assist when appropriate.
• Ensure up to date drawings are available in manufacturing
• Root cause engineering problems and seek to eliminate

  
Custom Design

• Provide engineering support for quotations and technical inquiries
• Provide timely production engineering support for custom orders to agreed deadlines

  
Quality

• Identify and deliver on opportunities to improve quality through redesign/production engineering.

  
People and Budget

• Assist in providing data on metrics for display publicly
• Provide technical support to other team members and help them to check their work

  
Communication

• Ensure that team is aware of current ‘best practices' for DFM
• Ensure that drawing numbers are allocated correctly and that the registers are maintained.
• Liaise with department leaders to maintain open communication with them and their reports

  
Senior Product Engineer - Essential Skills & Experience:
HNC/D in Mechanical and Production Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Degree
Experience in Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA)
Ability to read technical drawings
Root cause analysis experience
Production Engineering of components and assemblies experience
Experienced using Microsoft Office products
Project costing & quotation experience
Outgoing energetic personality
Well organised and structured
Passion for people and technology
Good communicator across all engineering disciplines and levels of ability.
Able to manage own time effectively.
Ability to mentor other engineers.
Fluent in English.
  
Desirable Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years in similar role
• Experience of Microsoft Dynamics
• Ability to lead small teams

  
TPA are a specialist recruitment agency recruiting on behalf of our client. If you think you are a close fit for this position, please apply and we will also register you for any upcoming positions that may be suitable.