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Electronics Engineering/Manufacturing Specialist

Mission 4 Recruitment Ltd
Posted 15 hours ago, valid for a month
Location

Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG2 7BG

Salary

£35,000 - £42,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Electronics Engineering/Manufacturing Specialist position is with a leading distributor of products and logistical services for electronic equipment, primarily in the defense sector.
  • The role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in electronics manufacturing, specifically with Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA).
  • The successful candidate will work closely with procurement and project teams, managing supplier relationships and ensuring project delivery within contract specifications.
  • The position offers a competitive salary of £300m in estimated sales for the company, along with benefits such as an onsite gym, 22 days of holiday, and a pension plan.
  • Candidates should possess strong technical knowledge of Contract Electronic Manufacturing (CEM) or Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) and excellent commercial awareness.

Electronics Engineering/Manufacturing Specialist

Our client is a distributor of products and logistical services to manufacturers of electronic equipment. They support many industries including automotive, medical and security, but the bulk of their activity is within the defence and harsh environment sectors. They stand as one of the largest distributors of its type with industry leading anti-counterfeit testing laboratories, over 200 employees worldwide and estimated sales of £300m.

They are looking to recruit an experienced and competent person with experience in electronics manufacturing and more specifically PCBA.

The role will sit in between the procurement and project teams, and you will be involved from the concept phase to delivery. This would involve working closely with procurement to find the right suppliers and once the project is up and running you will be working on implementation and delivery.

Alongside your technical electronics expertise, this is also very much a customer and supplier focused role. It is therefore important that you have excellent commercial awareness as you will be dealing with clients and suppliers both on and off site. You must also have good procedural and process skills.

You may come from a contract manufacturing background or procurement, account management engineering or sales but it is imperative that you have technical knowledge of CEM or EMS manufacturing within electronics and PCBA

Principal Accountabilities:

  • The successful candidate will show the ability to engage at a technical and manufacturing level with Contract Electronic Manufacturing, Electronic Manufacturing Services and other key sub-tier manufacturing services companies. These companies are both suppliers and customers, providing complex manufacturing services managed and delivered by the 3PL division.
  • Technical knowledge of the CEM or EMS manufacturing environment is key, building strong relationships with engineering, manufacturing and account/project management teams is crucial to delivering the solutions their customers need.
  • Able to work daily with suppliers and partners in supporting the expansive growth plans the company and 3PL have. A strong orderbook and growing industry mix, and customer base provides an excellent basis to develop this key role, creating and improving the company’s already strong position within the electronics market.

Knowledge, Skills and Personal Attributes

  • Delivering projects on time, on cost and with the scope of contract
  • Creating and meeting contracted manufacturing timelines and objectives
  • Process creation, improvement, and management.
  • Configuration control accuracy
  • Data management and reporting of manufacturing status within project
  • Technical compliance
  • Customer SBR/QBR’s
  • Sales and GP against quarterly targets.
  • Contractual customer KPI’s
  • Suppliers’ contractual obligations

Essential:

  • People Engagement
  • Contract and subcontract compliance
  • Configuration control
  • Excel/Project tool competence
  • Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) knowledge
  • Supplier risk assessment and management
  • Fine attention to detail
  • Strong business system capability (eg INFOR, Microsoft BI, Excel, MS Visio)
  • Process Improvement and efficiency
  • Electronics Engineering

Desirable:

  • "People person" with the ability to engage across all functions of team
  • Willingness to embrace change
  • Driven by program milestones and incentives
  • Ability to deal with conflict
  • Technical mindset
  • Be able to build relationships and influence people at all levels of both engineering and commercial teams
  • Understand the importance of and develop relationships with key stakeholders internally such as department managers, directors, and sales teams, critical to the role development and support in business growth.
  • Detail oriented
  • Process driven

Perks and Benefits!

  • Onsite Gym
  • 22 days holiday - Plus bank holidays. Plus Xmas shutdown
  • Perk Box
  • Virtual Care - GP Service
  • Pension

Despite our best efforts it is not always possible to respond to every application individually due to the high volume of responses we receive on each vacancy

Only candidates who are shortlisted will be contacted for this particular role and if you have not heard from us within 7 days, please assume that you have not be successful. However, we will keep your details on our database, and will contact you when other suitable positions come in.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.