Job Title: Production Engineer
Location: Salisbury
Salary: £45,000 per annum
Job type: This role will be worked over a 37.5 hour working week; Monday to Friday. Flexibility in this role is critical to the success of supporting the team.
Chemring Countermeasures is a world leading and innovative company, designing and developing countermeasure solutions to armed forces throughout the world. We are part of the Chemring Group of companies and have a solid global infrastructure, which also helps us to thrive.
The Production Engineer will be responsible for defining all aspects of the production method including defining machining, equipment, work instructions, drawings and tools as required.
The responsibilities of the role are as follows:
- Deliver all elements required for successful New Product introduction and method changes, ensuring safe working procedures.
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the manufacturing processes and procedures.
- Ensure that products meet the requirements of customers, quality standards and external stakeholders.
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve processes and working practices and take responsibility for implementing improvement actions.
- Identify and document process instructions.
- Implement and carry out initial running of new processes.
- Deliver rapid problem solving to minimise the impact of product non-conformance.
- Take the lead in Process Management of Change (MoC) board as necessary, to enable amendment to tooling, equipment and work instructions accordingly.
- Support in the training of production personnel in the use of equipment, tooling and processes.
- Project manage new and improved processes.
Person Specification
- Right to live and work in the UK, with ability to obtain SC level clearance (5 years British residency necessary)
- Level 4 NVQ in engineering discipline or technical area
- Knowledge of Production Engineering either from Defence or Aerospace (preferred), high tech manufacturing or precision engineering
- Demonstrate working knowledge of new product introduction
- Ability to compile risk assessments and report writing
- Experience of working on Hazops, desirable
- Proficient in MS Office
Knowledge/Experience Required:
- Carry out risk assessments to identify and implement safe working procedures.
- To identify and document process instructions.
- Follow NPP process.
- To maintain the Work Instructions.
- To provide buildings, services, tooling, and equipment in support of the production programme.
- In conjunction with area supervision, to set up and carry out initial running of new processes.
- Compile technical reports.
- Identify and Cost capital projects.
- To identify production improvement opportunities.
- To train production personnel in the use of equipment, tooling and processes.
- Prepare and coordinate Process Management of Change; amending tooling, equipment and Work Instructions accordingly.
- Maintain the tool drawings & register.
- Compile Capex applications.
- Project management of new and improved processes.
- Take the lead in PFMEAs.
- Participate in DFMEAs.
- QMS documentation maintenance and improvement.
Benefits:
- We actively encourage an open and collaborative culture across our site through the recognised suggestion scheme and reward and recognition scheme
- 5.5 weeks’ annual leave plus bank holidays
- A generous pension scheme
- Share save scheme
- Holiday buying and selling scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which includes dietary advice, wellbeing initiatives, family matters and counselling support
- We hold annual social events
- Cultural days
- Free on-site parking
- Podiatrist
- Weekly fruit baskets
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