Production Engineer

Reference Number: JO-2312-527200
Production Engineer
Rate: £32,000 – 35,000
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Brighton

Calling all Technicians with Electro-Mechanical Assembly experience who would like to progress into a Production Engineer, this could be the role for you.

The Production Engineer will be responsible for the following

• Technical oversight in the build of cameras and systems
• Building of cameras and initial functional testing. This includes devising practical solutions to problems arising during construction and feeding back the design modifications to R&D.
• Diagnosing, fault finding and repairing customer returns.
• Machining one-off or short-run metal components.
• Drawing component details for manufacture and producing images for camera calibration and correction

• The Production Engineer contributes to the overall achievement of production output, whilst also focussing on high yield and quality KPI targets.
• The standard working hours are typically office type hours from Monday to Friday

Operational Duties

• Production of optical and x-ray cameras on work benches, in laminar flow cabinets and cleanroom.
• Production of x-ray and similar cabinets and systems involving mechanical and electrical assembly of sub-assembly and component parts
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical and electrical schematics.
• Machine shop skills.
• Soldering skills
• Fault-finding from circuit diagrams using functional understanding of electronics and physics
• Knowledge of adhesives including UV curing and vacuum epoxy.
• Application of scintillator material to fibre-optics.
• Bonding fibre-optic tapers to CCD and CMOS sensors.
• Knowledge of vacuum system construction techniques and materials.
• Use of image capture software applications and installation of firmware

Production Support and Quality Control

• Monitor & review production processes.

• Ensure procedures and processes are complete and accurate.

• Ensure equipment, jigs and fixtures are fully functional and suitable for the production processes.

• Assist with training of new production staff.

• Take appropriate and effective action to address and resolve any problems or delays in production.

• Participate in new equipment evaluation

• Participate in the transfer of R&D products into production products

• Identify and implement corrective and improvement actions

• Maintain a clean, well-organised working area

Health & Safety

• Promote & maintain awareness and compliance of H&S in accordance with best practice and legal requirement.

Ad hoc

• The role may include other reasonable duties/tasks from time to time.

In this role you will also work with other areas of the business which will include..

• Liaising with the Supply chain and Operations managers on day-to-day tasks, issues and priorities
• Working alongside colleagues to optimise production workflow and support one another
• Interacting with Design, Software and Test engineers when problems occur to problem solve issues