Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Senior Production Engineer. 

For nearly 100years our client has been designing and manufacturing world class industrial mixers for mixing doughs, powders, creams, batters, pastes, sludges, slurries and granules for all industries and have been supplying them to locations all over the world. Due to expansion we are now looking to recruit a senior Production Engineer. 

This role reports to the Head of Operations, heading up a small team with responsibility for production control, purchasing and inventory management. Having the prime objective of managing and coordinating the interface between engineering and manufacturing in a make-to-order capital equipment arena. While working within the current confines of our manufacturing capability, bring about improvements in systems, processes, and procedures to improve efficiency, increase throughput and profitability, resulting in improved on-time delivery performance through effective planning and supply chain management.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for production planning and modelling of prospective orders, along with scheduling to optimise workflow, to ensure good utilisation of machinery and resources to bring about improvements in productivity and on time delivery.

• Lead and participate in the day-to-day generation of technical engineering instructions for a multi-disciplinary production facility (fabrication & weld, machine shop and fitting).

• Lead and participate in the creation and maintenance of production BoM’s, routings, and manufacturing orders for existing and new products.

• Based upon the planning and modelling, advise when the need for sub-contract support is envisaged. Our dependency upon sub-contract support is to be minimised in favour of developing our in-house capability.

• Lead in the creation and development of routings to optimise manufacturing approaches.

• Provide costings in support of prospective sales based on historical data or first principals.

• Identify and implement improvements to manufacturing, and work scheduling to optimise efficiency and increase productivity.

• Responsible for purchasing, and to assist in the creation and issuing purchase orders for raw materials, components, and sub-contract manufacture or service provisions as and when required.

• Through your team maintain oversight and provide regular updates on procurement status and where necessary expedite material shortages with manufacturing and suppliers to ensure timely deliveries to contribute to improvements in on time delivery.

• Responsible for stores, and management of inventory, and the annual stock take.

• As part of a drive for continual improvement, identify and recommend opportunities for improvement based in LEAN principals and continuous improvement.

Skills & Experience

• Experienced in production engineering, planning, and buying, ideally from a capital equipment make to order background.

• Experienced and comfortable managing people to create a high-performing team.

• Be self-starting/motivated and possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Have a proven ability to identify and implement improvements.

• Adept at managing situations to achieve cost, time, and quality targets.

• Must be computer literate, familiar and competent in Excel and Word.

• Experience working in an ERP/MRP environment is essential.

• Experience in ERP/MRP implementation is highly desirable.

Educational Qualifications:

Minimum academic level required:

• NVQ/SVQ Level 4 / HNC in Mechanical / Production Engineering

Ideal academic level preferred:

• NVQ/SVQ Level 5 / HND / Degree in Mechanical / Production Engineering

Professional Qualifications:

• CMS/DMS or other management qualification is desirable

Mobility Requirements: (requirement for national/international travel, overseas assignments)

The role will be based on site at our Basingstoke premises. Occasional travel may be required within the UK in support of supplier and business development.

Additional Specifications / Comments:

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties to be performed by the employee. This job description may be altered to reflect the business needs of the company.

For more information on the role and the company, please send your CV via the CV library link and we will contact you as soon as possible, the advertised salary on this role is just a guide, our client is totally flexible and understands that he will need to pay the right salary to secure the ideal candidate for the role. Please send your CV if you are interestred in the role and we will advise on salary.