Continuous Improvement Engineer
Onsite in Leamington Spa

This role is suitable for candidates with previous experience as a Manufacturing Engineer with a proven background working in a machine shop with extensive knowledge of tooling, CNC machine tools including multi-tasking, 5 – axis, universal – grinding, gear grinding and shaping.

Key accountabilities:

• • Working within the Continuous Improvement team you will ensure that all production orders are ‘machine ready’ to ensure schedule adherence.

• • Proactively work alongside Manufacturing, Operations, Quality functions and suppliers to maintain and enhance processes.

• • You will actively contribute to annual cost save, emissions reduction and shop floor recovery targets.

  Additional/special features of the role:

• • Own, complete, report out and handover to operations any CI projects assigned to you.

• • Maintain an active shop-floor presence promoting and encouraging lean principles.

• • Reporting back and reacting to manufacturing issues from production and ad hoc meetings.

• • Work alongside operations and manufacturing to ensure smooth NPI transition to production.

• • Working alongside all other functions in DFM and PFMEA for new projects.

• • Actively assist all CI team members in closing projects on time.

• • Identify potential improvement activities.

• • Support Operations with day to day issue resolution.

• • Mentor and engage with operators to encourage an improvement culture.

• • Maintain a Teamwork approach and actively share knowledge with peers.

• • Liaise with Quality Engineers to ensure improvements to our Total Cost of Quality, On Time in Full, delivery and other KPIs.

• • Act on key manufacturing performance metrics.

• • Knowledge of niche volume manufacturing environment.

• • Lean manufacturing skills, 8D, 5 Why and 6 sigma knowledge.

• • Data analysis skills would be advantageous.

• • Experience of machining a wide range of precision components with complex routings and multiple operations.

  Desirable Experience
  
• Experience of working in a precision, small batch, low volume production environment (Automotive / Aerospace / Defence or similar industry).
• Gear form manufacturing knowledge/experience.
• Heat Treatment knowledge/experience.
• CAD/CAM programming experience.
• 3D modelling experience.
• Multi spindle machining experience/knowledge.