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Manufacturing Engineer

Company : Safran Electrical & Power

Job field : Industrial Engineering

Location : Pitstone, Buckinghamshire , England , United Kingdom

Contract type : Permanent

Contract duration : Full-time

Professional status : Professional, Engineer & Manager

# 2023-132213

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Job Description

Manufacturing Engineer

Pitstone, Tring, Hertfordshire

£ Competitive

Benefits: 8% Bonus, Excellent Pension, 33 Days Holiday, Dental, BUPA, Workplace nursery scheme, Midday finish on Fridays, Enhanced family friendly policies, Wellbeing programme, Employee assistance programme including health and finance, Onsite subsidised canteen

Skills: REACH, DSEAR, DFM, Mechanical, Analytical, Problem solving, Root cause analysis, SPC analysis, Effective communicator, Process improvement, Lean manufacturing

At Safran Electrical & Power, we recognise that aviation needs to innovate and change in order to protect our environment. We believe that future aircraft power systems will be hybrid-electric or full-electric, which is why we are working to develop and deliver advanced electrical solutions to help decarbonise flight.

The UK Safran Electrical & Power team has expertise in designing and developing electrical systems comprising generators, power conversion, distribution and control, with developing expertise in electric motors for aircraft propulsion.

If you want to help deliver this future, we are looking for enthusiastic and creative people to join our team.

As a Manufacturing Engineer at Safran Electrical & Power you will act as the focal point for technical support initiatives and quality control analysis, focusing on sustaining and improving operations of both current and future operational requirements. You will utilise your expertise to lead technical investigations, ensuring and implementing robust root cause analysis results, creating ideas for effective and corrective actions. You will have control to develop and execute process improvements between the operations and engineering teams, resolving issues and implementing effective solutions.

The Role

• Act as the focal point for operations managers and engineers when interfacing with company technical experts, effectively building and developing strong relationships with the programs, quality, and supply chain teams.

• Lead technical investigations, ensuring and implementing robust root cause analysis results, creating ideas for effective and corrective actions.

• Recognise and solve manufacturing issues by proactively communicating with both operations and engineering teams, improving processes to limit issues and errors.

• Update Bill of Materials for existing products, driven from engineering changes.

• Support internal and outsourced operations, sharing and developing best practice across both the Pitstone site and at a divisional level when required.

• Assist and influence the construction of module-based strategic road maps, justifying capital investment for machines, tooling, plant equipment and more.

• Champion effective industrialisation of products, tools, machinery and process.

• Create, validate and maintain production layouts, standard operations and other configuration documents.

Complementary Description

Get involved:

We also have a number of groups and forums onsite that you can get involved with, including Women at Safran, STEM ambassadors, Employee Forum, charity partnerships and wellbeing programme.

Our Wellbeing Programme in Pitstone aims to place employee wellbeing at the heart of our business, and we integrate it with all that we do. The programme is made up of four wellbeing committees; Healthy Minds, Physical, Social & Financial. Our enhanced family friendly policies re-enforce our commitment to providing a workplace that is both diverse and inclusive.

Job Requirements

We are looking for candidates with a range of skills and experience, but we're also keen to help people grow and develop in this role. If you have some or all of the following, we'd love to hear from you:

• Relevant degree or experience in mechanical, electronics or production engineering

• Ability to lead technical investigations, proactively engaging with multiple departments

• Experience working within a dynamic manufacturing engineering team

• Ability to communicate confidently at all levels

• Problem solving techniques and an analytical approach

• Working knowledge of legislative requirements including REACH and DSEAR is desirable

• Understanding of Statistical Process Control, lean manufacturing and Design for Manufacture (DFM)

• Evidence of written English at interview stage.

Specificity of the job

Travel as required.

Locate your future workplace

Westfield RoadLU7 9RH

Pitstone, Buckinghamshire

England United Kingdom

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Safran is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.