Continuous Improvement Engineer

Salary: £26,000 – £36,000 per year

Job Overview: Working alongside our client, an established injection moulding manufacturer, we are looking for a Continuous Improvement Engineer to support with the high-volume production of products supplying to the NHS along with a range of other key industrial components.

Role:

* Responsible for leading, supporting and assisting then implementing methods of working to optimise output of existing products in the manufacturing area.

* To improve and standardise the manufacturing processes which will ensure the company works effectively, and to best practice, leading to a world class manufacturing facility

* As a Manufacturing Engineer or Continuous Improvement Engineer you should be able to identify areas of improvement within the business.

* This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic Manufacturing Engineer to join a stable and highly successful company.

* Due to business growth and production demand, new mould machines are due to be installed with new CAPEX arriving in Q2.

* Social distance working conditions are in place throughout the plant

Responsibilities:

* Supporting and leading continuous improvement within the production facility

* Validation of secondary operations, jigs and fixtures by reviewing cycle times against estimates

* Project management of jigs and fixtures for production of customer parts

* Produce process instruction and visual aids develop and produce setting instruction for second operation assembly machines and the mould shop

* Access suitability of production equipment for intended use

* Effective support to development team

Experience:

* Strong Experience within hi-volume manufacturing. Experience of hi-volume plastics or injection moulding manufacturing will be an advantage

* Good time management skills

* Proven experience with driving continuous improvement measures; root cause analysis; production flow and line balancing

* A can-do self-starting attitude

* Engineering qualifications

* Knowledge of LEAN tools

Key Words: “Injection Moulding” “Plastics” “Manufacturing Engineer” “Process Engineer”, “Continuous Improvement Engineer”, “Hi-volume manufacturing”, “Work study”, “Manufacturing Leader”, “Manufacturing Manager”

FOOTER

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