Principal Industrial Engineer

At Leonardo we have an opportunity for a Principal Industrial Engineer to join our team. Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 7,000 are based in the UK.

The Radar and Advanced Targeting line of business, based in Edinburgh, is uniquely positioned as one of the world’s top manufacturers of radars, lasers and infrared countermeasure systems.

As a Principal Industrial Engineer you will have the opportunity to build cross-functional relationships and be a positive influence within the IPT to support the future of the business and impact the production process.

What we can offer you:
Flexible working: We offer our employees the time and flexibility they need to enjoy a balanced life through flexible hours and part-time options
Flexible benefits: Our company-funded approach to flexible benefits allows employees to make choices appropriate for them. Each employees has access to a wide choice of lifestyle, health and wellbeing options best suited to their individual lifestyle goals
Training: Free access to Coursera which provides more than 4,000 online courses
Continuous learning: You will be supported in your ongoing professional development through training and mentoring
Investors in People: We are proud recipients of the Investors in People Gold Award
Employee Assistance Programme: Providing free and confidential mental health support
Annual leave: We offer 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and 12 flex days

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As a Principal Industrial Engineer you will have the opportunity to pro-actively engage in activities such as:
Own technical aspects of products related to production
Line support
Performance analysis and improvement
Ability to resolve significant % of product issues on shop floor
Responsible for line design / layout, tooling, capacity analysis, modelling/simulation
Responsible for process equipment and establishing and maintaining process capability
Support to MRBs, FRBs, failure investigations
Router adherence and maintenance, planning updates
Plan, organise and communicate the team’s workload (over a short term period) to ensure adherence to internal customer’s time, cost and quality requirements
Participating in continuous improvement activities to develop skills and competencies within Industrial Engineering and wider IPT
Take an active role and/or lead role, in implementing continuous improvement activities/ changes, across area of responsibility, to ensure efficiency can be optimised on the wider Business.
Providing design, and maintenance of processes, to ensure successful delivery / transfer to production.
Promoting a culture of best practice sharing and knowledge exploitation and ensure manufacturing process is best practice
Design manufacturing solutions taking into account all requirements such as product quality, safety, reliability and testability
Undertake IPT project tasks covered by a statement of work, detailing input, processes and output together with cost/timescale constraints to ensure delivery of project objectives