Lead Manufacturing Engineer - Aerospace
Up to £75,000
Gloucester
Want to lead a team without becoming a spreadsheet-and-meetings manager? This one keeps your hands on the work.
Our client is a fast-growing advanced composites manufacturer supplying aerospace, automotive, defence and space. They need a Manufacturing Engineering Lead to run the manufacturing engineering and tooling teams at their Gloucester plant, while still delivering technical work yourself.
You'll:
Lead, develop and plan the workload of the ME and Tooling teams
Own the plant's manufacturing engineering plan, balancing Operations' priorities with Engineering's standards
Take new products from design into production through APQP, PFMEA and readiness checks
Write the methods, routings and process documentation that build parts
Support bids and tooling concepts
Drive root cause problem solving when things go wrong
You'll need:
5+ years in manufacturing engineering in production or NPI
3+ years leading a technical team
Practical composites knowledge and an understanding of AS9100
CAD skills, ideally SolidWorks
Metallic machining and tooling experience is a real plus on top of the composites knoweldge, as are AFP and Six Sigma.
You'll help set how manufacturing engineering works as the business scales internationally.
Interested? Click apply and our Senior Consultant Jack will be in touch
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