Carbon60 are currently working in partnership with one of the UK's leading aviation MRO providers based on the outskirts of London in the town of Hayes to recruit an experienced Process Engineer with a focus on surface technologies.

This is a permanent role based on site full time and will report directly into the Production Manager.

the purpose of this position is to be responsible for the creation, review and continuous improvement of all plating shop processes and standards including identifying areas for new tooling and troubleshooting production defects to ensure quality standards are adhered to.

Duties:

Developing, configuring and optimizing processes from inception through to start up and steady state monitoring. Assessing data from said processes for best practices and continuous improvement.

· Create and document standards (materials / test methods / equipment etc.)

· Perform and maintain FMEA analysis for all plating shop processes, ensuring that risk mitigation actions are in place and being managed. Create and own technical risk assessment for the Surface Technology department

· Define operational quality metrics for the Operations team, ensuring the ability to capture quality trends and aid root cause analysis Develop supporting engineering documentation for the plating shop (Job Cards for plating shop and plating shop related processes.

· Develop standards for current and future plating activities including but not limited to process improvement, process standardization, line design, and cost reduction.

· Analyse plating solutions, equipment and current practices for applicability to OEM / Approved standards (e.g. Boeing SOPM / CMM / ASTM requirements), monitoring any changes to this OEM / Approved data

· Where required for either New Capability or process improvements, identify and new production tooling requirements.

· Supporting both internal and external resources in production of new tooling to ensure product quality, throughput and consistency. Provide production with required documentation for tool use.

· As required by the changes in the business review new substances for both OEM adherence and REACH / COSHH requirements, aiding the SHE assessment process.

· Technical support of daily operations, developments and laboratory operations.

· Investigate and develop new processes, methods, and layouts to increase equipment flexibility and improve throughput, within the OEM standard constraints, supported by the Continuous Improvement team.

· Investigate non-conformities and within a matrix environment to amend processes or tooling until deficiency or unsatisfactory condition is corrected.

· Perform economic analysis of alternative chemistries and process operations, including alignment to processes within the wider Product division.

· Where applicable work with the OEM for concessions / approvals for improvements to plating shop processes to optimise the production system.

· Where applicable, working with the wider engineer team, develop 21J / CRAS approvals for processes and procedural improvements over the OEM published data.

Experience Required:

Highly Innovative, analytical, decisive, multi-tasked, and goal oriented individual is required with the ability to manage time and resources.

· Ideally 3-5 years of electro-plating or plating experience in a R & D or process related position. Experience in a multi-faceted metal finishing operation that produces finished parts, ideally for Aerospace components.

· Training in Lean manufacturing, Continuous improvement, and Statistical Process Control.

· Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distil technical information for both a technical and non-technical audience.

· An approachable team player, who proven to work in a matrix environment.

· Excellent IT and numeracy skills, ideally with knowledge of MRP & ERP / MS Office systems.

· Experience of working within an Aerospace environment to EASA 145 standard or equivalent manufacturing/maintenance industry.

· Understanding of REACH and COSHH requirements at a working level.

Interviews for this role will be held shortly, for more information on this role please contact the Carbon60 engineering team on (phone number removed).

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy