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Continuous Improvement Engineer
Onsite in Leamington Spa
This role is suitable for candidates with previous experience as a Manufacturing Engineer with a proven background working in a machine shop with extensive knowledge of tooling, CNC machine tools including multi-tasking, 5 - axis, universal – grinding, gear grinding and shaping.
Key accountabilities:
• Working within the Continuous Improvement team you will ensure that all production orders are ‘machine ready’ to ensure schedule adherence.
• Proactively work alongside Manufacturing, Operations, Quality functions and suppliers to maintain and enhance processes.
• You will actively contribute to annual cost save, emissions reduction and shop floor recovery targets.
Additional/special features of the role:
• Own, complete, report out and handover to operations any CI projects assigned to you.
• Maintain an active shop-floor presence promoting and encouraging lean principles.
• Reporting back and reacting to manufacturing issues from production and ad hoc meetings.
• Work alongside operations and manufacturing to ensure smooth NPI transition to production.
• Working alongside all other functions in DFM and PFMEA for new projects.
• Actively assist all CI team members in closing projects on time.
• Identify potential improvement activities.
• Support Operations with day to day issue resolution.
• Mentor and engage with operators to encourage an improvement culture.
• Maintain a Teamwork approach and actively share knowledge with peers.
• Liaise with Quality Engineers to ensure improvements to our Total Cost of Quality, On Time in Full, delivery and other KPIs.
• Act on key manufacturing performance metrics.
• Knowledge of niche volume manufacturing environment.
• Lean manufacturing skills, 8D, 5 Why and 6 sigma knowledge.
• Data analysis skills would be advantageous.
• Experience of machining a wide range of precision components with complex routings and multiple operations.
Desirable Experience
Experience of working in a precision, small batch, low volume production environment (Automotive / Aerospace / Defence or similar industry).
Gear form manufacturing knowledge/experience.
Heat Treatment knowledge/experience.
CAD/CAM programming experience.
3D modelling experience.
Multi spindle machining experience/knowledge