Morson are recruiting on behalf of a defence client based in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria. The business are recruitng for 20 Manufacturing Engineers.

PAY RATES: 47.17 UMBRELLA/ or 35.02 PAYE per hour PLUS 5.09 Per hour Holiday pay 

Duration: 12 months Plus/ Long-term / 37 hours per week 

Site working: Please note this will be a site based role in Barrow in Furness. 3 ON 4 off working shift may be available for some roles with shift uplift applied (TO BE CONFIRMED) 

The purpose of Manufacturing Engineering is to develop, implement and govern capable methods of manufacture, assembly, disassembly and repair (including method of verification) which can meet customer and business requirements for Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring compliance to design intent.
As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer you will have significant involvement in key Manufacturing Engineering projects. You will use your knowledge and experience to guarantee delivery of Manufacturing Engineering outputs into Operations that ensure design intent can be met. The role holder will advise, coach and lead other team members as part of their daily responsibilities.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer Core Duties

• Responsible for converting the Engineering Design intent into Manufacturing Engineering data (sometimes complex) for Manufacturing Operations useResponsible for timely completion of personal and team tasks using appropriate techniques.
• Responsible for managing and developing staff in-line with appropriate performance management techniques and processes.
• Responsible for identifying own development opportunities
• Where appropriate, checks and approves the Teams work ready for release to Manufacturing Operations
• Contribute to the management of the Quality and SHE Systems, for Manufacturing Engineering processes and documentation e.g. calling up safe methods of working.
• Build effective internal and cross functional relationships in order to achieve overall Project requirements.
• Identify the manpower and activities required to meet a set programme of work.
• Assist in the deployment of the training & risk assessments associated with their Manufacturing Engineering sub discipline.
• Support justifications/business cases that seek to improve business performance, and thus provide optimised return on capital investment.
• Assure product and process quality as determined by company processes. Develop and test new systems when the need arises
• Provide decision-making information by calculating production, labour, and material costs reviewing production schedules estimating future requirements
• Agree and prioritise with the customer, emergent work affecting manufacture, fabrication or construction. In doing so, they must be able to manage the allocated projects and sub-projects from conception, through to completion with full stakeholder engagement and agreement.
• Act as a project focal point for discipline specific tasks ensuring best practices are adopted and embedded. This may involve developing processes within their sub-discipline by studying product requirements researching, designing, modifying, and testing development methods and equipment by conferring with field specialists and technologists.
• Lead, develop, and motivate any reporting and assigned staff through good communications, open and honest management techniques, in keeping with the Company values, policies, & procedures.
Safety:

The role holder is responsible for taking reasonable care of their own health and safety ensuring high standards for safety, health and environment (SHE) in our organisation are maintained. This includes co-operating and following all reasonable instruction, information and training reporting work-related hazards or incidents and using all equipment for the purpose intended. More detailed responsibilities are captured within the Company Health & Safety Policy (759/OF/016) and the Company Environmental Policy (759/OF/029).

Senior Manufacturing Engineer  - Experience required 

• Experience in defining and managing Key Performance Indicators
• Experience in performing route cause analysis and reporting on countermeasures
• Previous experience in dealing with performance management and leading a team
• Professional knowledge of relevant Engineering standards (including SHE regulations)
Skills: (Recommended max 5 /statements)
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Creation, receipt, maintenance and disposal of documents and records
• Providing support and guidance on Responsible Document Management
• Reviewing the effectiveness of Responsible Document Management

Should the Manufacturing Engineer position be of interest, please apply.