Rewards and Benefits on Offer:
* Competitive salary
* Death in service benefit with 1 x annual salary to dependants
* 33 days hols including BH
* Free parking
* Immediate start.
Working Hours:
* 7.15am to 4pm Mon to Thurs,
* Friday 7.30am to 12pm
* Hoping to move toward 4-day week in 2026.
MTrec’s New Opportunity:
MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious engineering client, based in Sunderland with their plans for growth and expansion, by recruiting a permanent Manufacturing Engineer to join their team. You will be joining a fast-paced, dynamic company, with an excellent team-based culture and huge opportunities to progress your career. You will be joining a very secure and expanding business, where you will enjoy a varied working environment and great team culture.
If you have experience as a Manufacturing Engineer or similar, please apply now for an immediate response.
The Job You’ll Do:
* Evaluate current production activities and make recommendations for improvements. This may involve conducting time and motion studies on new and existing processes.
* Evaluate manufacturing processes by designing and conducting research programs; applying knowledge of product design, fabrication, assembly, tooling, and materials; conferring with equipment vendors; soliciting observations from operators.
* Seek quotes for prices of component parts, services or machines which achieve the objectives listed above.
* Improve manufacturing efficiency by analysing and planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout.
* Responsible for producing factory lay-out and floorplan reflecting the desired process flow paths, using AutoCAD or similar.
* Responsible for maintaining work centres, cost centres and machine capacity available times on ERP.
* Analyse factory output and operator efficiencies to improve output.
* Maintain company standard times for future costing and current efficiency output.
* Identify factory bottlenecks to increase throughput.
* Analyse idle times and advise on improvements [Line balancing].
* Where appropriate, provide training and guidance to team members to accomplish production goals.
* With the Production Management Team, develop best practices to improve production capacity, quality and reliability.
* Trouble shoot production concerns and facilitate cross functional teams to lead and implement improvements required by determining root cause, developing solutions and finally leading implementation.
* Prepare product and process reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing information and trends.
About You:
* Minimum of 3 years working in a manufacturing/production/industrial engineering role.
* CAD and experience of Standardised Working is essential.
* Understanding of Lean Manufacturing principles (desirable).
* Commercial awareness.
* The ability to work well under pressure within an agreed timeline.
* Problem-solving skills & IT skills.
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