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An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Operations Department for a permanent Process Engineer position, reporting to the Process Engineering Manager. This role also works closely with Production Section Leaders and QA Engineering team.
Responsibilities include:
Health and Safety
Ensure that health, safety and environmental legislative standards are adhered to across all areas of the production environment.
Responsible for ensuring that all safety requirements are clearly stated in the relevant Production SOPs.
Production Process Improvement
Constant review and improvement to ensure effective and efficient process re-engineering, training, piece-part flow etc. Recommend, innovate and implement revised methods and processes to ensure labour costs are in line with the Business objectives.
SOPs
Take ownership and lead for the creation and management of all product and process SOP’s. Ensuring control and adherence within the manufacturing environment (Cross functional sign off). Promote a culture which ensures discipline of standards and expectations are followed and met at all times. Roll out training programmes for all new processes introduced.
Ensure all manufacturing activities to be covered by an SOP and objective assessment located on SharePoint.
CCA Participation
Active role in the completion of CCA’s ensuring the Quality Engineering team are supported to close out complaints in a timely manner.
Ensure continuous improvement in quantity of process related CCAs from the CCA log.
New Product Introduction
Take a lead role to ensure the team actively progress all NPI’s relative to their responsible product areas. Ensure project plan updates are effectively communicated. Preparation of production area(s) to ensure timely/effective product introductions. Validating requirements for jigs and fixtures as required and ensuring a detailed capital expenditure justification is produced.
Ensuring that full buy off has been conducted with documented evidence of this. (FAT / SAT documents)
Ensure that production metrics are recorded and submitted.
NRFT Investigation
Support quality department in the interrogation of NRFT KPI’s and implement actions to remedy for each of the key production areas. Actions should show a clear reduction in the NRFT figure month on month.
Inter-departmental Interface
To provide the primary process interface between allocated manufacturing departments and Technical and Sales.
Ensure all NPI actions are implemented within agreed timeline from NPI meeting / log.
Ensure all PNR and PCD actions are implemented within agreed timeline.
Process change management
Ensure all changes made to process’s are captured via the management of change system.
Full stakeholder sign off and review is used when conducting any process change.
Any other reasonable task the manager may deem as suitable for the role
PERSON SPECIFICATION
The competencies listed are appropriate to the Production / Process Improvement Engineer and are an illustration of the qualities that the Company requires
Professional Requirements
1. Degree Educated in a relevant field or relevant experience with equivalent qualifications (HND / HNC)
2. 3 - 5 years’ experience in an industrial manufacturing role
3. Proven experience of lean manufacturing, continuous improvement and business improvement tools and techniques.
4. Working knowledge of FMEA, 8D, Ishikawa diagrams, 5-why, and SPC. (Yellow / green belt highly desirable)
5. Hands-on Six Sigma experience and qualification is highly desirable.
6. Experience of working to stringent audited ISO quality standards.
7. Experience of transforming manual processes to automated and from batch to single piece flow.
Personal Competencies
8. Ability to work on own initiative with a pro-active strategic approach to challenges
9. Attention to detail
10. Confident commercial awareness and clear business acumen
11. Ability to influence individuals and teams to achieve desired goals and objectives
12. Excellent oral and written communication skills
13. Effective team player
14. Ability to motivate and lead a team to achieve set goals
15. Ability to take a systematic approach to daily operations
16. Highly motivated and able to build close relationships internally and externally to achieve an end goal
17. Customer and market orientated