CNC Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer Precision Are you a Production or Manufacturing Engineer with a hands on CNC background from a Precision Manufacturing background looking for an exciting opportunity ? Then get in touch! Kingston Barnes has an exciting opportunity for a Manufacturing Engineer for one of our clients in North Somerset.

The Role

• Day-to-day production support across a variety of manufacturing processes, including turning, milling and grinding
• Actively contribute to the channel cross functional team solving daily issues
• Data driven process capability and process improvement activities
• Customer interface for engineering changes
• Technical interface with suppliers
• New product introduction activities, including manufacturing process and layout creation, prototyping and serial production support
• Lead costing and quoting exercises
• Defining manufacturing instructions, CNC machine program creation (CAM) and creating technical documents
• Support implementation of new CNC equipment
• Support reduction of scrap, loss and rework through process control and improvement
• Liaise with Design Office, Supply Chain, Planning, Customer Service, EHS and Quality Assurance functions Qualifications and Experience Essential
• 5+ years experience in a manufacturing environment
• HNC/Degree in a technical discipline
• Problem solving experience (5Why, A3, 8D)
• Process knowledge of either turning, milling and/or grinding
• New Product Introduction experience

Desirable

• Experience of NC programming for single and multi-functional equipment, CAM experience beneficial
• Experience with SAP or similar ERP systems
• Experience in an aerospace manufacturing environment
• Appreciation of aerospace bearing products and their applications
• Knowledge of lean or 6sigma tools
• IT literate, interest in IoT and digitalisation
• IEng/CEng accreditation or similar, or a desire to work towards
• Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK to apply for this position