Production Engineer I — Assembly & Process Improvement

EDGE; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family visas

Annual flight tickets

Medical insurance for you and your deP

Education allowances for your children

Job summary

EDGE is seeking a Production Engineer 1 in Abu Dhabi to support production engineering activities, assembly execution, and shop-floor operations, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant production.

You will provide technical support for production readiness, data-pack reviews, engineering changes, discrepancy resolution, and process improvements working with engineering, quality, planning, stores and maintenance teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering discipline.
• 0-3 years of experience in production, manufacturing, operations, engineering, or technical environments.
• Exposure to ERP systems, SAP/MES, production orders, routing management, quality systems, and continuous improvement methodologies is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support production lines, assembly areas, and projects to ensure execution of approved production plans, orders, work instructions, drawings, specifications, and procedures.
• Maintain regular shop-floor presence to verify workstation readiness, material availability, tooling, fixtures, testers, documentation, and production progress.
• Review engineering and manufacturing documentation to identify discrepancies, execution risks, missing information, and opportunities for improvement.
• Track and coordinate resolution of discrepancies between engineering data, manufacturing data, work instructions, routings, SAP/MES records, and shop-floor execution.
• Conduct DFMA/DFM/DFA reviews to improve manufacturability, assembly efficiency, safety, quality, and production flow.
• Support production readiness activities by ensuring availability of materials, equipment, tools, testers, fixtures, consumables, PPE, and quality requirements.
• Assist with implementation of approved engineering changes and monitor shop-floor impact.
• Investigate production issues, collect field data, verify root causes, document findings, and support corrective actions.
• Collect and analyze production data including output, downtime, defects, rework, test failures, manpower utilization, routing status, and process interruptions.
• Support KPI improvement initiatives related to safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, OEE/OLE, and process stability.
• Develop and recommend practical improvements in processes, material flow, workstation layout, tooling, fixtures, documentation, error-proofing, and 5S practices.
• Support SAP/MES data visibility by reviewing production order status, routing progress, labor bookings, material consumption, WIP, traceability, and closure records.
• Prepare reports, technical summaries, action trackers, discrepancy logs, production-impact assessments, and improvement recommendations.
• Support prototype builds, pilot runs, industrialization activities, production transfers, process-improvement projects, and recovery plans.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards, HSE requirements, ISO standards, company procedures, and audit-readiness requirements.

Skills

SAP/MES

OEE/OLE

ISO standards

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering

Tools

SAP/MES

Job description

EDGE is seeking a Production Engineer 1 in Abu Dhabi to support production engineering activities, assembly execution, and shop-floor operations, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant production.

You will provide technical support for production readiness, data-pack reviews, engineering changes, discrepancy resolution, and process improvements working with engineering, quality, planning, stores and maintenance teams.