Aerospace Manufacturing Engineer – APQP/PPAP & Lean Expert

Safran Engineering Services; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early finish on a Friday

5 weeks holiday per year

Employer pension scheme (5% employee,

Death in service life insurance

PEGI Share Scheme

Career development within Safran Group

Training & development focus

Job summary

SAFRAN Engineering Services in Wolverhampton is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to drive industrialisation and improve production across multiple projects. You will lead process design, PFMEA, APQP/PPAP activities and collaborate with engineering, manufacturing and quality assurance teams.

Based in the UK, you will optimize manufacturing performance, cut costs, and ensure safety and regulatory compliance while supporting cross-functional teams through NPI milestones and BOM accuracy checks.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in an aerospace or automotive manufacturing environment.
• Experience with company and regulatory processes, standards and specifications.
• Good knowledge of design for manufacture and assembly principles.
• Good knowledge of manufacturing processes.
• APQP & PPAP familiarity.
• PFMEA familiarity.
• Familiarity with industry standards and tools (SPC, R&R, MSA).
• Ability to interpret 2D drawings / 3D CAD modelling.

Responsibilities

• Analyse current manufacturing processes to identify areas for improvement.
• Develop and implement process improvements, possibly designing and installing new equipment.
• Participate in design reviews and work with design engineers to implement solutions.
• Ensure products can be manufactured reliably and perform consistently in specified environments.
• Evaluate processes using product design, fabrication, assembly, tooling and materials knowledge.
• Maintain manufacturing process documentation and specifications.
• Ensure safety policies and procedures are followed.
• Conduct make vs buy analyses and drive changes with purchasing and design.
• Estimate build times and line balance; apply lean principles to eliminate waste.
• Produce APQP & PPAP documentation (PFMEA, control plan, work instructions, MSA & capability studies).
• Lead PFMEA reviews to drive product and process improvements.
• Identify tooling/equipment needs and write supplier-quoting specs.
• Support programme milestones (PDR, CDR, Test builds, PTR, PPAP).
• Check BOM accuracy and relay discrepancies to design; create production BOM.
• Participate in root-cause analysis and update industrialisation timing plans.
• Highlight opportunities for continuous improvement and implement them.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety policy.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Data analysis

Team player

Communication

Tools

APQP

PPAP

PFMEA

MSA

SPC

R&R

Job description

SAFRAN Engineering Services in Wolverhampton is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to drive industrialisation and improve production across multiple projects. You will lead process design, PFMEA, APQP/PPAP activities and collaborate with engineering, manufacturing and quality assurance teams.

Based in the UK, you will optimize manufacturing performance, cut costs, and ensure safety and regulatory compliance while supporting cross-functional teams through NPI milestones and BOM accuracy checks.