Aerospace Manufacturing Engineer — Lean & NPI

Safran; Tring; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent Pension and bonus scheme

33 Days Holiday (including bank hols)

Dental and BUPA cover

Midday finish on Fridays

Enhanced family friendly policies

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Safran is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to support development, industrialisation and optimisation of manufacturing processes. You will provide day-to-day technical support to Operations, drive improvements, and ensure compliant, cost‑effective production.

Key duties include acting as technical focal point for Operations, creating process docs, driving root-cause analysis with structured methods, and ensuring readiness for new equipment and layouts with APQP adherence.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in manufacturing engineering, ideally in a regulated industry.
• Proficiency in CAD, CAM, and process simulation tools.
• Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Experience with ERP/MRP/MES systems and manufacturing documentation (e.g., BOMs, routers).
• Experience of working within a complex and dynamic component manufacturing engineering environment with NPI and/or continuous improvement experience preferred.
• Proven ability to deploy APQP standards and tools, and manufacturing processes.
• Proven experience in leading technical support team, product investigations and engaging with multi-functional problem-solving workshops.

Responsibilities

• Be the technical focal point (Manufacturing) for Operations, resolving process issues, non‑conformances, and bottlenecks.
• Create and maintain process documentation (work instructions, routings, PFMEAs, control plans, factory layout drawings etc)
• Develop, industrialise, optimise and control manufacturing processes to ensure safe, repeatable, and cost‑effective production
• Drive root‑cause analysis and corrective actions using structured problem‑solving methodologies (8D, 5 Why, Ishikawa)
• Specify rework instructions aligned with technical requirements - Ensure manufacturing readiness for new equipment, tooling, and factory layouts, including capability and validation studies
• Tooling management for production including specifying tools, maintaining assets and registries

Skills

Manufacturing Eng

CAD/CAM

Lean Six Sigma

Problem solving

NPI & CI

ERP/MRP/MES

Tools

BOMs & routers

Process simulation tools

ERP/MRP/MES systems

Job description

Safran is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to support development, industrialisation and optimisation of manufacturing processes. You will provide day-to-day technical support to Operations, drive improvements, and ensure compliant, cost‑effective production.

Key duties include acting as technical focal point for Operations, creating process docs, driving root-cause analysis with structured methods, and ensuring readiness for new equipment and layouts with APQP adherence.