Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering Lead (Hands-on)

The Collective Network Limited; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

The Collective Network Limited seeks a Lead Manufacturing Engineer - Aerospace at the Gloucester plant. You will lead the manufacturing engineering and tooling teams while continuing to perform hands-on technical work.

You’ll drive APQP, PFMEA and readiness checks, write methods, routings and process documentation, support bids and tooling concepts, and lead root-cause problem solving as the business scales internationally.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in manufacturing engineering in production or NPI.
• 3+ years leading a technical team.
• Practical composites knowledge and an understanding of AS9100.
• CAD skills, ideally SolidWorks.
• Metallic machining and tooling experience is a real plus on top of the composites knowledge, as are AFP and Six Sigma.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and plan the workload of the ME and Tooling teams
• Own the plant's manufacturing engineering plan, balancing Operations' priorities with Engineering's standards
• Take new products from design into production through APQP, PFMEA and readiness checks
• Write the methods, routings and process documentation that build parts
• Support bids and tooling concepts
• Drive root cause problem solving when things go wrong

Skills

Manufacturing engineering

Team leadership

AS9100 knowledge

Composites knowledge

Process improvement

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

The Collective Network Limited seeks a Lead Manufacturing Engineer - Aerospace at the Gloucester plant. You will lead the manufacturing engineering and tooling teams while continuing to perform hands-on technical work.

You’ll drive APQP, PFMEA and readiness checks, write methods, routings and process documentation, support bids and tooling concepts, and lead root-cause problem solving as the business scales internationally.