Aerospace Production Engineer (6-Month Contract) - NPI & Lean

Morson Talent; England; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Morson Edge is recruiting a Mechanical Production Engineer for an Aerospace/Defence client on the Wiltshire/Dorset border. This is a contract position for 6 months with potential to go permanent.

The role focuses on providing technical support to manufacturing and assembly operations, improving processes, creating documentation, and working with Design Engineering to resolve manufacturability issues, while driving lean and continuous-improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in a mechanical manufacturing or production engineering environment.
• Good understanding of mechanical manufacturing and assembly processes.
• Experience providing technical support directly to production.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical support to manufacturing and assembly operations.
• Develop and improve manufacturing processes for aerospace mechanical components and assemblies.
• Create and maintain manufacturing instructions, process sheets, routings and bills of materials.
• Support NPI from design through to production.
• Conduct manufacturing feasibility and producibility assessments.
• Investigate production problems using structured root-cause analysis techniques.
• Implement corrective and preventative actions to eliminate recurring manufacturing issues.
• Support non-conformance investigations and disposition activities.
• Work with Design Engineering to resolve drawing, tolerance and manufacturability issues.
• Develop and optimise mechanical assembly processes.
• Implement lean manufacturing and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Ensure production processes comply with company procedures and applicable aerospace standards.
• Maintain accurate engineering and manufacturing documentation.

Skills

Mechanical manufacturing

Production engineering

Technical production support

Job description

Morson Edge is recruiting a Mechanical Production Engineer for an Aerospace/Defence client on the Wiltshire/Dorset border. This is a contract position for 6 months with potential to go permanent.

The role focuses on providing technical support to manufacturing and assembly operations, improving processes, creating documentation, and working with Design Engineering to resolve manufacturability issues, while driving lean and continuous-improvement initiatives.