Industrial Engineer

Genuit Group; Loughborough; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Genuit Group is seeking an experienced process engineer to analyse production, optimise layouts, and lead continuous improvement projects across a plastics manufacturing site in the UK. You will drive efficiency, validate changes with production, and coach teams in Lean methodologies.

The role focuses on data-driven decision making, cost reduction, and robust implementation of improvements, with a strong emphasis on safety, regulatory compliance, and sustainable manufacturing practices.

Responsibilities

• Analyse production processes to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for automation or redesign.
• Conduct time studies, line balancing, and capacity modelling to support operational planning.
• Optimise material flow, layout, and workstation design to improve ergonomics and throughput.
• Partner with Production to validate process changes and ensure robust implementation.
• Lead CI and engineering projects from concept through to implementation, ensuring timelines, budgets, and deliverables are met.
• Collect and interpret production data to identify trends, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Champion GBS and Lean tools (5S, SMED, visual management, standard work) to deliver improvements.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and reporting tools to support decision making and performance tracking.
• Support cost reduction initiatives through scrap reduction, cycle time optimisation, and improved asset utilisation.
• Collaborate with Quality to improve process capability, reduce defects, and strengthen control plans.
• Ensure all improvements align with regulatory, safety, and environmental requirements relevant to plastics manufacturing.
• Lead a small engineering team, set priorities, allocate resources, and ensure timely delivery of CI projects.
• Coach engineers, supervisors, and operators in CI methods to strengthen problem solving skills and embed a culture of continuous improvement throughout the site.
• Prepare business cases, ROI calculations, and project documentation.

Job description

Closing Date for Application: Thursday 27/08/2026

• Analyse production processes to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for automation or redesign.
• Conduct time studies, line balancing, and capacity modelling to support operational planning.
• Optimise material flow, layout, and workstation design to improve ergonomics and throughput.
• Partner with Production to validate process changes and ensure robust implementation.
• Lead CI and engineering projects from concept through to implementation, ensuring timelines, budgets, and deliverables are met.
• Collect and interpret production data to identify trends, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Champion GBS and the use of Lean tools (5S, SMED, visual management, standard work) to deliver sustainable improvements across the site
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and reporting tools to support decision making and performance tracking.
• Support cost reduction initiatives through scrap reduction, cycle time optimisation, and improved asset utilisation.
• Collaborate with Quality to improve process capability, reduce defects, and strengthen control plans.
• Ensure all improvements align with regulatory, safety, and environmental requirements relevant to plastics manufacturing.
• Lead a small engineering team, provide day to day leadership, setting priorities, allocating resources, and ensuring timely delivery of engineering and CI projects.
• Coach engineers, supervisors, and operators in CI methods to strengthen problem solving skills and embed a culture of continuous improvement throughout the site.
• Prepare business cases, ROI calculations, and project documentation.

Here at the Genuit Group we recognise and develop the contribution our people make to the Group's success and are committed to attracting talent from the widest pool.

We have a role to play in making the built environment more sustainable, building a low carbon business ourselves as well as delivering sustainable solutions at scale.

Here at Genuit we recognise and develop the contribution our people make to the Group's success and are committed to attracting talent from the widest pool.

Our people are central to us which is why we’re passionate about building a culture of trust and innovation. We operate a decentralised business model where each Genuit Business attracts, nurtures, and retains local talent, becoming experts in their field. It is our people who will ensure that our success is sustainable, supporting each other and being flexible and responsive to the demands of our customers and the marketplace.