Industrial Engineer: Process Excellence & NPI Launch

Staffline; Buckingham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffline is seeking an Industrial Engineer to join the Buckingham manufacturing team. The role focuses on delivering and improving manufacturing products and processes, ensuring quality, efficiency, and performance across the series manufacturing line.

The successful candidate will work hands-on with manufacturing, quality, and engineering teams to drive operational excellence, support capacity planning, NPI activities to SOP, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Hands-on engineering approach with strong shopfloor collaboration.
• Experience in process improvement and capacity planning is beneficial.
• Ability to support NPI activities through to SOP.

Responsibilities

• Conduct time studies and motion analysis to establish standard times.
• Analyse processes to improve efficiency, productivity, quality and cost.
• Lead continuous improvement across manufacturing operations.
• Support ergonomics reviews and workstation improvements.
• Drive initiatives for Right First Time and manufacturing excellence.
• Design and optimise factory layouts to improve workflow and reduce bottlenecks.
• Analyse production capacity to forecast future requirements.
• Develop solutions to address capacity constraints via efficiency or investment.
• Coordinate capital equipment justification and implementation projects.
• Manage engineering changes within production processes.
• Develop, maintain and improve standard work documentation and cycle time standards.
• Support process documentation updates following product changes.
• Ensure documentation reflects current production methods and best practices.
• Support process audits and continuous improvement reviews.
• Assist NPI build phases through SOP and coordinate phase builds and testing.
• Participate in hands-on product builds and provide feedback to improve manufacturing readiness.
• Develop manufacturing processes for new products and ensure materials availability for phase builds.
• Support Quality Engineering with defect investigations and root cause analysis.

Job description

Staffline is seeking an Industrial Engineer to join the Buckingham manufacturing team. The role focuses on delivering and improving manufacturing products and processes, ensuring quality, efficiency, and performance across the series manufacturing line.

The successful candidate will work hands-on with manufacturing, quality, and engineering teams to drive operational excellence, support capacity planning, NPI activities to SOP, and continuous improvement initiatives.