Joining / Manufacturing Engineer

Futura Design; West Midlands Combined Authority; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company located in the UK is seeking a Joining / Manufacturing Engineer to enhance and optimize their manufacturing processes. This role involves collaboration, project coordination, and the use of digital tools to drive efficiencies. The ideal candidate will have a degree in engineering, strong problem-solving skills, and experience in joining technologies. This is a contract position offering £32.61 per hour.

Qualifications

• Technical curiosity and strong interpersonal skills.
• Experience in joining technologies such as GTAW, laser welding, and RSW.
• Digitally savvy, proficient in applications and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Contribute insights and feedback to shape manufacturable joining methods.
• Review feasibility trial results and drive optimal solutions.
• Manage vendor engineers to meet project responsibilities.
• Coordinate projects to ensure high-quality delivery.

Skills

Team collaboration

Problem-solving

Data analysis

Effective communication

Technical curiosity

Education

Degree in engineering or equivalent

Tools

PowerApps

Digital tools for automation and analysis

Job description

Our OEM Client based in Solihull is searching for a Joining / Manufacturing Engineer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position until 17th July 2026.

Umbrella Pay Rate: GBP32.61 per hour.

As a Joining / Manufacturing Engineer, you will be at the heart of our manufacturing process, ensuring our joining methods are robust and efficient.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate and influence: Actively contribute insights and provide vital feedback to lead Joining Engineer, BIW Process Engineering, and Product Development teams to shape manufacturable joining methods.
• Analyse and optimise: Review feasibility trial results, ensure data validity, identify improvements, and drive optimal solutions.
• Foster vendor relationships: Manage vendor engineers, ensure responsibilities, reviews, and timings are met, and raise deviations promptly.
• Ensure project consistency: Coordinate projects, maintain alignment with best practices and methodologies for high-quality delivery.
• Drive digital transformation: Use data and digital tools like PowerApps, macros, and AI to automate, monitor, and analyze processes for improved decision-making.
• Coordinate manufacturing excellence: Work with project teams and vendors to ensure adherence to joining technologies and standards for seamless production.
• Understand the big picture: Develop understanding of interface interactions in joining technologies like adhesives, FDS, RSW, etc., ensuring parameters are aligned.

Essential Personal Specification, Experience, and Education:

We're seeking someone with technical curiosity and strong interpersonal skills, likely:

• A collaborative team player, thriving in team settings, with enthusiasm and passion.
• Initiative-taker and problem solver, driven to complete tasks and meet commitments.
• Digitally savvy, proficient in applications, dashboards, data analysis, and exploring AI potential.
• Effective communicator, able to convey technical info clearly at all levels.
• Technically curious, ideally with a degree or equivalent in engineering, with knowledge or interest in joining technologies such as GTAW, laser welding, SPR, RSW, adhesives, FDS, and knowledge transfer skills.