Lean Manufacturing Engineer — Early Fridays, Impact

Yolk Recruitment Ltd; Blaenavon; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Early finish on Friday's

Life assurance

Job summary

Yolk Recruitment is supporting a well-established manufacturing business in Blaenavon, Wales, for a Manufacturing Engineer to drive process improvement, reduce waste and boost production performance. You will own continuous improvement projects, apply lean techniques and optimise processes within a precision engineering environment.

You will work with Production, Operations and Quality teams to enhance capability and efficiency, contribute to NPI, perform root-cause analysis and deliver

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Manufacturing Engineering role within a production environment.
• Track record of delivering process improvements and cost savings.
• Practical experience with lean manufacturing tools and CI methodologies.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Good communication across engineering, production and quality teams.
• Strong organisational skills managing multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, develop and optimise manufacturing processes to boost productivity.
• Identify opportunities to reduce waste and costs.
• Apply lean tools to improve efficiency and best practice.
• Lead and coordinate process improvement projects with milestones.
• Support new product introduction and initial production batches.
• Investigate process, product and equipment issues and implement corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain manufacturing documentation (SOPs, control plans, PFMEAs).
• Collaborate with Operations and Quality to improve process control.
• Support capital investment projects and equipment selection.
• Establish equipment specs and acceptance criteria.
• Provide regular updates on progress and improvements.

Skills

Manufacturing engineering

Process improvement

Lean manufacturing

Analytical skills

Communication

Project management

Job description

Yolk Recruitment is supporting a well-established manufacturing business in Blaenavon, Wales, for a Manufacturing Engineer to drive process improvement, reduce waste and boost production performance. You will own continuous improvement projects, apply lean techniques and optimise processes within a precision engineering environment.

You will work with Production, Operations and Quality teams to enhance capability and efficiency, contribute to NPI, perform root-cause analysis and deliver