Manufacturing Engineer – Composites & Defence, Onsite Coventry

Meritus Talent; West Midlands; Presencial; GBP 38.000 - 45.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

25 days annual leave

8 bank holidays

Pension scheme

Life cover

Cash Healthcare Plan

Career development

Reservist leave

Cadet leave

Descripción de la vacante

MERITUS are recruiting a Manufacturing Engineer to join our defence manufacturing client on a permanent basis from their Coventry site. This is an onsite role, supporting the manufacture and introduction of specialist composite armour and defence protection products.

As a Manufacturing Engineer, you'll help take products and processes from engineering into repeatable manufacture. You'll support manufacturing readiness, develop and improve processes, create manufacturing instructions and PFMEAs,

Formación

• Experience in manufacturing engineering in a production environment.
• Composites experience required.
• Experience supporting multiple processes.
• Hands-on press moulding and CNC machining experience.
• Experience with NPI, readiness or DFM.
• Strong Lean manufacturing knowledge.
• Structured problem solving: 5 Whys, Ishikawa, 8D.
• Ability to review CAD models and support prototyping.
• Collaborative across Engineering, Operations, Quality and Programme.
• Engineering degree or HNC advantageous.

Responsabilidades

• Deliver manufacturing readiness and improve processes.
• Create manufacturing instructions and PFMEAs.
• Apply DFM to simplify manufacturing.
• Lead continuous improvement across established processes.
• Utilise Lean techniques: 5S, line balancing, flow, standard operations.

Conocimientos

Manufacturing engineering

Composites

Multi-process support

Press moulding

CNC machining

NPI readiness

DFM principles

Lean manufacturing

Root cause 5Whys

Ishikawa / 8D

CAD review

Prototyping support

Cross-functional teamwork

Educación

Engineering degree

HNC in engineering

Herramientas

CAD software

Descripción del empleo

MERITUS are recruiting a Manufacturing Engineer to join our defence manufacturing client on a permanent basis from their Coventry site. This is an onsite role, supporting the manufacture and introduction of specialist composite armour and defence protection products.

As a Manufacturing Engineer, you'll help take products and processes from engineering into repeatable manufacture. You'll support manufacturing readiness, develop and improve processes, create manufacturing instructions and PFMEAs,