Manufacturing Engineer (Industrialisation)

Safran; Newport; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Safran in the United Kingdom (Newport) seeks a Manufacturing Engineer for the Industrialisation department to drive new product introductions and ensure on-time delivery, cost control and high quality. You will collaborate with design engineering to ensure manufacturability and support operations and after-market teams with customer requests.

You will participate in design reviews, perform make-vs-buy analysis, balance lines, and prepare PFMEA, control plans and work instructions to enable

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in an aerospace or automotive manufacturing environment.
• Essential knowledge of design for manufacture and assembly principles.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and 3D CAD modelling.
• Ability to interpret 2D drawings and work within regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

• Participate in design reviews throughout each phase of NPI.
• Coordinate design for assembly/manufacture reviews and provide improvements.
• Support operations, sales, R&T and after-market teams to meet requests.
• Lead make vs buy analysis with purchasing and design teams.
• Calculate capacity, tool and space requirements for new processes.
• Lead PFMEA reviews and prepare related documentation.
• Validate product designs against requirements and standards.

Skills

Basic knowledge of design for manufact

Basic knowledge of manufacturing

Interrogation of 3D CAD modelling

Ability to interpret 2D drawings

Education

B.Eng. in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Aerospace Engineering

HND gained through an apprenticeship

Tools

CATIA 3D CAD modelling software

Job description

The Industrialisation department is responsible for the development and introduction of new and updated products into production on time, to cost and to a high quality standard.

As a manufacturing engineer, you will have a good knowledge and understanding of the new product introduction process and be working at an advanced beginner/competent level.

You will be responsible for projects of average complexity and will work closely with other functions of the business especially design engineering to ensure product designs meet manufacturing and assembly requirements.

You will also be required to provide periodic support to operations, sales, R & T and after market teams to deliver customer requests.

But what else? (benefits, specificities, etc.)

Participate in design reviews throughout each phase of the new product introduction process and make improvement suggestions.

Evaluate new product designs using 3D CAD model and mock-ups and log issues. Coordinate design for assembly/manufacture reviews and give feedback with improvement suggestions.

Ensure development mock-ups are built to schedule. Evaluate design, log issues and feedback to design engineers. Make improvement suggestions and validate solutions.

Conduct make vs buy analysis on new product designs and look for optimisation opportunities. Work with the purchasing and design departments to drive required changes.

Calculate production capacity requirements based on customers' demand and identify production tooling and space requirements.

Estimate build times and required number of stations for new production processes. Carry out line balancing of operations.

Produce APQP & PPAP documentation - process flow, PFMEA, control plan, work instructions, MSA & capability studies.

Prepare and lead PFMEA reviews. Use the outcome to drive product and process improvements.

Perform validation and verification of product design to satisfy customers quality and performance expectations as stipulated by systems engineering requirements.

Identify tooling and equipment requirements for new assembly processes and write specification documents that will be used as basis for supplier quotation.

Requirements

• B.Eng. in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Aerospace Engineering OR
• HND gained through an apprenticeship. Essential
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in an aerospace or automotive manufacturing environment. Essential
• Basic knowledge of design for manufacture and assembly principles. Essential
• Basic knowledge of manufacturing processes. Essential
• Interrogation of 3D CAD modelling software. Essential
• Ability to interpret 2D drawings. Essential
• Experience of working within company and regulatory processes, standards and specifications. Desirable
• CATIA 3D CAD modelling software. Desirable
• Understanding of aircraft certification process. Desirable
• Aircraft seat manufacture. Desirable

Safran is an international high-technology group operating in the fields of aerospace (propulsion, equipment and interiors), space and defense. Its mission is to contribute sustainably to a safer world, where air transport becomes ever more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Present on every continent, the Group employs 110,000 people and generated €31.3 billion in revenue in 2025. Safran holds, either independently or through partnerships, leading global or European positions in its markets.

Safran was ranked second in the Aerospace & Defense sector in TIME magazine's "World's Best Companies 2025" ranking.

With more than one million seats installed across the fleets of the world's leading airlines, Safran Seats is one of the global leaders in passenger, crew, aircraft and helicopter seating, delivering innovative, high value-added solutions.