Manufacturing Engineer: NPI & Continuous Improvement

Theo James Recruitment Ltd; Bishop Auckland; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Flexible Start & Finish Times

Company Pension

Flexible Working Hours

Supportive Engineering Team

Job summary

The Manufacturing Engineer role in County Durham offers autonomy to influence production from concept to manufacture. You will lead NPI, review drawings, and drive process improvements across manufacturing routes, tooling, and fixtures with a collaborative engineering team.

Ideal candidates bring prior manufacturing engineering or design experience, strong fabrication knowledge, CAD skills, and a proactive, hands-on problem-solving approach in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Previous Manufacturing Engineer, Project Engineer or Design Engineer experience.
• Strong sheet metal and fabrication knowledge.
• Experience within welding or fabricated products.
• Exposure to APQP, PPAP and PFMEA.
• Experience introducing new products into manufacture.
• CAD experience (Inventor or similar preferred).
• Strong communication and customer-facing skills.
• Excellent problem-solving ability.
• A practical, hands-on engineering mindset.

Responsibilities

• Managing New Product Introduction (NPI).
• Reviewing customer drawings and manufacturing requirements.
• Improving manufacturing processes and efficiencies.
• Reviewing manufacturing route cards.
• Supporting tooling, jigs and fixture requirements.
• Supporting APQP, PPAP and PFMEA activities.
• Solving production and manufacturing issues.
• Working closely with production, customers and suppliers.
• Driving continuous improvement projects.

Skills

Manufacturing engineering experience

Sheet metal fabrication

Welding/fabricated products

APQP PPAP PFMEA

New product introduction (NPI)

CAD (Inventor)

Communication skills

Problem solving

Hands-on engineering mindset

Tools

Inventor

Job description

The Manufacturing Engineer role in County Durham offers autonomy to influence production from concept to manufacture. You will lead NPI, review drawings, and drive process improvements across manufacturing routes, tooling, and fixtures with a collaborative engineering team.

Ideal candidates bring prior manufacturing engineering or design experience, strong fabrication knowledge, CAD skills, and a proactive, hands-on problem-solving approach in a dynamic environment.