NPI Manufacturing Engineer: Pilot to Production Expert

Mode-Labs; Oxford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee share-option scheme

25 days paid leave

Company pension contributions matched

Group life & legacy cover

Annual discretionary training

Charity volunteering day

Travel-to-work loan and cycle-to-work

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Mode Labs is building autonomous opto-chemical sensing systems in Oxfordshire and seeks an NPI Engineer to industrialise a first commercial platform. You will own manufacturing processes, tooling, documentation and test activities, and coordinate pilot builds towards production transfer.

This role spans product build, process development, tooling and data, driving safe, repeatable and scalable production with cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Typically two or more years' relevant experience in manufacturing, production engineering or the build and test of a complex technical product.
• Hands-on experience assembling, testing and troubleshooting complex technical products.
• Experience creating or improving manufacturing processes, work instructions, fixtures or test methods.
• Experience defining and improving assembly, calibration, inspection or test processes.
• Experience designing, specifying or manufacturing tooling, jigs, fixtures or test equipment.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, CAD data; familiarity with mechanical CAD tools such as SolidWorks or eDrawings.
• Ability to produce clear work instructions, test procedures, build records and manufacturing reports.
• Ability to take responsibility for a defined work package, organise priorities and communicate progress clearly.
• Ability to balance evolving design with the need to finalise production drawings for manufacture.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate pilot and pre-production build activities and capture learnings between builds.
• Provide practical design-for-manufacture, design-for-assembly and design-for-test input across optical, mechanical, electronic, fluidic interfaces.
• Review designs, BOMs, specs and production docs, identify manufacturing issues and gaps.
• Develop, document and release assembly, inspection, calibration and end-of-line test processes.
• Design or specify tooling, jigs, fixtures and test equipment for repeatable production.
• Establish process controls, acceptance criteria, traceability and production records.

Skills

Hands-on manufacturing

Root-cause analysis

Documentation

CAD reading

Project ownership

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

SolidWorks

eDrawings

Job description

Mode Labs is building autonomous opto-chemical sensing systems in Oxfordshire and seeks an NPI Engineer to industrialise a first commercial platform. You will own manufacturing processes, tooling, documentation and test activities, and coordinate pilot builds towards production transfer.

This role spans product build, process development, tooling and data, driving safe, repeatable and scalable production with cross-functional collaboration.