NPI Manufacturing Engineer: Scale Innovative Tech

Oxford Instruments plc; Severn Beach; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private healthcare

Share Incentive Plan

Pension

Career development

Excellent work-life balance

Job summary

Oxford Instruments is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer (NPI) to lead the introduction of new products into production, ensuring scalable, cost‑effective processes while meeting top quality standards. You will bridge product development and manufacturing with cross‑functional teamwork across engineering, operations and supply chain.

The role requires strong technical capability, excellent communication, and project management skills, plus experience guiding NPI in electro‑mechanical environments

Qualifications

• Degree in Manufacturing Engineering or related field.
• Significant electro-mechanical manufacturing experience.
• Proven experience leading New Product Introduction (NPI) activities.
• Strong understanding of PFMEA, Control Plans and APQP.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and BOMs.
• Excellent problem‑solving and cross‑functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the industrialisation and scale-up of new and existing products.
• Define manufacturing processes, layouts, tooling, fixtures, jigs and equipment requirements.
• Act as key technical liaison between suppliers, production teams and engineering.
• Develop and maintain manufacturing documentation including work instructions, SOPs and routings.
• Support prototype, pilot and pre-production builds and drive lessons learned into readiness.
• Collaborate across Design Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain and Production.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Effective communication

Education

Manufacturing Engineering degree

Tools

Solid Edge

Job description

Oxford Instruments is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer (NPI) to lead the introduction of new products into production, ensuring scalable, cost‑effective processes while meeting top quality standards. You will bridge product development and manufacturing with cross‑functional teamwork across engineering, operations and supply chain.

The role requires strong technical capability, excellent communication, and project management skills, plus experience guiding NPI in electro‑mechanical environments