Process Engineer

Atlas Copco; Washington; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious manufacturing company in the UK is seeking a Process Engineer to improve production processes and ensure compliance with health and safety standards. The role requires leadership in safety and progressive product introductions, with a focus on implementing efficient manufacturing practices. Candidates should hold relevant degrees and possess strong experience in lean manufacturing and continuous improvement strategies.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years’ experience in an industrial manufacturing role.
• Proven experience of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.
• Hands-on Six Sigma experience and qualification is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Ensure health and safety legislative standards in production.
• Constantly improve processes and implement revised methods.
• Manage and create product and process SOPs.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Continuous improvement

FMEA

8D

Ishikawa diagrams

5-why

SPC

Six Sigma

Excellent communication

Effective team player

Education

Degree in relevant field

HND/HNC

Job description

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An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Operations Department for a permanent Process Engineer position, reporting to the Process Engineering Manager. This role also works closely with Production Section Leaders and QA Engineering team.

Responsibilities include:

Health and Safety

Ensure that health, safety and environmental legislative standards are adhered to across all areas of the production environment.

Responsible for ensuring that all safety requirements are clearly stated in the relevant Production SOPs.

Production Process Improvement

Constant review and improvement to ensure effective and efficient process re-engineering, training, piece-part flow etc. Recommend, innovate and implement revised methods and processes to ensure labour costs are in line with the Business objectives.

SOPs

Take ownership and lead for the creation and management of all product and process SOP’s. Ensuring control and adherence within the manufacturing environment (Cross functional sign off). Promote a culture which ensures discipline of standards and expectations are followed and met at all times. Roll out training programmes for all new processes introduced.

Ensure all manufacturing activities to be covered by an SOP and objective assessment located on SharePoint.

Active role in the completion of CCA’s ensuring the Quality Engineering team are supported to close out complaints in a timely manner.

Ensure continuous improvement in quantity of process related CCAs from the CCA log.

New Product Introduction

Take a lead role to ensure the team actively progress all NPI’s relative to their responsible product areas. Ensure project plan updates are effectively communicated. Preparation of production area(s) to ensure timely/effective product introductions. Validating requirements for jigs and fixtures as required and ensuring a detailed capital expenditure justification is produced.

Ensuring that full buy off has been conducted with documented evidence of this. (FAT / SAT documents)

Ensure that production metrics are recorded and submitted.

Support quality department in the interrogation of NRFT KPI’s and implement actions to remedy for each of the key production areas. Actions should show a clear reduction in the NRFT figure month on month.

Inter-departmental Interface

To provide the primary process interface between allocated manufacturing departments and Technical and Sales.

Ensure all NPI actions are implemented within agreed timeline from NPI meeting / log.

Ensure all PNR and PCD actions are implemented within agreed timeline.

Process change management

Ensure all changes made to process’s are captured via the management of change system.

Full stakeholder sign off and review is used when conducting any process change.

Any other reasonable task the manager may deem as suitable for the role

PERSON SPECIFICATION

The competencies listed are appropriate to the Production / Process Improvement Engineer and are an illustration of the qualities that the Company requires

Professional Requirements

• Degree Educated in a relevant field or relevant experience with equivalent qualifications (HND / HNC)
• 3 - 5 years’ experience in an industrial manufacturing role
• Proven experience of lean manufacturing, continuous improvement and business improvement tools and techniques.
• Working knowledge of FMEA, 8D, Ishikawa diagrams, 5-why, and SPC. (Yellow / green belt highly desirable)
• Hands-on Six Sigma experience and qualification is highly desirable.
• Experience of working to stringent audited ISO quality standards.
• Experience of transforming manual processes to automated and from batch to single piece flow.
• Ability to work on own initiative with a pro-active strategic approach to challenges
• Confident commercial awareness and clear business acumen
• Ability to influence individuals and teams to achieve desired goals and objectives
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Effective team player
• Ability to motivate and lead a team to achieve set goals
• Ability to take a systematic approach to daily operations
• Highly motivated and able to build close relationships internally and externally to achieve an end goal