Production Engineer

Marshall Land Systems; Merthyr Tydfil; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Marshall Land Systems is seeking a Production Engineer to drive innovation and continuous improvement across our manufacturing operations. You will work in a multidisciplinary team to develop smarter production and assembly processes, introduce lean manufacturing techniques, and shape systems, facilities and equipment for future growth.

Your role includes reviewing designs for cost and lead-time reductions, developing standard processes, ensuring quality through PFMEA, and implementing new

Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing, assembly, or vehicle build environments.
• Experience interpreting technical drawings and engineering documentation.
• Experience in a regulated or quality-controlled manufacturing environment (desirable).
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Ability to engage and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent communication skills and proactive attitude.
• Broad knowledge of composite materials and manufacturing processes.
• Experience in aerospace component manufacturing and AS9100-accredited assembly processes.
• Demonstrable experience in a similar production engineering role.
• Technical qualification relevant to production, engineering, or manufacturing (desirable).
• Experience with process improvement or lean manufacturing initiatives (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Support Project Management Plans (PMP) and Systems Engineering Management Plans (SEMP) by advising on production approaches.
• Review product concepts and detailed designs, recommending process simplifications to reduce cost, complexity, and lead time.
• Perform production engineering drawing checks for new and revised parts.
• Develop standard processes that enable efficient, cost-effective production and assembly.
• Identify requirements for jigs, fixtures, and tooling; support their development and alignment with assembly approaches via Statements of Work (SoW).
• Determine preferred Conditions of Supply (CoS) for parts and components.
• Review proposed process changes against Process Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (PFMEA).
• Communicate process changes to Operations and support implementation.
• Conduct or support root cause analyses for product quality issues, implementing corrective actions where necessary.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies to improve production efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance quality.

Skills

Manufacturing

Assembly

Vehicle build

Technical drawings

Engineering documentation

Excel

Word

Lean manufacturing

Root cause analysis

Quality control

AS9100

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Brief Description

As a Production Engineer at Marshall Land Systems, you’ll play a key role in driving innovation and continuous improvement across our manufacturing operations. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll use your engineering expertise to develop smarter, more efficient production and assembly processes, introduce lean manufacturing techniques, and help shape the systems, facilities and equipment that support our future growth. It’s a role where you can make a tangible impact, combining technical expertise with practical problem-solving to deliver safe, high-quality and continually improving manufacturing solutions.

Why join Marshall Land Systems in this role:

As a Production Engineer at Marshall Land Systems, you’ll play a key role in driving innovation and continuous improvement across our manufacturing operations. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll use your engineering expertise to develop smarter, more efficient production and assembly processes, introduce lean manufacturing techniques, and help shape the systems, facilities and equipment that support our future growth. It’s a role where you can make a tangible impact, combining technical expertise with practical problem-solving to deliver safe, high-quality and continually improving manufacturing solutions.

Your responsibilities in this role include:

• Support Project Management Plans (PMP) and Systems Engineering Management Plans (SEMP) by advising on production approaches
• Review product concepts and detailed designs, recommending process simplifications to reduce cost, complexity, and lead time
• Perform production engineering drawing checks for new and revised parts
• Develop standard processes that enable efficient, cost-effective production and assembly
• Identify requirements for jigs, fixtures, and tooling; support their development and alignment with assembly approaches via Statements of Work (SoW)
• Determine preferred Conditions of Supply (CoS) for parts and components
• Review proposed process changes against Process Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (PFMEA)
• Communicate process changes to Operations and support implementation
• Conduct or support root cause analyses for product quality issues, implementing corrective actions where necessary
• Evaluate and implement new technologies to improve production efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance quality

Apply if you have most of the following:

• Experience in manufacturing, assembly, or vehicle build environments
• Experience interpreting technical drawings and engineering documentation
• Experience in a regulated or quality-controlled manufacturing environment (desirable)
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel
• Ability to engage and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels
• Excellent communication skills and proactive, dynamic attitude
• Broad knowledge of composite materials and manufacturing processes
• Experience in aerospace component manufacturing and AS9100-accredited assembly processes
• Demonstrable experience in a similar production engineering role
• Technical qualification relevant to production, engineering, or manufacturing (desirable)
• Experience with process improvement or lean manufacturing initiatives (desirable)

Additional Local Needs

• Full time working onsite would be required
• Successful candidate would be required to complete a BPSS check

The benefits in this role include:

• Opportunity to influence and optimise production processes across the facility
• Exposure to end-to-end production and assembly operations
• Involvement in continuous improvement and lean initiatives
• Development opportunities into senior production engineering or operations leadership roles
• Collaboration across multiple technical and operational functions

Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian-owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world. From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.

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