Production Engineer

TeamJobs; Southampton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

TeamJobs is seeking a hands-on Production Engineer in Southampton to help drive improvements across machinery, processing lines and packaging systems. You’ll join a British manufacturer investing in new ideas, its capability and people, with ambitious growth plans and an energetic culture.

You’ll lead equipment settings, troubleshoot faults, perform preventative maintenance and support trials to improve output, quality and efficiency. A proactive, curious mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong mechanical aptitude and practical experience with setting, operating and fault-finding automated or semi-automated machinery.
• Experience with filling, capping, labeling, coding, packaging or conveyor equipment would be relevant.
• Exposure to pneumatics, electrical systems, PLC-controlled machinery, preventative maintenance, 5S, SMED, RCA or OEE would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Setting and changing over production and packaging machinery.
• Troubleshooting mechanical, pneumatic and basic electrical/control faults.
• Responding to breakdowns and reducing downtime.
• Carrying out preventative maintenance, inspections and minor repairs.
• Adjusting equipment to improve output, quality and efficiency.
• Identifying recurring faults and getting to the root cause.
• Supporting machine trials, new equipment and process improvements.
• Improving changeover times, reliability, waste and overall equipment performance.
• Providing technical support and coaching to Machine Setters and Production Operators.
• Helping maintain high standards of safety, quality and housekeeping.

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Problem solving

Curious mindset

Proactive

Tools

Pneumatic systems

Electrical systems

PLC-controlled machinery

5S

SMED

RCA

OEE

Job description

Production Engineer - Great Client and Culture

Southampton

Excellent Benefits package

Looking for an engineering role that’s a little different from the norm? We’re recruiting for an innovative, fast-growing British manufacturer with a fantastic brand, ambitious growth plans and a genuinely energetic culture. This is a business that invests in new ideas, its manufacturing capability and its people — and they’re looking for a hands‑on Production Engineer who wants to make a real impact.

About the Role as Production Engineer

You’ll be joining at an exciting stage of growth, with plenty of opportunity to improve machinery, solve problems, introduce better ways of working and help shape how the production operation develops.

Responsibilities as Production Engineer

• Setting and changing over production and packaging machinery
• Troubleshooting mechanical, pneumatic and basic electrical/control faults
• Responding to breakdowns and reducing downtime
• Carrying out preventative maintenance, inspections and minor repairs
• Adjusting equipment to improve output, quality and efficiency
• Identifying recurring faults and getting to the root cause
• Supporting machine trials, new equipment and process improvements
• Improving changeover times, reliability, waste and overall equipment performance
• Providing technical support and coaching to Machine Setters and Production Operators
• Helping maintain high standards of safety, quality and housekeeping

Required Skills and Experience as Production Engineer

We’re interested in people from backgrounds such as Production Engineering, Machine Setting, Engineering Setting, Production Technician or Manufacturing Engineering

• Strong mechanical aptitude and practical experience of setting, operating and fault-finding automated or semi-automated machinery
• Experience with filling, capping, labelling, coding, packaging or conveyor equipment would be particularly relevant
• Exposure to pneumatics, electrical systems, PLC‑controlled machinery, preventative maintenance, 5S, SMED, RCA or OEE would also be beneficial, but you don’t necessarily need to tick every box

Above all, we’re looking for someone who is curious, proactive and solutions-focused — someone who enjoys figuring out why something isn’t working, fixing it and then finding a way to make it work better next time. A positive attitude goes a long way