Production Engineer: Improve Production Flow & Quality

Found Industrial; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Found Industrial seeks a Production Engineer to join its West Sussex team. You will collaborate with Production, Engineering and Quality to develop, improve and standardise manufacturing processes across the business.

You will work on tooling and fixtures, develop work instructions and support trials and new equipment to enhance flow, quality and efficiency. A practical engineering background in manufacturing is required.

Qualifications

• Experience as Production/Manufacturing/Process Engineer or similar.
• Practical engineering background in manufacturing.
• Experience improving processes in live production environments.
• Strong problem-solving and root-cause investigation skills.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings.
• Experience producing technical documentation and work instructions.
• Understanding of continuous-improvement principles.
• Confidence to work with production teams.

Responsibilities

• Review existing manufacturing processes and identify improvements.
• Support new products and engineering changes as they move into production.
• Resolve day-to-day manufacturing and process issues.
• Investigate recurring problems and support root-cause analysis.
• Develop work instructions, process documentation and SOPs.
• Improve production flow, quality, repeatability and efficiency.
• Design or improve tooling, fixtures and manufacturing aids.
• Work with operators and supervisors on practical production challenges.
• Support continuous-improvement and cost-reduction projects.
• Improve manufacturability with Design Engineering and Quality.
• Support trials, validation activity and introduction of new equipment or processes.

Skills

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Reading engineering drawings

Technical documentation

Continuous improvement

Team collaboration

Manufacturing processes

Education

Engineering qualification

Job description

Found Industrial seeks a Production Engineer to join its West Sussex team. You will collaborate with Production, Engineering and Quality to develop, improve and standardise manufacturing processes across the business.

You will work on tooling and fixtures, develop work instructions and support trials and new equipment to enhance flow, quality and efficiency. A practical engineering background in manufacturing is required.