Senior Lean Production & CI Engineer (On-site Barnsley)

Niftylift Ltd; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Gym membership discount

Free parking

Subsidised refreshments

Pension plan

Referral programme

Workwear

Changing rooms

Job summary

Niftylift Ltd in Barnsley, UK, is seeking a Senior Production and Continuous Improvement Engineer to lead the Production Engineering Team and drive Lean manufacturing across the shop floor, delivering efficient processes and waste reduction.

The role requires an engineering degree or 5 years’ experience, Lean/Six Sigma expertise, and strong people leadership. You will manage projects, develop processes, and ensure safety and quality in a fast-growing manufacturing environment on site.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or 5 years’ experience.
• Experience with Lean/Six Sigma in manufacturing.
• Strong analytical and people-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage the production engineering team on project-based improvements.
• Apply LEAN tools (Value Stream Mapping) to identify Non-Value Added activities within the process to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Responsible for introduction of new parts by working with within the engineering change system.
• Administration of controlled build and maintaining the accuracy of the companies bills of materials and part locations. Maintain and develop the build process documentation/instructions used in all areas of production.
• Through liaison with production personnel, review, control and implement effective and efficient improvements to engineering specifications, fixtures/tooling, build operations and logistics organisation.
• Provide support to quality assurance/control activities with reference to supplier, customer, and internal quality/engineering issues. Liaison and review with suppliers to resolve engineering queries and manufacturing/engineering cost down improvements. Responsible for hands on analysis, problem solving and development of all production processes, methods and engineering specifications.Maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of all operations and engineering specifications.
• Development of cellular manufacturing/flow line/single piece flow principles through each of the product/supply areas, including value stream mapping, balancing, simplification, tooling, fixtures, and configuration/ergonomics of workstations.
• People / culture development and training in alignment with new methods / practices being introduced. Encourage and facilitate improvements promoted from the employee teams using Total Quality Management techniques.
• Logistics development through defining/implementing refined parts flow, location organisation and material control processes/Kanban systems.
• Develop and maintain the practices necessary to achieve excellent housekeeping standards through 5S and Visual Factory.
• Be able to conduct timing analysis of current process and determine value and non-value-added activities.

Skills

Lean Six Sigma

Analytical skills

People management

Communication skills

Problem solving

Organisational skills

Self-driven

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Niftylift Ltd in Barnsley, UK, is seeking a Senior Production and Continuous Improvement Engineer to lead the Production Engineering Team and drive Lean manufacturing across the shop floor, delivering efficient processes and waste reduction.

The role requires an engineering degree or 5 years’ experience, Lean/Six Sigma expertise, and strong people leadership. You will manage projects, develop processes, and ensure safety and quality in a fast-growing manufacturing environment on site.