Senior Manufacturing Development Engineer

Bond Williams Professional Recruitment; Oxford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leading salary

Superb progression opportunities

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Development Engineer to shape processes from experimental stages to scalable production. This role involves defining and validating processes, ensuring capability, yield, and cost-effectiveness in high-volume manufacturing. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in Engineering and proven experience in process engineering, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional environment. This position offers significant progression opportunities and competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience in a similar manufacturing development or process engineering role.
• Ability to devise manufacturing processes from scratch.
• Strong presence on the shop floor with excellent collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the journey from experimental process to scalable production.
• Define a process, prove it works, and hand it over confidently.
• Responsible for capability, yield, cost, and scalability.

Skills

Hands-on problem solving

Engineering fundamentals

Process design

Collaboration

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Manufacturing Development Engineer to own the journey from experimental process to stable, scalable production. This is a role for someone who thrives at the boundary between development and operations who can define a process, prove it works, and hand it over with confidence.

From initial process definition and validation through to full industrialisation, you'll be responsible for capability, yield, cost and scalability. This is a high-impact role that spans the full NPI lifecycle and your work will aim to fulfil our client’s ambitions to deliver at volume.

The Senior Manufacturing Development Engineer will have a proven track record of taking processes from early development through to stable, high-volume production. Comfortable with formal qualification methodologies, structured problem-solving, and the rigour of controlled production environments, you know how to write a control plan, lead a root cause analysis, and build the documentation that makes a process transferable. Just as importantly, you're a confident collaborator and as confident on the shop floor as in the office.

The ideal Manufacturing Development Engineer will possess:

• A Master’s degree in Engineering and several years experience in a similar manufacturing development / process engineering role
• Excellent hands on problem solving abilities and sound knowledge of engineering fundamentals
• The ability to devise manufacturing processes from scratch
• The skills to work in a cross functional environment and having a strong shop floor mentality and presence.

You'll be joining a team working on genuinely novel manufacturing challenges in a role that provides real scope to shape processes and influence design decision a collaborative environment with a company offering superb progression opportunities in addition to market leading salary and benefits.