Technical Support Engineer in Broughton, Flintshire

Energy Jobline CVL; Broughton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent energy job board in the UK seeks an Aircraft Shop Floor Support Engineer with essential manufacturing and lineside experience. This long-term contract role involves providing shop floor support, problem-solving, and supporting production enablement. The ideal candidate will have experience in aircraft production and a proactive approach to improvement. Remote work options may also be considered.

Qualifications

• Manufacturing / Lineside experience is essential.
• Experience of Aircraft production, engineering methods, and procedures is highly desirable.
• An innovative approach; seeks new ways of doing things.

Responsibilities

• Provide E2E perspective at shopfloor level.
• Support continuous production enablement.
• Identify, analyze & solve recurrent technical issues.

Skills

Manufacturing / Lineside experience

Experience of Aircraft production

Problem-solving ability

Teamwork

Stakeholder Management

Lean Manufacturing

SAP experience

Job description

Energy Jobline is the largest and fastest growing global Energy Job Board and Energy Hub. We have an audience reach of over 7 million energy professionals, 400,000+ monthly advertised global energy and engineering jobs, and work with the leading energy companies worldwide.

We focus on the Oil & Gas, Renewables, Engineering, Power, and Nuclear markets as well as emerging technologies in EV, Battery, and Fusion. We are committed to ensuring that we offer the most exciting career opportunities from around the world for our jobseekers.

Are you an Aircraft Shop Floor Support Engineer with Production Lineside experience, looking for a new long‑term contract role (Inside IR35)?

Objectives

• Provide an E2E perspective at shopfloor level within the production team
• Support continuous production enablement
• Contribute to targets within Continuous Improvement of shop floor processes.
• Identify, analyse & solve recurrent technical issues.

Main Tasks / Activities

General Daily / On Shift Lineside Support

• Daily / on shift line side support to manage technical issues & continuous improvement: missing parts, non‑conformities, concessions if applicable / DQN, Outstanding Work, maintenance, jigs & tools.
• Perform Work Order Management for out of cycle work.
• Escalate recurrent issues & request support to the Work Prep, PPE, Maintenance, MAP & Outstanding Work support functions roles, if not manageable at level 1.
• Support capacity management: anticipate capacity fluctuation to cover changes in the PLC (product life cycle situation) and grow competence.
• Support on identifying issues in production as well as problems not solvable by the FLM and operators and elevate/request support to the Work Prep (PE), Line Balancing (PPE), Maintenance, MAP & OSW or support function roles.
• Support the analysis of the industrial systems and processes to assess their efficiency and effectiveness.
• Support on continuous work improvement as well as on the elimination of waste (LEAN).
• Industrial Assets – Daily / on shift line side, support on industrial assets.
• Support on the request for repair and the creation of specific requests for small tools.
• Support on writing the specification for the creation of new jigs and tools as well as the modification or improvement of existing jigs and tools and their calibration.

Work Order Management – Daily / On Shift Line Side

• Support by flagging blocked work orders to be discussed at appropriate meetings.
• Support Production to prioritize the Execution of the Serial and Rework Work Order if linked to NC, Concession or Blocking Point.

Environment, Health and Safety – Daily / On Shift Line Side

• Support on making EH&S rules transparent on the shopfloor.
• Support on ensuring EH&S standards are applied on the station.
• Support on cascading the EH&S requirements to the shopfloor.
• Support on identifying and solving Near Misses.

Quality – Daily / On Shift Line Side

• Support in ensuring that production processes and standards are applied on the station.
• Support in ensuring that quality standards are applied on the station.

Logistics – Daily / On Shift Line Side

• Support the prioritization of pulling materials related to Rework Work Order to the respective executing station.

Skills & Experience

• Manufacturing / Lineside experience is essential.
• Experience of Aircraft production, engineering methods and procedures is highly desirable.
• An innovative approach; looks for new ways of doing things.
• Strong practical problem‑solving ability.
• Systematic and organized approach.
• Flexible to changing customer needs.
• Teamwork.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Lean Manufacturing.
• Customer Focused.
• SAP experience.

This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan.

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