Manufacturing Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

Hands‑on manufacturing role focused on improving how products are built on the shop floor.

This position sits within a production engineering environment and is centred on continuous improvement, process development and supporting production teams day to day.

• Leading and coordinating continuous improvement activity across the shop floor
• Improving layouts, workflows, routing and work instructions
• Supporting root cause, non‑conformance and 8D investigations
• Managing and maintaining production process documentation
• Supporting design engineering with new processes and products
• Training and upskilling production staff on new processes and standards
• Supporting production builds, first‑offs and tooling improvements
• Applying Lean and 5S tools to improve efficiency and consistency

The role is primarily site‑based with occasional UK travel.

You’ll come from a manufacturing or production engineering background and be comfortable working directly with operators, supervisors and engineers.

• Have experience in process or production engineering
• Are confident driving CI activity on the shop floor
• Understand Lean, 5S and structured problem‑solving
• Are practical, organised and comfortable training others
• Prefer improving real processes over desk‑based theory