Senior Production Engineer

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Bristol Superlight

A rapidly growing Automotive company that’s transforming traditional commercial vehicles to manufacture the next generation of revolutionary electric trucks is currently looking to recruit a Senior Production Engineer. This role will be involved in the implementation of production processes and procedures, leading productivity improvements with project-based activities, including new product introduction and manufacturing cell design to reduce waste, improve quality and safety, and reduce operating costs.

The Senior Production Engineer duties include:

• Design and develop new processes, fixtures and tooling to ensure the integration of full electric trucks into manufacturing operations.
• Improve manufacturing efficiency by analysing and planning workflow, space requirements and equipment layout.
• Support and lead continuous improvement, problem solving and process improvement activities
• Carry out FMEAs, (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) process documentation and implement improvements.
• Quality control of work by appropriate reviews.
• Write reports and present progress at project meetings to internal stakeholders.
• Conduct benchmarking studies to determine best practices/designs and future trends.

The Senior Production Engineer will have:

• A degree level qualification in Engineering is essential.
• Prior experience within a Production Engineering role within the automotive industry. Prior experience in vehicle electrification is highly desirable.
• Prior experience designing manufacturing processes and layouts & carrying out FMEA’s and Kaizen/A3.
• Knowledge of functional safety requirements (ISO26262 or IEC61508) is desirable but not essential.