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About Safran Actuation Systems UK
Safran Actuation Systems UK is a world class centre for the design, manufacture and support of cutting-edge actuation and flight control solutions used across commercial, military and rotary platforms. With major sites in Wolverhampton and Banbury, our teams play a critical role in delivering innovative, reliable and safe systems that keep aircraft performing at their best.
We are looking for passionate individuals to join our Manufacturing Engineering team as a Manufacturing Engineer at our Wolverhampton site.
The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for supporting the development, industrialisation and optimisation of manufacturing processes within the Prismatic machining module.
The role provides day to day technical support to Operations, contributes to problem solving and process improvements, and ensures processes, documentation and equipment support safe, repeatable and cost effective production.
The position plays a key role in maintaining process control, supporting continuous improvement activities, and ensuring compliance with internal, customer and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Support ongoing production.
- Be the technical focal point (Manufacturing) for Operations, resolving process issues, non conformances, and bottlenecks.
- Create and maintain process documentation (work instructions, routings, PFMEAs, control plans, factory layout drawings etc).
- Updating manufacturing instruction to reflect changes.
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions using structured problem solving methodologies.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to eliminate waste and improve quality using Lean and Six Sigma tools.
- Champion CI initiatives (5S, Kaizen, layout optimisation, flow).
- Industrialization of existing product and new product introduction.
- develop, industrialise, optimise and control manufacturing processes to ensure safe, repeatable, and cost effective production.Standardization of existing product and new product introduction.
- Tooling management for production including specifying tools, maintaining assets and registries
- Identify & implement standardized manufacturing processes
Manage Change
- Ensure manufacturing readiness for new equipment, tooling, and factory layouts, including capability, validation studies & management of change.
- Act as the technical point of contact between Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Production, and Programme teams relating to manufacturing processes
