The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for supporting the development, industrialisation and optimisation of manufacturing processes within a specific domain or 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.
- 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).
- Develop, industrialise, optimise and control manufacturing processes to ensure safe, repeatable, and cost‑effective production.
- Drive root‑cause analysis and corrective actions using structured problem‑solving methodologies (8D, 5 Why, Ishikawa).
- Specify rework instructions aligned with technical requirements.
- Ensure manufacturing readiness for new equipment, tooling, and factory layouts, including capability and validation studies.
- Tooling management for production including specifying tools, maintaining assets and registries
.Leadership & Collaboration
- Act as the technical point of contact between Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Production, and Programme teams relating to manufacturing processes.
- Lead the introduction of design & process changes into production for in‑service products.
- Facilitate cross-functional reviews to align requirements, constraints and capability.
- Represent Manufacturing Engineering in programme meetings, readiness reviews, and customer interactions when required
Governance & Standards
- Ensure compliance with aerospace, regulatory, and internal standards (AS9100, HSE, Safran standards).
- Maintain process governance through controlled documentation and change management.
- Lead QRQC and MRB technical investigations; ensure timely decisions and close‑out actions.
- Change Management Approval: Approve design changes and raise concessions, permits, PRs.
- Conduct gauge R\&R studies.
- Support adherence to Production System standards (standard work, 5S, PPS, A3).
- Conduct and act upon ergonomic reviews and risk assessment
.Innovation & CI (Continuous Improvement)
- Identify opportunities to eliminate waste and improve quality using Lean and Six Sigma tools.
- Champion CI initiatives (5S, Kaizen, layout optimisation, flow).
- Collect data and track trends.
- Run small CI projects to improve FTQR, reduce build times and remove waste.
Financial Accountability
- Support cost‑reduction through process efficiency and waste elimination.
- Track performance via KPIs; inform make/buy, investment proposals, and CoNQ reduction.
