LBBC designs and builds precision pressure equipment and specialist machines — dewaxing and leaching autoclaves, submarine doors and hatches — for some of the most demanding names in aerospace and defence, including Rolls-Royce, Safran, GE, Pratt & Whitney and BAE Systems. We’re a close-knit team where engineers see a product through from raw material to factory acceptance test, not a single station on a line.
We’re looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to take ownership of how we capture and improve our manufacturing processes — and to help lead the production side of our move to a new ERP system (Microsoft Dynamics Business Central). It’s a genuinely broad role with real autonomy: you’ll be the person who turns decades of shop-floor know-how into structured, repeatable process, and who makes our builds run leaner and cleaner
What you'll be doing:
- Building the routings, bills of materials, work instructions and build packs that underpin our products and our new ERP
- Working across fabrication, machining and assembly to document processes and design out waste and rework
- Getting onto the shop floor with our fabricators, machinists and fitters to capture how things really get built — and making them better
- Defining pressure test and factory acceptance stages, and feeding accurate build times into planning
- Driving down quality defects through root cause analysis and practical process change.
What we’re looking for:
- A qualified manufacturing, mechanical or production engineer who’s worked in bespoke or low-volume engineering
- Hands-on knowledge of at least one of fabrication, machining or assembly — and the adaptability to work credibly across all three
- Experience building manufacturing data (routings, BOMs, work instructions) for an ERP or MRP system
- Someone organised and self-starting, comfortable reading engineering drawings, who can win the confidence of an experienced shop floor
ERP implementation experience and a background in pressure equipment, defence or aerospace would be a real bonus — but we care more about the right approach than a perfect tick-list
Apply now if you’re looking for a varied role with genuine ownership in a respected British engineering business, working on equipment that matters.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: Up to £45,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Profit sharing
- Sick pay
Application question(s):
- Do you, or will you in the future need sponsorship to work in the UK?
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
