Manufacturing Engineer (Instrumentation)

Location: Trowbridge
Contract Type: 12-Month Fixed Term

Role Overview

A manufacturing engineer is needed to design, implement, monitor, and maintain manufacturing processes and work instructions within the medical device industry. The organization is a diagnostics business developing rapid molecular point-of-care testing for infectious disease. This role sits at the interface between design, quality, and external manufacturing partners, ensuring products can be built reliably, consistently, and at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Review manufacturing processes and workflows to identify opportunities for improvement, working closely with line operators, component vendors, and key suppliers.
• Support verification and validation of the production line at a contract manufacturer, ensuring suitable test suites, including in-line process controls, are defined and implemented.
• Apply working knowledge of product design and assembly to the manufacturing process.
• Maintain process documentation, including technical reports such as process capability studies, bills of materials, and process specifications, in line with regulatory and quality assurance requirements.
• Develop processes and procedures that enable the business to meet production targets.
• Design systems and equipment that reduce time and cost while improving quality and safety.
• Work with design engineers to refine product designs for ease of manufacture and assembly.
• Ensure products and sub-assemblies can be manufactured reliably and perform consistently.
• Manage projects using sound engineering principles and techniques.