Roxel UK
Manufacturing Engineer

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Roxel Overview
Roxel is an Anglo-French Company that designs, develops, and manufactures a range of solid propellant rocket motors for use in tactical missiles. Its operations are spread across several sites in the UK and France and it has an annual turnover of about £100M and nearly 700 staff.
Job Opportunity
The UK operations are entirely based at Summerfield, Kidderminster where we now have a requirement for a permanent Production Engineer within the Operations Team.
To support business growth the production engineering team at Roxel seeks talented and enthusiastic engineers to support current and future manufacturing capabilities.
Role Overview
The manufacturing engineer is part of the Operation department structure and is pivotal in solving manufacturing issues, improving processes and methods with manufacturing teams, driving change and continuous improvement to improve shop floor safety, quality, productivity, and new product introduction.
Core Responsibilities
- To provide & develop suitable methods, processes, and instructions for the manufacture of products to meet requirements of safety, quality & productivity
- Designing and implementing machine / tooling modifications to optimise output
- Deliver capital projects from concept to introduction
- Addressing any bottlenecks or issues with production
- To design basic jigs & fixtures, test equipment & tooling as necessary
- Providing technical support, guidance, and training to others.
- Create standard operating procedures for technical tasks and process control documents
- Ensure safety requirements are understood and legal requirements are met
- Maintain accurate records and documentation
- Define and monitor KPI performance.
- Identifying and implementing cost reduction improvements.
- Working alongside the Quality team to verify effectiveness of quality control systems
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Qualifications
Essential Qualifications
- An HNC or HND qualification or higher in a relevant Engineering discipline or equivalent demonstrated practical experience
- Previous proven experience in a production manufacturing environment
Experience
Essential Experience
- Previous experience within a production environment in a Manufacturing Engineering role
- Previous experience in lean manufacturing tools and techniques, including, but not limited to; value stream mapping, 6S, KanBan, Kaizen, MRL, PFMEA and SPC
- Experience in Manufacturing Engineering in an ISO 9001 environment
- Experience in project delivery and problem solving
- Experience of operating within a strong H&S Culture
- IT Literate with experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and Outlook


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Desirable Experience
- Experience of EN9100, AS9100, ISO 14001, 18001 would be an advantage
- Experience in the Defence Industry would be an advantage
- Experience utilising quality tools and Advanced Product Quality Planning techniques including, but not limited to; Capability studies, DoE, 8D, Lean Sigma, Control Plans, APQP
Person Specification
- Ability to work in a diverse and dynamic environment
- Performance driven and self-motivated
- Strong Planning and prioritising activities
- Good communication and interpersonal skills at all levels of the organisation
- Ability to present data effectively
- Problem-solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Effective negotiator
- Ability to negotiate the most complex arrangements with groups and stakeholders
Application
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