Niftylift Ltd
Production and Continuous Improvement Engineer
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An exciting opportunity for a Production and Continuous Improvement Engineer
Niftylift Limited is one of the world's leading privately owned designers and manufacturers of mobile elevated work platforms. Our customer base is global, with products sold and locally supported in over 40 different countries. This success is comprehensively supported by a team of over 400 full-time members of staff across our three UK centres of excellence / manufacturing sites in the UK.
The Role in Detail
As the Production and Continuous Improvement Engineer, you will work within the Production Engineering Team to provide support for a welding value stream, including both manual and automated processes, and systems to assess, analyse and develop Continuous Improvement opportunities and the most cost-effective method of value-added production output.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct accurate Value Stream Mapping alongside time studies to support accurate labour and capacity planning, with true process costings to ensure accurate product costing
- Administration and maintain the accuracy of bills of materials and part locations
- Maintain and develop the production process documentation/instructions used across the value stream
- Develop and document all parts of the production process, through Standard Operating Procedures, Works Instructions and How to Guides
- Support the continuous improvement of Health & Safety and Environmental targets, liaising with the Environmental Health & Safety Officer to test and project manage the implementation of improvements
- Conduct audits on production process operator to assess for adherence to company standards and opportunities for improvement
- Responsible for hands-on analysis, problem-solving, and development of all production processes, methods, and engineering specifications
- Logistics development through defining/implementing refined parts flow, location organisation, and material control processes/Kanban systems
- Develop and maintain the practices necessary to achieve excellent housekeeping standards through 5S and Visual Factory
- Project management of small to medium projects. Driven to deliver projects from initiation to implementation and handover
- Targeted to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of all operations and engineering specifications
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Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or 5 years' experience
- Demonstrated working knowledge of Lean in the manufacturing field
- Excellent analytical skills combined with good negotiation and conflict management skills
- Project management experience
- Experience with Manual and Automated welding
- Experience with Introducing and Sustaining Logistics based processes
- Experience with CAD packages, preferably AutoCAD and Creo
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Characteristics
- Adaptable to accept changes in the field of production engineering
- Strong organisation, planning, and implementation skills
- Ability to identify problems and resolve them quickly
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Self-driven with a positive attitude
- Result oriented
Salary & Working Hours
- Working hours for the role are 40 per week (07:30 - 16:30, Monday - Thursday, and 07:30 - 13:30 on Friday)
Benefits
- Annual bonus (for indication only) based on recent average £500 per annum
- 25 days holiday (increases with service, up to 30 days), plus bank holidays
- Store discounts
- Discounted gym memberships
- Free on-site parking
- Subsidised refreshments
- Health cover scheme for dental, optical etc. (Additional Membership available for Partners, paid for by employee. Kids membership included for free)
- 5% contributory pension
- Life insurance scheme
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Referral programme
- Workwear (including safety shoes and PPE)
- On-site changing rooms
If you meet the criteria above, please apply online today!
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