April Quest
Senior Production Engineer / Team Leader
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About the Company
An innovative, established technology manufacturer developing specialist high-performance systems for a range of global industrial and technology markets.
Info about the Senior Production Engineer / Team Leader Role
This is a hands-on technical leadership role within Operations, leading a small Process / Production Engineering team supporting a low-volume, high-value manufacturing environment. The role acts as a key gatekeeper between Engineering and Production ensuring products, processes, tooling, documentation, and manufacturing requirements are fully ready before release into production.
You will lead a small team covering Process Engineering, Special Processes, NPI, and Project Engineering, while remaining technically involved in resolving production, build, and test issues. Typical activities include:
- Attending daily Operations meetings
- Reviewing production turnbacks
- Investigating root causes
- Improving tooling and work instructions
- Supporting calibration and test equipment
- Coordinating technical priorities
- Helping deliver new product introductions
The position is primarily site based, with a 4 days onsite / 1 day from home hybrid arrangement, although flexibility will be required depending on operational needs.
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Essential Requirements
- Technical engineering background in Mechatronics, Electrical, Electronics, or Mechanical Engineering.
- Strong hands-on engineering experience within a manufacturing, production, or test environment.
- Experience investigating and resolving production, build, and test issues using structured problem solving and root-cause analysis.
- Experience working with production processes, test equipment, tooling, calibration, or similar technical assets.
- Previous experience leading, mentoring, or coordinating engineers, or strong evidence of the people skills and capability to step into a Team Leader role.
- Able to provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and mentoring across a technical engineering team.
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to balance hands-on technical delivery, priorities, ownership, and accountability.
- Experience coordinating technical work, resources, and priorities across multiple engineering activities.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, working cross-functionally with Engineering, Production, Quality, and Purchasing.
Desirable Requirements
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- Experience within low-volume, high-value manufacturing.
- Lean / Continuous Improvement qualification such as Yellow Belt or Green Belt, or practical CI experience.
- Experience supporting new product introduction, process development, and production-readiness activities, including DfM and manufacturing handover.
- Experience supporting 1:1s, objective setting, performance management, and employee development, or a clear desire and capability to develop in these areas.
- Experience with engineering and manufacturing tools such as CAD, ERP/MRP systems, basic scripting/programming such as Python, and manufacturing/test technologies.
- Previous exposure to calibration, soak testing, final test, or technically complex production processes.
Benefits
- Discretionary company performance bonus
- 27 days’ annual leave plus public holidays
- Workplace pension with 5% employee and 5% employer contributions via salary sacrifice
- Income protection cover
- Life assurance / death-in-service benefit
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Smart-casual working environment
- Private healthcare cover
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