Manufacturing Industrial Engineer

Manufacturing Industrial Engineer

Expleo is currently recruiting for Manufacturing Industrial Engineers to support one of our customers with a BOM managers role on an Aerospace R&D project.

The role will involve the creation, accuracy and management of the BOM structure for a number of products and will include liaison with design and stress to understand the drawing release plan. Speaking with suppliers and aligning the component manufacturing schedules and supply chain requirements with the on dock build plan dates.

The contract can be for sub-contract labour but staff positions are available for the right candidates. The successful candidates will play a key role in delivering a high-quality service to our client and will be expected to be proactive and self-motivated in delivering the targeted outputs to support the product.

The Manufacturing Engineers will report directly to the Programme Delivery Leader (PDL) and their role will involve them to be based both on and off the Customers site as the need dictates.

Working within the ME team in our Aero Business Unit, successful candidates will join our experienced team, with whom you will work on varied projects in high-tech and future-oriented industries taking on exciting and responsible tasks according to your skills and knowledge, thus expanding your existing know-how.

Responsibilities

• Programme support activities:
  • Updating and checking project compliance to the Quality Assurance and Configuration Management plans
  • Document archiving for Flight Clearance evidence
  • PLM System configuration management for Data Drops, DFM release and manufacturing/assembly deviations
  • Managing the project level product breakdown structure
  • Support to end to end routebook planning, particularly regularly integrating the Lvl 2 and 3 schedule inputs
  • Act on behalf of the Industrial team to liaise with the Design team to ensure a clear, shared view on design data release needs and status
• Deliverables
  • Creation, management and weekly update and reporting of project change request tracker covering CR status and detail
  • Management of change request repository with all CRs linked/referenced from tracker
  • Creation and update of compliance matrices vs Quality Assurance and Configuration Management with links to supporting evidence/data
  • Creation, management and reporting of Flight Clearance compliance matrix and data repository
  • Manage configuration of all data within PLM system - produce and report weekly statistics on DFM and manufacturing/assembly drawing status Create and publish Product Breakdown Structure. Review applicability monthly for any updates required.
  • Updated routebook delivered monthly
• Industrial activities:
  • Manage the overall parts tracker for three extension assemblies with detail part suppliers, tracking dates of data delivery, programming and manufacturing
  • Quality assurance activities with suppliers and within the Plant environment, sourcing, monitoring and recording required evidence and paperwork where applicable
  • Interrogation of DMU using CATIA v5 to extract relevant models for onward communication as required
• Deliverables
  • Create and maintain a Bill of Materials (BOM) for each of the variants.
  • Fortnightly updates on status of all detailed parts and components through follow up with stakeholders and drumbeating of suppliers. This will include a strong focus on the fastener BOM and follow-up to ensure timely delivery of fasteners.
  • Creation, management and update of industrial data plan, capturing data drop status and linking to archived, configuration-controlled data for each data drop.
  • Create and maintain a quality assurance tracker capturing all information and evidence related to the
  • Condition of Supply conformity of all components. To be reviewed with Industrial lead on a weekly basis.

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree, or equivalent, with proven practical Engineering & manufacturing knowledge and experience
• Candidates without accredited qualifications will be considered depending upon experience

Essential Skills

• Proactive 'Team Player' with a focus on delivery and quality who can work and act autonomously
• Ability to liaise at all levels of the business management structure
• Excellent communication skills and decision maker
• Have good written and verbal communication skills and be capable of making sound technical judgements and appropriate decisions
• Practical problem solving skills
• Very good knowledge of SAP and MS Office
• Assertiveness, independent, structured way of working and the ability to find oneself in a multicultural working environment

Experience

• Experience of Manufacturing Processes and standards
• Several years of professional experience in a manufacturing and R&T environment
• Aerospace & Defence experience preferable but Marine & Automotive will be considered
• Proactive Team Player with a focus on delivery and quality
• Good communicator who is professional during interactions with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Happy to train and coach others
• Experience on 3D CAD system such as Solidworks, Catia, NX
• Candidates will have a proven track record of delivering effective engineering solutions within cost, time and quality constraints
• Competencies required in this role will include Decision Quality, Creativity, Technical Learning, Composure and Customer Focus

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive