Senior Product Engineer Composites

Job type: Permanent Location: Wrightbus Closing date: Monday 14 Oct 2024 08:00 Wrightbus is now recruiting for a Senior Product Engineer Composites. Hours of Work: 4.5 day week Staff Benefits: Life Insurance, Medicash scheme, Free car parking on site, Canteen, Career progression #wbstaff Job Title: Senior Product Engineer - Composite Specialist Department: Manufacturing Operations Reports To: Head of Current Product and Manufacturing Engineering Purpose of Post The Senior Product Engineer, will be pivotal in helping the business increase its capability and understanding of composite technologies, delivering engineering solutions and embedding robust production processes to meet the current and future challenges of the business. You must have a good knowledge of composite manufacturing processes and able to apply the best industry practices to create lightweight, durable, and efficient composite components and assemblies. Key Tasks New Product Introduction (NPI) Develop strong and productive relationships with key stakeholders across the business, ensuring collaboration and engagement with all departments. Support Engineering through Research and Development into new production methods and new materials (such as modifications to composition of Glass Re-inforced Polymer (GRP) and or gel coat paint systems). Co-ordination of new GRP design concepts through to full production. Ensure the composite facility has adequate tooling to support NPI, inclusive of GRP moulds, transport frames, trim templates, router, and assembly tooling. Produce build drawings, workshop procedures and record modifications/improvements during development builds where appropriate. Maintain high standards of personal accountability. Manufacturing Capabilities Ensure all manufacturing processes are safe and capable of achieving the required quality standards Responsible GRP design for manufacture, including evaluation of mould designs to reduce waste and improve efficiency. Surface modelling would be advantageous. Specification of processes, methods, equipment, and tooling to improve manufacturing safety, quality, velocity, and cost within the Composites production facility. Creation of concise standard work instructions for composite components and assemblies to support a Right First Time philosophy. Identification and specification of tooling requirements (for moulding and assembly processes) and the ability to accept/approve tooling for production use. Ensure product process maps are in the most optimum and up to date condition. Assist with labour and material allocation, via estimates or time study activities. Interpretation of engineering drawings ensuring Composites Material Bills of Material (MBOM's) are updated with appropriate routings for materials. Generate and analyse production data and performance metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of production processes and make data driven decisions. Date: August 2024 Manage Change and Improvement Play an active role in the delivery of continuous improvement by identifying ways to reduce costs and improve standards ensuring stakeholder engagement throughout. Responsible for exposing waste within the manufacturing process and developing plans to reduce/eliminate it to improve cost competitiveness of business. Improve manufacturing processes in line with a zero defects philosophy. Assist production management with optimisation of facility layout for efficiency/effectiveness. Assess the performance of current manufacturing processes, using appropriate structured techniques to drive improved performance. Use a data-based approach and techniques such as, 8D and 5 Whys to problem solve within the manufacturing environment. Training and Development Identify areas for process/operator development and implement the appropriate training to address skills gaps. Coach, mentor, and train teams capable of performing the manufacturing processes to the required standards in terms of Safety, Quality, Velocity and Cost. Assist with direct manpower planning through robust process routings and timed activities. Support production management to develop an employee orientated culture that emphasis quality, continuous improvement, and high performance. General Ensure that you treat those with whom they come into contact in a courteous and respectful manner in accordance with the Dignity at Work Procedure. Wrightbus is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection based on merit. The Senior Product Engineer is required to adhere to and promote the Equal Opportunities Policy throughout the course of his/her employment. It is essential to the development of Wrightbus that the post holder can respond flexibly and positively to changes in requirements of this post. The Senior Product Engineer will be expected to work the hours necessary to meet the demands of the role. This job description is therefore a guide to the level and range of responsibilities the post holder will be expected to undertake initially, and the duties of this post may be altered from time to time to meet changing demands Note s: This job description will be subject to review in the light of changing circumstances and may include other duties and responsibilities as may be determined in consultation with the jobholder. It is not intended to be rigid and inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the individual works. 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