Senior Production and Continuous Improvement Engineer

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Senior Production and Continuous Improvement Engineer join our growing friendly team at Niftylift!

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 Senior Production and Continuous Improvement Engineer you will work within the Production Engineering Team to support the manufacture of the company's existing and new product range through generating effective engineering information/systems/manufacturing processes and facilities in accordance with Health and Safety legislation. Also to implement a successful Lean Manufacturing culture, focusing on continual improvement and the elimination/reduction of all wastes by educating the business and removing non value-added waste from the business processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the production engineering team on project based improvements.
• Manage production engineering day to day activities in terms of applying standards to business and shopfloor processes.
• Utilisation of LEAN tools (Value Stream Mapping) to identify Non-Value Added activities within the process to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Responsible for introduction of new parts by working with withing the engineering change system.
• Administration of controlled build and maintaining the accuracy of the companies bills of materials and part locations. Maintain and develop the build process documentation/instructions used in all areas of production.
• Through liaison with production personnel, review, control and implement effective and efficient improvements to engineering specifications, fixtures/tooling, build operations and logistics organisation.
• Provide support to quality assurance/control activities with reference to supplier, customer, and internal quality/engineering issues. Liaison and review with suppliers to resolve engineering queries and manufacturing/engineering cost down improvements. Responsible for hands on analysis, problem solving and development of all production processes, methods and engineering specifications. Maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of all operations and engineering specifications.
• Development of cellular manufacturing/flow line/single piece flow principles through each of the product/supply areas, including value stream mapping, balancing, simplification, tooling, fixtures, and configuration/ergonomics of workstations.
• People / culture development and training in alignment with new methods / practices being introduced. Encourage and facilitate improvements promoted from the employee teams using Total Quality Management techniques.
• 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.
• Be able to conduct timing analysis of current process and determine value and non-value-added activities.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or 5 years' experience
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Lean/Six Sigma in the manufacturing field.
• Demonstrated engineering/manufacturing experience.
• Excellent analytical skills combined with good negotiation and conflict management skills.
• Project management experience
• Management of people

Characteristics

• Adaptable to accept new 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 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 (if available)
• 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!