Principal Manufacturing Engineer – Industrial Planning & Capability

Job Description

An exciting new opportunity has become available within the Industrial Planning & Capability (IPC) area for a Principal Manufacturing Engineer to join the team. This position will be responsible to provide the Manufacturing Engineering focus and skill set within the IPC Team, to represent the department at various forums, to engage with many key stakeholders across the business and to promote the department.

Salary: Circa £49,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 3-4 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking.
• Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.

The opportunity:

In this role you will support the continued growth of an essential team within Manufacturing Business Management and will enable an individual to grow their knowledge across all areas of manufacturing whilst operating at a strategic level within the organisation. The function of IPC is to review the future demand to ensure that the appropriate industrial planning and investments are completed so that MBDA can deliver against its commitments and to also develop IPC as a functional capability with effective tools and processes.

You will lead the generation of IPC assessments that support manufacturing bids as well as scenario assessments. You will also work on the development of manufacturing capacity modelling across all business units and sites. The role will expand to support activities such as value stream mapping across the UK manufacturing systems, defining the process and governance around capacity modelling, supporting new business bids and future demand assessments.

• Develop manufacturing systems and processes in response to the defined Manufacturing Architecture and the Manufacturing, Inspection and Test Plan.
• Creation and approval of manufacturing and test instruction documentation.
• Process FMEA and process capability proving.
• Manage and report against own work programmes, including analysis of risk, to ensure work is delivered against accountabilities.
• Lead and support Continuous Improvement & Lean Manufacturing initiatives (e.g., Value Stream Mapping & Line Balancing) to ensure the area of responsibility is continually developing to improve efficiency.
• Creation and maintenance of manufacturing system capacity models
• Support the Industrial Planning & Capability Manager and the Manufacturing Engineering Managers during the preparation and proving of the Production System for IVM (Initial Validation of Manufacture) and VMS (Validated Manufacturing System) approval.
• Risk identification and aversion strategies associated with technical definition and manufacturing methodologies.
• Development, maintain and control technical interfaces to customers, suppliers and collaborators to ensure effective and swift resolution of technical issues.
• Effective Non-Conformance management and corrective action.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Formal technical Engineering/Craft Apprenticeship to NVQ Level 3 and Formal further education certificate to HNC or equivalent in a relevant subject

OR

• Degree in relevant Engineering subject

• Able to work with minimum supervision:
• Experience in engineering leadership / management.
• Experience in CI & Lean Manufacturing activities and tools
• Good Planning and Organising skills to ensure multiple tasks are prioritised and monitored to deliver set objectives.
• Negotiating and influencing skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.

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