Production Engineering Manager

1 Days Old

Location: Cambridge (CB25)
Duration: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 per week 8am - 4pm (Monday to Friday)
Salary: Competitive
Job Reference: 36028

Our client, a high tech manufacturing business based a few miles north of Cambridge, is building a new Production Engineering function and is seeking an experienced manager to lead it. This is a hands on role driving the transfer of advanced products from RandD into efficient, scalable and high quality production.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and grow a multidisciplinary production engineering team.
- Own New Product Introduction (NPI) and ensure products are ready for assembly, test, calibration and scale-up.
- Develop production test strategies, tooling, automation and configuration control.
- Drive improvements in yield, cost, throughput and manufacturing robustness.
- Provide senior technical support for complex production issues.
- Define standards for documentation, work instructions and change control.
- Collaborate closely with RandD, Operations, Quality and suppliers.

Requirements:

- Degree or equivalent experience in an engineering discipline.
- Strong background in production/manufacturing engineering or NPI.
- Experience leading multi discipline engineering teams.
- Knowledge of electronics manufacture, mechanical processes and test automation.
- Comfortable working from prototype through to volume manufacturing.
- Familiar with DFM/DFA/DFT and ISO9001 environments.
- Hands on leader, pragmatic, detail focused and calm under pressure.

Desirable
- Experience with complex electromechanical products.
- CAD or hardware design familiarity.
- ERP/BOM systems knowledge.
- Experience with automated test systems or contract manufacturers.

Please contact us as soon as possible for more details or apply below
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Location:
Cambridge
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Electronics

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