Lead Manufacturing Engineer

• Directly manages a team of Manufacturing Engineers across multiple disciplines, providing technical leadership with a strong machining focus
• Acts as the senior CNC authority within the Workshop, shaping capability, elevating machinist and ME skillsets, and driving consistency in machining processes, methods and best practices
• Drives improvements in Manufacturing Engineering processes
• Delivers to customer and project needs largely independently
• Leads new business opportunities for CNC related or machining heavy work
• Supports in executing the Manufacturing Engineering Strategy
• Leads capability acquisition projects from inception to completion
• Works with design teams to execute effective design for manufacture/inspection
• Develops and validates CNC and broader manufacturing/inspection processes
• Creates high quality manufacturing documentation
• Coordinates procurement of CNC tooling, fixturing, materials and gauges
• Owns and drives the resolution of manufacturing issues
• Leads continuous improvement of manufacturing processes
• Acts as the technical lead for manufacturing within project teams
• Attend and provide manufacturing engineering inputs to project meetings
• Communicate and escalate manufacturing/assembly issues to the project teams/clients
• Support the ongoing development of MTCs manufacturing engineering capability
• Enable innovative designs to be realised through providing manufacturing advice, process development and validation

• Deep CNC machining expertise in low volume, high variety, first off environments, including 5axis machining of complex geometries and tight tolerance work with experience of machining exotic & tough materials
• Competent in CAD/CAM – Siemens NX preferred
• Knowledge of tooling selection, chip load/engagement, tool life models, high-pressure coolant, heat management, dynamic tool pathing, and chatter mitigation
• Knowledge of fixturing & work holding design principles
• Knowledge of metrology & verification: Practical application of GD&T, in-process measurement
• Experience in process development / prove out
• Experience in cell / equipment knowledge: specifying and integrating CNC machining cells
• Knowledge of manufacturing risk & quality: Creating and using DFM/DFA inputs, PFMEA, control plans
• Leadership knowledge: Managing and upskilling MEs and machinists
• Customer & commercial awareness in a consultancy/project environment
• Hands on, pragmatic problem solver
• Technically authoritative yet approachable
• Self motivated and autonomous
• Ownership
• Calm under pressure
• Strong communicator
• High integrity in secure environments
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
• A high standard of report writing and presentation skills
• A desire to support colleagues development and transfer knowledge

If the applicant has no experience with NX, they must be willing to learn and have solid capability in another professional CAD/CAM package

• Excellent Pension Scheme
• Flexible Working