Senior Engineer

Your experience of composite engineering and ability to manage manufacturing projects, engineers and customers, will help you to co-ordinate projects through concept to delivery. As a Senior Engineer, you will Ensure the establishment of clear requirements for the project with the customer, check and approve the teams work and project manage component manufacture through factory and working with external suppliers as necessary.
 
You will have the opportunity to work for a leading manufacturer of large composite structures. Their clients include BAE, Rolls Royce, Airbus, Sunseeker, and Siemens. A corporate benefits package and transparent career development opportunities are on offer within this vibrant Engineering environment.
 
About the job:
 
Our client currently requires a Senior Engineer to work with their customers to manage the production of composite parts for industries including Defence, Aerospace, Simulation and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, using the latest technologies and techniques to manufacture high-quality and sustainable products. You will Manage a series of new and existing customers to provide a service supplying them quality composite parts, ensuring a sustainable level of profit for the company. Sometimes working as part of a wider team on larger projects or running customer projects directly the role is varied and requires someone of a practical nature.

• Co-ordination of projects through concept to delivery.
• Commercial responsibility & estimating.
• Account management of customers.
• Support both NPI and existing production programs, while working closely with the customer.
• Overseeing and mentoring junior members of the team.
• Responsible for checking and approving other engineer’s work.
• Come up with innovative manufacturing solutions for parts.
• Tool design when required.
• Responsible for the input into the MRP system (Progress +) all new items, maintenance and upkeep of BOM’s, loading sales orders and ensuring delivery notes are provided for your projects.
• Ensure the establishment of clear requirements for the project with the customer prior to the commencement of manufacture.
• Preparing Engineering Management plans, including estimates for schedule and resource requirements.
• Produce clear work instruction for manufacturing staff.
• Ensure materials are made available in a timely manner, either through direct procurement or delegating procurement activities.
• Modify existing layup books and sign off sheets as parts evolve or react to quality issues.
• Working with quality team to ensure best practices.
• Project manage component manufacture through factory and working with external suppliers as necessary.
• Co-ordination of part manufacture on the shop-floor with production supervisors.
• Assistance with operating and maintaining shop-floor equipment such as Autoclaves and ovens.
• Negotiation of variations to contract / job.
• Ensuring the accounts department are kept up to date with invoicing, WIP and assisting them with chasing overdue payments.
• Experience with Designing in Siemens NX or Solidworks highly beneficial

About you:
As a Senior Engineer your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• Degree level education in Engineering.
• Strong experience in a similar role.
• Experience with Composite and GRP materials and manufacturing.

Senior Engineer
Poole or Winfrith - Dorset
£42,000 £52,000
Permanent
 
Keywords: Project Engineer, Composite, Design, Requirements, Manufacture, Customer management, Account Management, Tool design, Estimates, Team management, Approval .

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time. 
   
This is a permanent position.