Lead Manufacturing Engineer

Overview

In this role you lead the production engineering efforts to create and refine manufacturing processes, supporting on-time delivery and cross-functional collaboration. You drive process improvements, mentor the team, and ensure design-for-manufacturing alignment with quality and safety standards. You will engage with design and sub-contract teams to optimize machining and tooling, leveraging CAD/CAM capabilities and governing CAPEX initiatives. This position offers impact across a global industrial context and the opportunity to shape manufacturing excellence.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement within the production engineering team
• Supervise and mentor junior engineers
• Collaborate with Design Engineering on DFM and process planning
• Provide production support and resolve manufacturing issues
• Support Sub-Contract team with technical liaison
• Ensure compliance with health and safety policies
• Maintain quality and implement processes per company standards
• Identify and manage CAPEX opportunities, oversee commissioning and FAT
• Produce and maintain BoM and routings, exploit ERP/MRP capabilities
• Read and interpret engineering drawings and tolerance requirements
• Design work holding fixtures and apply modern machining methods
• Operate within tight deadlines and flexible work hours as needed

Key requirements

• Experience in a busy production office environment
• Background with super alloys, castings and composites
• Machinist apprenticeship background or equivalent
• Ability to read engineering drawings and tolerances
• Strong tooling knowledge and modern machining methods
• Fixture/work holding design experience
• Expertise in CAD (Solid Edge or similar)
• Understanding of CNC code and offline programming (advantage)
• CAPEX identification, proposal creation, commissioning and FAT oversight
• Microsoft literacy; SAP/ERP/MRP experience an advantage
• BoM and routings creation
• Health and safety awareness
• 10+ years of engineering experience in manufacturing
• Six Sigma/CI experience

• Strong problem-solving abilities
• Good communication skills
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams
• CAD (Solid Edge or similar)
• CAD/CAM tooling and CNC programming knowledge
• Fixtures and jigs design

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