What To Expect

Reporting directly to the Operations Manager. They will be responsible for developing, improving, and optimising manufacturing processes to ensure efficient, safe, and cost-effective production. This role supports continuous improvement initiatives, quality enhancement, and the successful introduction of new processes and equipment into production.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Identification, planning, implementation and documentation of new processes and equipment
• Driving and implementation of Continuous improvement culture for manufacturing facility / business
• Ensuring all processes and are maintained and kept to all current safety standards.
• Driving improvements to manual and/or machine based processes
• Developing and maintaining measures of equipment and process performance
• Supporting training in new processes and equipment
• Project managing new equipment or new process implementation
• Produce, monitor and justify CAPEX requests
• Design of small to medium items of equipment, production aids and tools
• Identifying & Implementing improvements to plant, equipment and buildings to relevant standards and requirements
• Identification, selection and development of new suppliers/ contractors for associated activities

Job Profile

• Develops broad knowledge and skills in a specific practice area.
• Works on small projects or portions of larger projects
• Performs moderate design tasks.
• Prepares portions of project documents.
• Edits specifications.
• Performs research and investigations
• Assists in determining schedule and budget requirements.
• Evaluates, selects, and applies standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to perform a task or sequence of tasks for conventional projects with few complex features.
• Possesses effective oral and written communication skills.
• Assists with client, customer, or official contacts and communication pertaining to specific assignments or meetings.
• Collaboratively uses judgment to determine adaptations in methods for nonroutine aspects of assignments.

Keys to Success

• Applies general knowledge of business developed through education or past experience

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None
• Assigns tasks to and coordinates work with entry-level engineers, technicians, or administrative staff.
• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team; works within guidelines and policies

Requirements and Preferred Skills

• 2-4 years of experience in a process engineering, manufacturing, or production engineering environment (ideally within continuous or high-volume manufacturing)
• Typically requires a college or university degree or equivalent work experience that provides exposure to fundamental theories, principles and concepts e.g. HNC in a relevant Engineering subject
• A greenbelt qualification in 6 Sigma, or equivalent Continuous improvement qualification

Travel

• As Required