Process, Product and Applications Improvements Engineer

Plymouth Permanent

Client Authorisation Required

  • Newly Created Position
  • Critical Role For Future Success

About Our Client

AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices with annualised sales of more than $3.5 billion. The Company has approximately 14,000 employees at over 120 manufacturing plants. Supporting those operations are more than 80 sales and service locations in the United States and in 30 other countries. The company is a New York Stock Exchange company (symbol: AME) and has been listed since 1930.

AMETEK's Corporate Growth Plan is founded on four key strategies: Operational Excellence, Strategic Acquisitions & Alliances, Global & Market Expansion, and New Products. Its objectives are double-digit annual percentage growth in earnings per share and a superior return on total capital.

AMETEK consists of two operating groups:
* Electronic Instruments - a leading manufacturer of advanced monitoring, testing, calibrating, and display instruments for the process, aerospace, power and industrial markets worldwide.
* Electromechanical - a differentiated supplier of electrical interconnects technical motors and systems, and electric motors for floor care and other speciality applications.

Fine Tubes Limited of Plymouth, UK and Superior Tube Co. of PA, USA are precision tube manufacturers in the Electromechanical Group, and in the Speciality Metal Products division.

Fine Tubes Limited was established in 1943.

This role is based in Plymouth. We manufacture high quality precision metal tubes for demanding engineering applications in Aerospace, Oil and Gas, Nuclear and Power, Chemical Process, Medical and High Purity and High-Performance industries

Job Description

Aerospace is the key growth market for the Business and this role is critical to the future success of the Business.

This role is to interface directly with Customers (independently or together with the Sales team), Operations, Planning, QA and Technical at an in depth technical level. You will be tasked with improving shop floor aerospace manufacturing activities & product quality with a focus on key client applications in various grades of Titanium, 21-6-9 and other Stainless Steel tube applications.

The successful candidate will need to have an exceptional understanding of our manufacturing process and the customer's process and applications. You will then make the required changes to production routes and processes and tube manufacturing methods to ensure that we meet the customers and internal specifications.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Delivering improvements: reducing losses, improving yields, reducing costs, improving processes and compliance.
  • Analysing manufacturing difficulties, product yields & costs.
  • Reviewing and modifying existing processes in a controlled and methodical manner, using improvement tools and practices to ensure any changes are effective and sustainable.
  • Working as part of a cross-functional team to ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction.
  • Achieve and maintain the highest levels of product quality

The key deliverables within this role will be reliable and permanent solutions that improve process control, product yields and reduce cost through a robust analytical process which conform to all internal and external compliance requirements.

The Successful Applicant

You will need to be degree educated within an Engineering or Science related discipline or qualified by experience.

The successful candidate will need a metallurgical background ideally gained within the Aerospace or similar manufacturing or engineering environment with a proven background of undertaking client facing projects.

You will need a thorough understanding of technical specifications and compliance requirements as well as a good working knowledge of Thermo-Mechanical properties.

To succeed in this role you will need an analytical mind and be capable of solving complex manufacturing challenges including route cause analysis investigations, with a structured approach to tasks and project management.

Six Sigma Blackbelt or similar qualification would an advantage.

What's on Offer

This is an excellent opportunity to join a global manufacturing business who are heavily investing in their Aerospace division with this newly created role. You will become not only the Aerospace technical expert within their continuous improvements team but also for their key clients.

Contact
David Hewlett
Quote job ref
13927030
Phone number
+44 117 906 5154

Job summary

Job function
Engineering & Manufacturing
Subsector
Six Sigma, Lean, Process improvement
Sector
Industrial / Manufacturing
Location
Plymouth
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
David Hewlett
Consultant phone
+44 117 906 5154
Job reference
13927030