Lead Manufacturing Process Engineer

Lead Manufacturing Process Engineer

BIW Manufacturing Engineering

Merseyside, UK with intersite & external travel (Uk + International)

This role is responsible for engineering and technical support to design, develop and implement manufacturing production processes to enable successful launch of new products, ensuring feasibility of all designs to suit manufacturing build requirements, Design for Assembly (DFA) and compliance with the Bill of Process/Bill of Design (BOP/BOD). This includes the creation of green egronomic processes, delivery of tools, jigs & fixtures, quality, data analysis and reporting of major issues, deployment of failure mode avoidance tools, support of cross-functional teams in the resolution of those issues on projects and the tracking of resolution through to completion. This ensures vehicle body assembly process development and deivery, joining technologies and body assembly equipment including tooling, automation and robotics working closely with MP&L, VME, MP&L, METC, OEM's and Plant to determine optimum solutions

Main customers

Body in White Manufacturing, Program Management, Product Engineering

Key Objectives

·       Deliver new BIW projects to plant against safety, quality, delivery cost, morale & environment targets.

·       Develop & Deliever Process cyclograms in line with Bill of Process & Bill of Design for BIW against PCDS gateways & Scorecard pillars.

·       Maximise equipment usage to achieve project Capital & Operational Investment targets

·       Develop & Deliver Process solutions to meet BMV & Hrs/car target – maximise operator efficiency by load window

·       Develop & Deliver Value for money solutions for all Engineering changes against CAPEX & OPEX targets.

·       Delivery of Facility Performance buy-off by driving 9 Panel process / 5F process to ensure facility delivers within its Simulated Targets (DES) for MTTR & MTBF ensuring adherence to Design Cycle time.  

·       Deliver green ergonomic status for BIW facilities.

·       Deliver Projects that are in line with Safety Scorecards & Health & Safety @ work act compliance

• Deliver Failure Mode Analysis (FMEA)