Job Title: Manufacturing Methods - Production - Process Engineer

Location: Derby

Hours: Monday to Friday days 37hrs per week on site

Duration: 6 months plus contract

Rate: £neg

Purpose of the job

* Defines the manufacturing process and associated equipment for a new product, taking into account the industrial policy, existing standards and constraints of the project.

* responsibilities

* During specification and preliminary design phases:

* Gather Industrial requirements Engineering has to comply with, during product specification and design. Explain them to Engineering.

* Participate actively to the product design in co-engineering mode, using appropriate methodologies.

* Design the macro-process, based on standard SMP.

* Prepare introduction of new technologies, if need be, with associated process validation plan.

* Identify needs of specific manufacturing equipment.

* Estimate Method Time and perform a preliminary line balancing.

* Identify critical process steps where to perform detailed Process FMEA and full FAR / FAI.

* During detailed design phase and before Serial Go:

* Complete industrial documentation: industrial data sheets, IMFU (Industrial Maturity Follow-Up)

* Perform P-FMEA.

* Participate to validation of prototypes if any.

* Develop specifications of industrial means for serial production.

* Define workstation layouts, taking into account ergonomic and EHS rules and optimizing movements.

* Perform a complete and detailed line balancing.

* Validate product design and industrialization through FAR and FAI.

* After serial Go:

* Industrialize retrofit after engineering changes: documentation, workstation definition / update.

* Support Production to achieve manufacturing QCD targets.

Other activities:

Bring expertise to the industrial Costing Manager during tender phase

Participates to R&D programs as industrial representative.

Perform industrial REX on manufacturing processes. SYS Indus roadmap rating.

Technical education.

Desired Knowledge / Experience

* Manufacturing or Manufacturing Engineering background with 5 to 10 years' experience preferably in the railway industry.

* Technical experience of Process Engineering, writing manufacturing work instructions, line balancing, Lean Manufacturing.

* Experience in working with an ERP (such as SAP) for Bill of Materials, Routings, Configuration follow-up - Working knowledge in Quality, EHS standards and Ergonomics.

* Knowledge of CAD and PLM tools (CATIA, DELMIA…) - Familiar with IS common tools. -Process FMEA, QRQC.

PLEASE NOTE ALL APPLICANTS MUST BE ABLE TO PASS A DRUGS AND ALCOHOL TEST BEFORE BEING OFFERED A POSITION