Production Engineer - Mars Recruitment : Job Details

Production Engineer | Witney | £45,000 plus benefits:   A Production Engineer is urgently required by a leading manufacturer who has produced revolutionary technology within their marketplace. Due to this period sustained period of growth, they are looking for a Production Engineer to help gear their production team up for a site move, dealing with the design of the new production facility layout, the flow of production and the setting up of production cells.  The role: Once the production facility move has taken place, the Production Engineer will support the production carrying out ongoing continuous improvement activities, putting in work instructions and SOP’s. You will get involved in a new MRP implementation and who the bills of materials and routings feed into it. The Production Engineer will review efficiencies and eliminate waste within the manufacturing process to safely deliver high quality products/components to clearly defined standards.About you:This Production Engineer position will require someone with who is currently in a similar role, ideally within a mechanical based product range.  As a small manufacturing company, the staff who work for this business are proactive, enjoy working with others, accepting of challenging targets and are comfortable adapting to new tasks. The Production Engineer will need to be team orientated but still happy to work individually. Production Engineer’s applying for this role should have the following skills, experience and interests:

• A background in mechanical engineering discipline is required and the relevant practical experience within a manufacturing environment
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work in a fast-changing environment under pressure
• Skills, experience, and expertise in supporting new and existing production lines
• Adaptable to accept new changes in production engineering
• Ability to identify problems and resolve them quickly
• Results oriented and commercial awareness
• Strong communication skills to liaise with multiple departments including the engineering team.
• Ability to work with IT systems and possess a good level of PC literacy
• Experience with a MRP system is essential and experience with NAV or Factory Master is advantageous but not essential

  Our client offers a competitive salary of £45,000pa plus benefits, which includes a company contributory pension, death in service insurance, 25 days annual holiday plus public holidays.  If this exciting Production Engineer opportunity is of interest to you, please contact the MARS team by applying to this advert.  MARS Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of race, colour, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other protected status. Suitable candidates for the role will be contacted within 3 working days, unfortunately if you haven’t heard back in this time your application has been unsuccessful at this time.    MARS Recruitment is a specialist Engineering & IT recruiter working in partnership with companies across the UK and offers services of both an Employment Business (for Temporary/Contract roles) and an Employment Agency (for Permanent roles).