Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Manufacturing Lead Engineer - Trim and Final - £41/hr (Inside IR35) – Halewood (Liverpool) with hybrid potential – 9 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Trim and Final Facilities are responsible for the development and introduction of new and modified facilities associated with new model introductions and model year changes. Ensure facility installations are delivered through strict adherence to Product Creation and Delivery System (PCDS) and Launch Quality Operating System (LQOS) Gateways deliverables, Health & Safety and Manufacturing Engineering Facility procurement procedures.

Key Responsibilities
- Project manage the planning and implementation of facility installations for new model introductions.
- Lead the creation of detailed facility timing plans in line with manufacturing launch strategies.
- Lead supplier selection and vendor management activities with purchasing.
- Provide feasibility statements for Product designs to suit manufacturing process & facility requirements.
- Create and maintain detailed cost trackers up to and beyond programme approval.
- Achieve Equipment Capability targets for all new & modified facilities, including Operating Efficiency Effeteness targets.
- Ensure adherence to client Reliability & Maintainability, 8D, Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF) and Preventative Maintenance (PM) principles.
- Allocating workload through setting and monitoring team objectives.
- Manage and resolve technical issues and escalate where appropriate.
- Embrace the Agile methodology acting as a Scrum Master.
- Represent Trim & Final Facilities at program meetings at all levels and present status.
- Provide departmental responses to PCDS & LQOS deliverables and Product Definition Letter's etc.
- Ensure the team support virtual build events raising and championing issues where appropriate.
Identify resource requirements in support of virtual and physical builds.
- Provide feasibility of product and process designs to suit manufacturing facility requirements.
- Ensure achievement of capability of all processes and equipment, including dimensional targets.
- Ensure application of lean manufacturing principals and Bill of Process (BOP) requirements.
- Drive quality planning and analysis for manufacturing.
- Balance workload and prioritize the team ensuring all key business objectives are met.
- Collaborative working with multiple teams: GME Technologies, Logistics, Digitals, Maintenance, - Production and Programme Management
- Support the development of the Engineers through on the job coaching, creators’ conversations.
- Co-ordinate and Lead Go Look See events.
- Liaising with downstream teams and Manufacturing plants to concur alignment.
- Manufacturing Engineering contribution within agile teams.
- Develop P6 plan to manage team and programme deliverables.
- Communicate programme deliverables to PD&D teams and manage progress reporting.
- Competitor benchmarking for facility and process strategies.
- Drive lean principles with all aspects of manufacturing operating process.

Skills, experience and qualifications required:
- Detailed understanding of NEBOSH and Construction Design Management (CDM) Regulations
- In depth project and budgetary management experience
- Proven track record of delivering facilities within an automotive manufacturing environment.
- Ability to set individual and team objectives and measure performance against them.
- Previous experience of managing multiple facility suppliers and concurrent projects.
- Experience of and involvement in product launches.
- Degree qualified in relevant engineering discipline (preferred).
- Knowledge of and involvement in product development including use of virtual toolsets.
- Candidate must have a record of proactive delivery and commitment to meeting deadlines.

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.