Job Title: Production Engineer
Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline
Compensation: £39,879 - £46,471
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF52328
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Production Engineer at our Rosyth site.
The role
As Production Engineer you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary, responsible for providing technical production engineering support to manufacturing operations.
Day to day you’ll deliver solutions and support to Fabrication & Welding processes, covering material handling, material forming /fabrication, and welding ancillary process support. In addition, you will look at process improvement and innovation, and research and develop new technologies for manufacturing and shipbuilding processes.
- Determine and develop the necessary process designs and specifications for fabrication, pre-heating, NDE, set-up, of manufacturing processes
- Liaise with welding engineering services to analyse, plan, and implement solutions to create / provide efficient fabrication processes.
- Liaise with site Facilities on the design and implementation of factory layout projects considering Lean manufacturing tools and techniques.
- Develop and implement production performance metrics, to allow analysis for identifying continuous improvement opportunities.
- Lead Cross Functional improvement initiatives that will have positive impacts on safety, quality, cost, delivery, and morale.
- Facilitating workshops with teams to make significant improvements for the Business based around Value Stream Mapping.
- Delivery of Lean principles, tools, and behaviours across the organisation to help educate and influence the workforce to create a better environment for the company and themselves.
- Establish, maintain, and publish performance measures as appropriate that give feedback of progress, relating to Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery.
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and auditing to ensure effective & consistent implementation of application of successful techniques.
- Employ sound data management controls that provide transparency, traceability, auditability, and configuration control.
- Perform troubleshooting to determine problems across many trade discipline teams related to job execution.
- Carry out Data measurement and analysis to identify conflicts, issues, and opportunities for improvement.
- Comply with appropriate legislation including requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Experience of the Production Engineer:
- Knowledge and understanding of the production techniques
- Demonstrate the ability to identify and develop production engineering requirements and procedures for set-up, proving and implementing efficient production processes.
- Skilled in utilising Lean tools and techniques and developing a continuous Improvement culture
- Be able to gather, analyse and solve problems using recognised problem-solving techniques
- Experience of working in a heavy manufacturing environment with heavy handling requirements
- An enthusiasm and understanding of project management and coordination
The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.
Qualifications of the Production Engineer:
- Educated to degree or HNC level in engineering or a related subject or having equivalent practical experience
- A solid understanding of manufacturing and production processes as well as the engineering design lifecycle
- Practical understanding of continuous improvement tools and principles such as 5S, Standardised Work, Process Mapping, Problem Solving.
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock International
For over 130 years Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
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