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Located in Titchfield, Hampshire, Eaton's Aerospace business stands as a global leader in aerospace fuel systems. We pride ourselves as a premier supplier of fully integrated fuel systems for fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. The Titchfield facility boasts extensive fuel and air system test facilities, facilitating comprehensive testing across a range of conditions with various fuel types.
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We are seeking a Lead Manufacturing Engineer who will ber esponsible for overall supervision of a Manufacturing Engineering Team, supporting all operations areas of the Titchfield site.
What you'll do:
- Responsibility for supporting the production areas in achieving production schedule, product quality, product cost, and employee safety goals.
- Coordinates with all functional and service groups to ensure customer requirements are met.
- Drives team performance to facilitate the production teams to achieve or exceed financial plans and strategic goals. Motivates personnel to create high performance culture.
- Manages the relevant manufacturing engineering team to ensure timely completion of issues to enable production to meet customer requirements
- Assesses performance indicators, and takes appropriate actions, to ensure schedule, cost, and quality goals are met
- Ensures required documentation and/or system transactions are executed to meet customer, manufacturing system, and financial reporting requirements
- Assures policies, procedures, and other documentation are followed to ensure consistent and compliant manufactured product
- Provides leadership and commitment in support of continuing improvements in quality, productivity and delivery performance
- Supports product design organization through new product introduction phase to ensure customer manufacturing delivery times are met
- Assures that Environmental, Health, and Safety issues are addressed considering local regulations, Eaton policy, and good corporate citizenship
- Evaluates operational performance of the team in order to facilitate performance management, merit promotions, job transfers, dismissals, commendations, etc.
- Specifies job assignments for manufacturing engineering personnel, and monitors performance, to achieve product delivery and cost requirements
- Leads and supports manufacturing improvement initiatives, participating on teams in order to drive best practices across manufacturing
- Be a mesh champion.
- Lead a discipline in Quality leading indicators
- Support NADCAP Audits
- Ensures the policies, procedures, and other documentation are up to date with respect to the Lab.
Qualifications:
- Degree in mechanical engineering
Skills:
- Strong understanding of Heat Treatments
- Knowledge of material testing
- Hands on approach
- Knowledge of materials planning systems (MRP/ERP) requirements and order generation process logic •
- Understanding of Supply Chain Management operational concepts surrounding production planning, scheduling, purchasing, inventory control, logistics, stockroom operations, and shipping/receiving
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Process Variation Reduction (Six Sigma) concepts and tool sets as they relate to materials management
- Thorough Understanding of manufacturing technologies and processes
- Ability to direct and lead cross-functional process improvement teams
- Multiple years of related professional and Supervisory/Managerial experience
What we offer:
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
- Great company benefits including onsite parking and a gym
- We make your aspirations matter - Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible
- We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term - not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University
- We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people's lives and the environment through power management technologies
- We make your wellbeing matter - We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it's about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen
The successful applicant will be in contact with US ITAR controlled technology, goods and information. As a condition of employment, employees with access to US ITAR controlled technology and goods may be required to undergo an additional screening process as part of the recruitment process.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.
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