Manufacturing engineer (M/F/D)

Overview

In this role you will drive operational excellence at TE’s Swindon site by reducing lead times, cutting costs and boosting productivity through Lean practices. You will partner with Operations, Engineering, Planning, Finance and Production to identify opportunities, implement improvements and deliver measurable benefits. You will lead value stream improvements, analyse performance, and ensure safe, repeatable production. This role offers hands-on shop-floor engagement and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day engineering support to ensure process stability, quality and efficiency
• Develop and maintain robust manufacturing processes and controls for safe, repeatable production
• Collaborate with Production, Quality, Planning and technical teams to meet operational objectives
• Measure throughput, cycle times and changeover performance against standards
• Lead value stream transformation projects using Lean methodologies
• Create current and future state value stream maps to identify efficiency gains and waste reduction
• Conduct time and motion studies, balance charts, workflow analysis and simulations to drive improvement
• Analyse key metrics (OEE, Labour Efficiency, Schedule Adherence, Throughput) and report findings
• Support Lean principles, SOP development and standardisation
• Assist capacity planning and data-driven resource optimisation

Key requirements

• Experience in an engineering role with knowledge of manufacturing equipment and production environments
• Practical application of Lean manufacturing tools and methodologies
• Proficiency in VSM, Time and Motion Studies, OEE, Takt Time and Process Flow Analysis
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret manufacturing data
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across levels
• Experience in fast-paced production environments
• HNC, HND or Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience with SAP and MRP systems
• Lean Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or higher desirable)
• Analytical and data-driven mindset
• Comfortable challenging existing processes with attention to detail
• Results-focused with a continuous improvement mindset
• Strong team player with influencing skills
• Adaptable to office and manufacturing environments with shop-floor engagement

• Excellent communication
• Stakeholder management
• Problem-solving
• Lean Manufacturing
• Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
• Time and Motion Studies

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