Manufacturing Engineer (Automotive)

About the job

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer (Automotive)
Location: Andover, Bristol, Midlands - UK, Hybrid- WFH options available and travel across UK
Compensation: Competitive plus Additional Benefits
Role Type: Full time
Role ID: SF 49848

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 Manufacturing Engineer (Automotive) within Babcock's Through Life Equipment Support business area in Andover, Bristol, or across the Midlands.

The role

As a Manufacturing Engineer (Automotive) you'll be responsible for investigating engineering problems, maintaining and developing processes, and advise junior engineers and operatives.

Day to day, you'll report to the Engineering team any opportunities that can be realised through the introduction of improved processes and techniques, lead engineering reviews in order to drive efficiencies into productivity and you'll review MRO1-4 production techniques to determine efficiencies with the process.

You'll also develop business cases to support any investment in process improvements and amend, implementation and record manufacturing engineering processes and procedures.

Day to day, you'll work within the Engineering team and provide engineering expertise across all sites and activities. Looking to improve the practise and process of operations to improve throughput and quality.

Main Duties:

• Report to the Engineering team any opportunities that can be realised through the introduction of improved processes and techniques
• Lead engineering reviews in order to drive efficiencies into material supply and quality
• Review MRO1-4 production techniques to determine efficiencies with the process
• Develop business cases to support any investment in process improvements
• Amend, implementation and record manufacturing engineering processes and procedures
• Manage all procedural and process changes through the agreed project management processes
• To ensure effective communication to all internal and external stakeholders

Essential experience of the Manufacturing Engineer (Automotive)

• Charted Engineer or close to be recognised as CEng
• Member of a professional Engineering Body
• Has a mechanical engineering background

Desirable experience of theManufacturing Engineer (Automotive)

• Awareness of Land military vehicle and equipment

• Awareness of Quality Management Systems
• Awareness in the use of Engineering drawing packages
• Competent PC user (MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint, ERP system)

We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. This role requires travel to all DSG sites.

Qualifications for the Manufacturing Engineer (Automotive),

• Engineering degree or equivalent
• Certified Engineer
• The successful candidate must be able to achieve Security Clearance level for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, 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

For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages

Babcock International

For overone- hundred and thirty 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.