Job Description
Ready to step off the tools and into engineering, without leaving the machines behind?
As a Production Engineer, you’ll own how precision shafts and gears are made, from the program and the fixture right through to new equipment and automation.
This is a role where your machining know-how shapes the whole machine shop, and where you’ll keep learning with a specialist engineering group behind you.
As a Production Engineer, you will benefit from:
- Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
- Flexible lifestyle perks, including half day on Friday
- 23 days holiday + bank holidays
- Recognition and rewards, including birthday leave
- Family-friendly policies with enhanced maternity
As a Production Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
- Developing and optimising CNC turning and milling processes, including sequencing, tool selection, cutting data and cycle time reduction
- Creating, proving out and controlling CNC programs using CAM and at the control
- Designing workholding, fixtures and gauging in SolidWorks, and cutting set-up times through SMED and standardised set-ups
- Leading root cause investigations into scrap, rework and non-conformances, working alongside Quality and Maintenance
- Specifying and justifying new CNC machines, tooling and automation, from ROI analysis through to commissioning
- Training and coaching setters and operators on new processes, programs and standards
As a Production Engineer, your experience will include:
- A strong practical background in a CNC machining environment, ideally high-mix, low-to-medium volume manufacturing
- Hands-on CNC turning and/or milling, including setting, programming and proving out new parts
- Sound knowledge of cutting tools, cutting data and workholding, plus confident reading of drawings including GD&T
- An HNC, HND or degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Production Engineering, or a completed engineering apprenticeship with equivalent experience
- Working knowledge of 3D CAD, ideally SolidWorks
- Desirable: Edgecam, Fanuc controls, gear manufacture or precision shaft machining, and Lean / Six Sigma Green Belt
If you’re ready to take the expertise you’ve built at the machine and put it to work improving how an entire precision engineering machine shop runs, this Production Engineer role is your next step. Apply today with an up-to-date CV or call Josh Hill at Rubicon for more information.
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