Industrial Manufacturing Engineer

Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for an Industrial Manufacturing Engineer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position with a proposed end date of 31st March 2027.

Umbrella Pay Rate: £27.03 per hour.

As an industrial engineer you will have responsibility of presenting the statistical data required to plan, monitor & by analysis challenge, the labour requirements across the JLR Production facilities. The scope of delivery is during the strategy phase of vehicle development, ensuring that the programmes deliver to their timings and HPC targets and then continue to deliver efficiency targets. This is achieved through having a comprehensive understanding of the Production operating parameters, the deployment of the Industrial engineering QOS, benchmarking activities, Design for Assembly (DFA) analysis in the virtual world, allocation planning, method study & synthetic time deployment.

To determine the most effective way of optimizing both the people and facilities and deliver quality products.
Working on new vehicle and model year programmes to ensure the achievement of programme manpower targets, through the deployment of industrial engineering / lean techniques.
Hours per car reporting with manning implications.
Best practice productivity ideas incorporated into programme.
Assignment allocation in conjunction with production plant.
Managing projects / processes, working independently with limited supervision.
Project mange and execute the development of defined ways of working and good practice for industrial engineering in vehicle developments strategy phase.
Skills Required:

Experience of assembly operations within manufacturing.
Understanding of lean manufacturing and Design for Assembly principles.
Industrial Engineering experience with associated tools and techniques.
Previous experience of GSPAS and APT or equivalent tools process authoring / process allocation tools an advantage.
Ability to work independently and proactively, taking full ownership and responsibility for own work; fully invested in achieving a successful result.
Data analysis and presentation skills.
Previous experience in delivering and project managing a step change in ways of working an advantage.
Education Required:

Manufacturing / Industrial engineering related degree or equivalent relevant industry experience in the automotive industry