Manufacturing Technician - 12 month FTC

Manufacturing Engineering Technician (Fixed-Term Contract)

This role will expose you to a large-scale, high-tech manufacturing environment where you'll work alongside experienced senior engineers, learning from their expertise while developing your own skills quickly. You'll gain valuable hands-on experience across manufacturing, maintenance and production support, making this an excellent opportunity for someone looking to accelerate their engineering career in a fast-paced environment.

Working as part of the Operational Excellence team, you'll play a hands-on role supporting production operations and ensuring products are built and tested to the highest quality standards. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys fault finding, repairing equipment, solving manufacturing issues and working closely with production teams to keep operations running efficiently.

You'll be involved in equipment maintenance, troubleshooting production problems, supporting process improvements, maintaining manufacturing documentation and assisting with the introduction of new products into production. Working alongside Production, Engineering and R&D teams, you'll help identify root causes, implement practical solutions and contribute to continuous improvement across the manufacturing operation.

This role would suit someone with a practical engineering mindset who enjoys working in a high-volume manufacturing environment and is confident performing hands-on technical work under pressure. It's a great opportunity to learn from an experienced engineering team and continue developing your technical skills.

Requirements

Previous experience in a manufacturing, production, maintenance, engineering, service or repair environment.
A hands-on approach with strong practical fault-finding and problem-solving skills.
Experience repairing or maintaining manufacturing equipment is highly desirable.
Good documentation and record-keeping skills.
A mechanical or manufacturing background would be advantageous.
Basic understanding of Lean Manufacturing principles is beneficial, but extensive Lean experience is not essential