Production Engineer

Elland, England, United Kingdom

About A-SAFE and the role:

The A-SAFE Group is a leading global workplace safety solutions provider. Since 1984, the business has been pioneering state-of-the-art solutions that safeguard people and assets across a variety of sectors, all around the world.

Innovation has been a watchword for A-SAFE since the company’s very beginning, with the business being the inventor and original manufacturer of the world’s first industrial strength polymer barrier safety system. The business continues to pioneer game-changing workplace safety technology to this day, supplying warehouses, factories, airports, car parks and other industrial workplaces worldwide.

A truly global business, the A-SAFE Group is headquartered in the UK and has 17 international subsidiaries, including Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Belgium, Spain, USA, UAE, Japan and Canada, as well as a host of trusted global partners, meaning the business is represented in more than 65 countries worldwide.

The A-SAFE Group operates state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the UK and maintains global distribution networks and facilities, allowing the business to provide innovative solutions to the world’s largest and best-known brands including Nestlé, Coca-Cola, BMW, 3M, Heathrow Airport, Unilever, Amazon, and Jaguar Land Rover.

How You Can Help Us:

Ensuring health and Safety procedures are followed at all times.

Ensure compliance with all safety and environmental requirements. Develop ideas to improve the safety and environmental integrity of the process.

Develop and apply systems for ongoing assessment and improvement of current and new products.

To aid in the development of Production Systems using lean manufacturing philosophy.

Designing new systems and processes for the introduction of new products or for the improvement of existing ones.

Development of processes using risk evaluation and analysis such as PFMEA (Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis) that ensures continuous improvement and high performance.

To generate and maintain Process Plans for each new process using current cycle times, to determine the machinery and labour requirements.

To generate the Capex from the Process Plans and keep this updated with all the purchases/costs for the process, ensuring that cost and delivery targets are met.

To ensure that the set quality, capability and performance criteria as outlined by the company is maintained through continuous development of the process.

To source machine suppliers and develop detailed machine specifications to ensure good quality products can be manufactured at all times.

To update and issue the relevant documentation for new and existing processes to ensure the process is running to spec.

To give ongoing support to Production through any issues with the process by investigating and modifying/improving where appropriate.

To generate and maintain CAD drawings for new and existing machinery.

To create and continuously review the machine specifications developed from the PFMEA/ control plans.

To provide KPI’s where necessary / asked in line with role and responsibilities.

Contribute to new projects and new products introduction to ensure effective introduction.

Where necessary help the introduction of new product systems to ensure effective introduction.

Provide engineering support for the assigned process and production on daily basis.

Identify and troubleshoot process issues focused on quality and efficiency improvements.

Serve as the technical contact and expert for the process. Become an expert in the equipment, process, and products of the area.

Act as principal investigator investigating process problems, developing solutions and preparing related recommendations and reports.

Developing new manufacturing processes, process specifications, and qualification documents compliant with quality-system practices

Qualify new equipment and processes through written plans, statistically-based conclusions, and multifunctional review of documents

Interacting extensively with teams in a variety of disciplines, quality assurance, maintenance, manufacturing, sales and new-product development.

Supporting/training of the operations team on new equipment

To fulfill and reasonable request.

What We Would Like You to Bring to Our Team:

Positive mental attitude with can do approach.

Strong leadership qualities.

Strong customer focus.

Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels and articulate and justify a business case.

Ability to present information clearly and confidently to both individuals and groups.

Well organized with the ability to set standards for self and others.

Motivate self and others.

Team player.

Flexible and adaptable in approach with the ability to learn quickly.

Good organizational skills.

Methodical and able to co-ordinate work to meet time scales and budgets.

Meticulous with an eye for detail yet able to see the broader picture.

Able to work on own initiative.

Active problem solver who owns problems and sees them as their challenge until an effective solution is found.

Our values are at the core of everything we do:

We are Pioneers

We are in it Together

We do the Right Thing

This is a great opportunity to join at a time of rapid growth. We have huge global demand for our products due to our leading-edge safety innovation, with subsidiaries in seventeen countries. We offer a fast-paced, energetic, and creative environment, working with the latest technologies.

We are continually investing in our people and offer bespoke training, professional study support and career opportunities for all – whether that’s helping you fulfil your potential in your current role or to help you aim even higher, we’ll work with you to make sure it happens. To help us maintain this ethos, our ‘Grow our own’ committed obligation ensures at least 50% of vacancies are filled through internal development and promotion, which can be seen from the success stories on our careers website.

Other group benefits include 33 days annual leave, pension scheme, option to buy holidays scheme, Flex weekend scheme, Cycle to Work scheme, on site restaraunt and free secure parking.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE. We do not accept speculative agency CVs. Any CV received by us will be treated as a gift and not eligible for an agency fee.