What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Engineer position at Morgan Advanced Materials?
Overview
At Morgan Advanced Materials, our rich history and dedication to innovation define who we are. Since our establishment in the UK in 1856, we have expanded globally, now operating across 70 sites in 18 countries. Our goal is to create a more sustainable world and enhance quality of life. We actively pursue this purpose through the development and production of advanced materials.
Within our business unit, we specialise in innovating cutting-edge carbon, graphite, and carbide products that deliver outstanding performance. We use our expertise to tackle complex challenges across many diverse industries to provide effective solutions for our valued customers.
Our products are shaping a better future; from enabling electric cars to charge faster and drive longer distances to maximising the operational efficiency of wind turbines. We are proud to help generate power for billions of people, deliver water to drought-stricken regions, improve the efficiency of industrial pumps, and protect lives both on the land and in the air.
Key Figures: Revenue £1,114.7m (2023), ~8,500 employees, manufacturing in 20 countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK. Listed on London Stock Exchange; Member of the FTSE 250 Index.
Responsibilities
Objective:Its purpose is the continuous improvement of production processes in the plant, by redesigning processes, implementing technology, innovating solutions in tooling, safety guards, ergonomics, software, etc., while ensuring safe working conditions for operators at each station and promoting improvements in efficiency, time reduction, energy savings, etc., in order to obtain the maximum benefit from the installed capacity to produce.
Essential Responsabilities: The essential functions and responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to the following:- Responsible for designing and improving machine guards and safety devices to maintain a safe working environment for the operator.- Responsible for the analysis and continuous improvement of operating procedures including risk identification forms such as: Preflight Check List, Lock out / Tag out board, among others, in order to ensure that risks associated with workstations are identified and a means exists to reduce or eliminate the risk.- Participates in multidisciplinary teams to perform risk analysis of machines and processes; analyse Safety, Quality or Maintenance deviations; defines mitigation actions, documents such actions and informs the parties involved about the defined changes and updates.
- It is responsible for systematically reviewing and improving working methods and documenting improvements to Standard Operating Procedures, informing stakeholders and updating documents in the QMS, in order to drive efficiency and continuous improvement in production operations.- Responsible for defining, designing and keeping up to date the appropriate measuring instruments and methods used within the production processes, documenting changes to the Standard Operating Procedure and updating the procedures in the QMS.- Responsible for designing production tooling, assembly fixtures, pokayokes, gages, etc., in order to contribute to keeping processes up to date with the technology available in the market.- He is responsible for designing and continuously improving the workstations of the production lines, keeping the focus on Safety, Quality, Ergonomics and Efficiency.
- Actively participates in new projects: layouts, commissioning of new equipment and training of personnel in the operation of the machines, devices, tools and tooling involved in the process.
Qualifications
Technical competences:
- Bachelor's degree level, graduate.
- Minimum 3 years' experience in a similar position
- AutoCAD 2D / Solidworks
- Intermediate-advanced English
- Continuous improvement and lean manufacturing tools
- Time and motion recording
- Drawing interpretation
- Device development
- Development of procedures
Morgan Advanced Materials is an EEO/AA/M/W/D/V Employer Ind-1
