PROCESS ENGINEER

Functional area: Manufacturing
Country: UK - United Kingdom
City: Washington
Company name: Walker Filtration Ltd. UK
Date of posting: Jul 8, 2025

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: PROCESS ENGINEER
Purpose: The Process Engineer will aid the supporting function in all Production areas of process and quality, including goods in and despatch.
Scope: This role will report directly to the Process Engineering Manager. Whilst working closely with the Production Section Leaders and QA Engineering team.
Please note that this job description is intended only to act as a guide to the requirements of this role and is not an exhaustive list. As such all job descriptions are non-contractual and may be subject to review and amendment. The Company and management reserve the right to require you to undertake reasonable duties and tasks which are not detailed below.

PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Degree Educated in a relevant field or relevant experience with equivalent qualifications (HND / HNC)
• 3 - 5 years’ experience in an industrial manufacturing role
• Proven experience of lean manufacturing, continuous improvement and business improvement tools and techniques.
• Working knowledge of FMEA, 8D, Ishikawa diagrams, 5-why, and SPC.
• Hands-on Six Sigma experience, Green Belt qualification is highly desirable.
• Experience of working to stringent audited ISO quality standards.
• Experience of transforming manual processes to automated and from batch to single piece flow.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Health and Safety
• Ensure that health, safety and environmental legislative standards are adhered to across all areas of the production environment.
• Responsible for ensuring that all safety requirements are clearly stated in the relevant Production SOPs.
• Production Process Improvement
• Constant review and improvement to ensure effective and efficient process re-engineering, training, piece-part flow etc. Recommend, innovate and implement revised methods and processes to ensure labour costs are in line with the Business objectives.
• SOPs
• Take ownership and lead for the creation and management of all product and process SOP’s. Ensuring control and adherence within the manufacturing environment (Cross functional sign off). Promote a culture which ensures discipline of standards and expectations are followed and met at all times. Roll out training programmes for all new processes introduced.
• Ensure all manufacturing activities to be covered by an SOP and objective assessment located on SharePoint.
• CCA Participation
• Active role in the completion of CCA’s ensuring the Quality Engineering team are supported to close out complaints in a timely manner.
• Ensure continuous improvement in quantity of process related CCAs from the CCA log.
• New Product Introduction
• Take a lead role to ensure the team actively progress all NPI’s relative to their responsible product areas. Ensure project plan updates are effectively communicated. Preparation of production area(s) to ensure timely/effective product introductions. Validating requirements for jigs and fixtures as required and ensuring a detailed capital expenditure justification is produced.
• Ensuring that full buy off has been conducted with documented evidence of this. (FAT / SAT documents)
• Ensure that production metrics are recorded and submitted.
• NRFT Investigation
• Support quality department in the interrogation of NRFT KPI’s and implement actions to remedy for each of the key production areas. Actions should show a clear reduction in the NRFT figure month on month.
• Inter-departmental Interface
• To provide the primary process interface between allocated manufacturing departments and Technical and Sales.
• Ensure all NPI actions are implemented within agreed timeline from NPI meeting / log.
• Ensure all PNR and PCD actions are implemented within agreed timeline.