Production Engineer

at  Axis Electronics

It’s exciting times at Axis Electronics, as part of the international Cicor Group, we have ambitious growth plans over the next 5 years, recently acquiring 3 new sites in the UK which expands our opportunity for growth and your opportunity to develop your career with a major player in the UK EMS contract manufacturing.
As you’d expect from a market leading contract manufacturer, we have an impressive list of prestige customers, leading the way with cutting edge technology in safety critical products predominately within the Aerospace & Defence sector and it’s our mission to provide them with high technology, high reliability Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS). This role will support our mission to add value to our customers’ business every day.

JOB PURPOSE:

To complete all required engineering tasks to enable the production of our customers’ products. Ensure correct assembly documentation is generated on time, to agreed production / kitting schedules. Ensure that product follows the best process flow for manufacturing and that all tooling is purchased on time from approved suppliers.

MAIN DUTIES:

• Using customer supplied information, create all required documentation so that product may be manufactured to customer, Axis and industry standards
• Ensure that all tooling is available for manufacturing 100% on time to kitting / manufacturing schedule
• Maintain a good understanding of each manufacturing process and customer requirements
• Generate and manage Bill of Materials (BoM) 24 hours from request
• Raise and maintain customer query logs, manage updates and historic data, keep ongoing issues highlighted
• Provide line support to resolve manufacturing issues
• Review and implement improvements ‘build reported’ by manufacturing to assembly instructions and help identify solutions to eliminate waste and improve quality output levels
• Generation of instructions for any mid-build changes
• Working with manufacturing on NPI product to ensure the best possible process’ are used
• Being a key part in Axis’ continual improvement activities
• Ensure the work area is kept clean, tidy, presentable and in line with our 5S programme