Summary: The Production / Manufacturing Engineer role is a 6-month contract focused on enhancing manufacturing processes for aircraft production, particularly in metallic structures and components. The position requires hands-on experience and technical support to production teams, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. The engineer will also be responsible for programming CNC machines and managing Bills of Materials. This role is based onsite in Bembridge, Isle of Wight, with a full-time commitment of over 40 hours per week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain manufacturing processes for aircraft production, with a strong focus on metallic structures and components.
- Create and manage multi-level Bills of Materials (BoMs) for sub-assemblies, major assemblies, and final build stages.
- Provide manufacturing input to design activities, ensuring alignment with approved CAD and CNC data.
- Support make or buy decisions based on internal manufacturing capability.
- Deliver technical support to production teams and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Identify and implement improvements to tooling, jigs, fixtures, and assembly methods.
- Program 3-axis CNC machines, lathes, and routers using ALPHACAM.
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.
Key Skills:
- Engineering Apprenticeship or equivalent qualification.
- Minimum 5 years' experience in a manufacturing or production engineering environment.
- Strong hands-on experience working with metallic structures and components (e.g. aluminium alloys, steel, aerospace-grade metals).
- Experience within a highly regulated industry (aerospace preferred).
- Demonstrable experience in CNC programming, ideally using Alphacam, for metallic machining.
- Solid understanding of metallic manufacturing processes, including machining, fabrication, drilling, fastening, and assembly.
Salary (Rate): £35/hour
City: Bembridge
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Engineering
Production / Manufacturing Engineer
6-Month Contract (Full Time)
Rate: £35 per hour (Umbrella or Limited Company)
IR35: Outside IR35 (subject to review, potentially until April - new financial year)
Hours: 40+ hours per week
Location: Onsite - Bembridge, Isle of Wight
Travel Allowance: £10 per day contribution
Transport: Transportation provided to and from site from Ryde (Portsmouth to Ryde 7.15am ferry)
The role will focus on defining, maintaining, and improving manufacturing processes across the full aircraft build lifecycle, with a strong emphasis on metallic structures and components, from sub-assemblies through to final completion.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain manufacturing processes for aircraft production, with a strong focus on metallic structures and components.
- Create and manage multi-level Bills of Materials (BoMs) for sub-assemblies, major assemblies, and final build stages.
- Provide manufacturing input to design activities, ensuring alignment with approved CAD and CNC data.
- Support make or buy decisions based on internal manufacturing capability.
- Deliver technical support to production teams and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Identify and implement improvements to tooling, jigs, fixtures, and assembly methods.
- Program 3-axis CNC machines, lathes, and routers using ALPHACAM.
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Engineering Apprenticeship or equivalent qualification.
- Minimum 5 years' experience in a manufacturing or production engineering environment.
- Strong hands-on experience working with metallic structures and components (e.g. aluminium alloys, steel, aerospace-grade metals).
- Experience within a highly regulated industry (aerospace preferred).
- Demonstrable experience in CNC programming, ideally using Alphacam, for metallic machining.
- Solid understanding of metallic manufacturing processes, including machining, fabrication, drilling, fastening, and assembly.
