Senior Manufacturing Engineer

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Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow’s possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

A new and exciting vacancy for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join an established team at our Thales UK facility. An excellent opportunity to take lead within the Manufacturing Engineering Team in the implementation of Industry 4.0 (also known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, 4IR, I4).

The roles is based at our purpose built manufacturing facility in Crawley, is a full time position offered at 37 hours over 4 days (Mon – Thurs).

Our Opportunity

As Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you will contribute to the implementation, and development of Industry 4.0 (I4) activities. Working with the team to identify opportunities for short and long term for digital transformation. Be the link between industry and our in house I4 centre to manage I4 initiatives from concept into reality.

Utilising Thales UK’s industry leading ‘Connected Reconfigurable Factory’ (COREF), you will be able to develop and test technologies in a low-risk and real-world setting. This includes, developing the connected hardware and tools to enable the factory of the future. Including areas such as cobotics (robots designed to work alongside humans), smart tooling, intelligent asset tracking and machine connectivity to develop connected flexible manufacturing cells.

What the role has to offer:

• Digital transformation (including estimating budget/time for implementation)
• I4 POC Industry lead
• Lead cross functional teams
• Contribute to the development and implementation of technologies during technology transfer or offset operations
• Knowledge and experience of implementing lean principles in a production environment (Kaizen, Kanban, Pull Flow) - Able to link lean and digital manufacturing principles.
• Analysing and planning workflow, space requirements and equipment placement to maximise manufacturing efficiency
• Optimises manufacturing documentation, tools, workflows for manufacturing and inspection based on the information supplied by upstream Industrial architects.
• Contributes to the technological innovation to reduce costs and workflows, whilst guaranteeing the feasibility and reproducibility of the process.
  

About You

You will be an experienced Manufacturing Engineer, with a wealth of Industry 4.0 (I4) knowledge and practical experience of bringing digital to an industrial environment.

Attributes include:

• Confident and well-practiced in the development of standard WoW into a digital format
• Ability to digest data and translate for the wider team
• Confident in promoting change and negotiating the wider understanding using data
• Understanding of connected industrial concepts (e.g. Digital Twin, Haptic Cobotics, Augmented Human etc.)
• Industrial experience of implementing new technologies (including change management and impact analysis).
• The holder of the role is also expected to have the ability to communicate clearly and freely as well as to have the ability to produce high standard documentation for project and external use
  

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry.

We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the assigned recruiter.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

Benefits At Thales

• Work 4 days a week
• Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Life Cover
• Progression and Development Opportunities
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities.
  

In line with Thales’ Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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