Lead Manufacturing Engineer

## Eaton South Molton Nestled in the heart of Devon, UK, the South Molton plant is home to a team of over 400 talented professionals, driving excellence in aerospace manufacturing. With a proud history dating back to 1973, this facility has grown into a powerhouse of precision engineering, delivering high-quality components to some of the world's most renowned aerospace brands. What makes South Molton unique? Our one-of-a-kind investment casting foundry, established in 1975, sets us apart from all other Eaton Aerospace plants. Today, our focus is on designing, manufacturing, and testing top-tier aerospace components, ensuring safety, reliability, and cutting-edge innovation. We proudly collaborate with industry giants like Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, and Augusta Westland, with our main customer being Eaton’s Titchfield facility in Hampshire, UK. If you're looking for a dynamic environment, world-class engineering, and the opportunity to shape the future of aerospace, South Molton is the place to be! ## What you’ll do: • This position is responsible for supporting plant leadership in achieving business and financial goals by developing and maintaining robust manufacturing processes and leading continuous improvement / cost out initiatives across the organisation. Additional responsibility includes executing the organisation’s strategic plan consistent with UK & European legislation, and local regulations, established industry standards, and customer requirements. • With the team develop and maintain robust, cost efficient manufacturing processes and product structures consistent with lean manufacturing practices. • Ensure root cause and failure analysis is performed as required. • Lead cost-out events and promote culture of continuous improvement. • Apply lean manufacturing techniques as means to eliminate waste and deliver products to customer’s expectations. • Implement methods and practices to reduce variation. • Develop team’s ability to understand source(s) of variation by applying Six Sigma Design and Development strategies. • Participates in concurrent engineering efforts and critical design reviews to minimise product development costs and maximise useful life of products. • Conducts Design For Manufacturing and Value Engineering initiatives as applicable. • Develops work breakdown structures as a tool to develop cost estimates. • Participate in new product development projects using ProLaunch as a tool to articulate deliverables and a vehicle to commit to schedules • Coordinate manufacturing liaison/s for products from inception through shipment to customer. • Develop and integrate new processes and methodologies as to provide competitive advantages for the business. • Recommends Capital Appropriation Requests (including payback and net present value analysis) for acquisition of equipment to support emerging and existing technologies. • Responsible for the training of associates as required, inline with APEX, OCA expectations etc. • Communicates vision of organisation via verbal communication and actions. • Coordinate with multiple functions to prepare consolidated plant, customer, and product status information and action plans. • Develop, implement, and audit complex process procedures/work instructions (in-house and within the Supplier Base), when required, to alleviate production/quality problems and to achieve overall business objectives. • Ensure robust plans are developed and monitored to ensure functional KPI’s are met ## Qualifications: • Relevant Engineering Degree, or equivalent qualification ## Skills: • Solid understanding of engineering design and product reliability concepts as to facilitate analysis of fluid dynamics, thermal dynamics, electronic circuits, etc • Detailed knowledge of lean manufacturing techniques – i.e. value stream mapping, one piece flow, etc. • Understanding of Six Sigma concepts and tools and where they relate to minimizing process / product variability...