Associate Production Engineer

Background

The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations.

At Motion Applied, we’re accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future. Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance.

We’re at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including automotive transportation and motor sport. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

We want to help to reduce the carbon footprint and become more sustainable.

Our focus is on electrification and telemetry, control and analytics.

To deliver efficient lightweight electric powertrain and vehicle development; motor sport solutions that make series more sustainable and efficient; reliable connectivity solutions for transportation and insightful analytics and monitoring of transport fleets.

By applying our expertise, we deliver real benefits and pioneer a better future.

The Production Engineer is positioned between production and the business with a focus on two main areas:

• Support the manufacturing and production teams by resolving challenges quickly and efficiently to ensure that the flow of product delivery is maintained. To look to improve our products and capabilities by developing processes, consulting engineering and finding new ways to improve our capabilities.
• Support New Product Integration (NPI) into the business. You will represent production throughout the lifecycle of new products, supporting all areas of the business such as engineering, program management and quality to help best achieve a successful and efficient product delivery from concept into production.

Production Engineering are the first-line support for manufacturing and production teams, resolving technical and process-related issues swiftly to maintain uninterrupted product flow.

• Regularly check in with build teams to understand their needs and offer support.
• Help track and address Improvement Logs raised by the production team, supporting changes to design, tooling, or drawings under supervision.
• Support the correction of non-conformances related to tooling, documentation, or product design, with guidance from senior staff.
• Participate in 8D investigations with the Production and Quality teams, learning problem solving techniques.

Identify opportunities to enhance product quality, manufacturing efficiency, and operational capabilities through process development, engineering consultation, and innovation.

• Identify and suggest opportunities to improve product quality, manufacturing efficiency, and operational capabilities, sharing ideas with senior engineers.
• Assist in developing equipment and tooling to improve production efficiencies and quality, under direction.

Represent production throughout the lifecycle of new products, ensuring smooth integration from concept to full-scale manufacturing.

• Support the integration of new products into production by assisting with tasks throughout the product lifecycle, under the guidance of experienced team members.
• Help coordinate DFM (Design for Manufacture), DFA (Design for Assembly), and DFT (Design for Test) activities as directed.
• Assist with PFMEA (Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis) and help translate programme delivery requirements into operational plans.
• Support the build of prototype units and help identify resource or equipment constraints, escalating issues as needed.
• Provide feedback into the programme for alignment, as appropriate for your experience level.
• Help manage test and validation activities for design changes, ensuring requirements are met with oversight.

Work closely with engineering, programme management, and quality teams to align production needs with design intent and delivery goals.

• Work closely with engineering, programme management, and quality teams to support production needs and learn about aligning design intent with delivery goals.
• Communicate clearly with colleagues and stakeholders, seeking…