Manufacturing Engineer

Southend, Essex
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Manufacturing Engineer

Hands-on manufacturing role focused on improving how products are built on the shop floor.

This position sits within a production engineering environment and is centred on continuous improvement, process development and supporting production teams day to day.

What you’ll be doing

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Leading and coordinating continuous improvement activity across the shop floor

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Improving layouts, workflows, routing and work instructions

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Supporting root cause, non-conformance and 8D investigations

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Managing and maintaining production process documentation

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Supporting design engineering with new processes and products

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Training and upskilling production staff on new processes and standards

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Supporting production builds, first-offs and tooling improvements

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Applying Lean and 5S tools to improve efficiency and consistency

The role is primarily site-based with occasional UK travel.

What this will suit

You’ll come from a manufacturing or production engineering background and be comfortable working directly with operators, supervisors and engineers.

Good fit if you:

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Have experience in process or production engineering

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Are confident driving CI activity on the shop floor

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Understand Lean, 5S and structured problem-solving

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Are practical, organised and comfortable training others

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Prefer improving real processes over desk-based theory

Job Info
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Job Title:
Manufacturing Engineer
Company:
CV-Library
Location:
Southend, Essex
Salary:
£30000 - £40000 Per annum
Posted:
Jan 26th 2026
Closes:
Feb 26th 2026
Sector:
Electronics
Contract:
Permanent
Hours:
Full Time
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