Production Engineer

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£45,000 - £50,000 DOE ,Private Medical Insurance, 40 hours per week, Permanent contract, growing business.

A Production Engineer is needed for a leading automotive organisation operating within a specialist niche market, recognised as a top-performing brand in its sector. The business continues to expand across multiple UK locations while investing heavily in capability, systems, and people. This role is based at the UK Head Office near Marlow.

This hands-on Production Engineer position sits directly within production, supporting daily build activity, improving methods, and keeping assembly operations moving.

Key Responsibilities of the Production Engineer position

  • Act as escalation point for build faults, missing data, or unclear information
  • Implement rapid countermeasures to protect output, quality, and delivery
  • Develop and refine assembly methods, sequences, standards, and flow
  • Eliminate constraints using lean techniques including standard work, visual control, and balancing
  • Drive corrective actions through structured problem-solving tools
  • Maintain accuracy across BOMs, SOPs, and build documentation
  • Support defect resolution and prevent repeat occurrences
  • Prepare new variants for smooth transition from first build to repeat manufacture
  • Collaborate with operations, quality, engineering, stores, and supply partners

We would be keen to hear from people about the Production Engineer position that have:

  • Background within manufacturing, assembly, engineering
  • Strong production mindset with hands-on credibility
  • Confident interpreting drawings while managing options and variants
  • Practical experience delivering continuous improvement activity
  • Comfortable taking ownership through to resolution

What's on offer for the Production Engineer opportunity.

  • Clear accountability across production activity
  • High visibility within operational teams
  • Broad exposure covering support, improvement, and change readiness
  • £45k-£50k package with private medical cover
  • Opportunity to deliver measurable impact on-site

If you would this sounds of interest - hit apply or please feel free to contact Rodger Morley at E3 Recruitment


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Location:
Reading
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Manufacturing

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