Supply Chain Validation Engineer
Location: Stevenage
Salary: £40,000 to £50,000 + Overtime, Bonus, Pension & Flexible working
Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to £2,500, Paid Overtime, Strong pension, 25 days annual leave with the option to accrue 15 additional days flexi leave, enhanced parental leave.
We’re working with an award-winning, world-leading, technical & scientific engineering organisation, with sites across Europe, that have an exciting opportunity for a Supply Chain Validation Engineer who will be responsible for validating the external supply chain to ensure the successful delivery of parts required to support development programmes in preparation for full-rate production.
Their order book stretches for many years, and they have healthy profits and a range of new projects in place. They’re stable with steady controlled growth, offer dynamic working, and fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career further.
The business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development as well as personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They really care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it.
Supply Chain Validation Engineer role:
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Handling a portfolio of suppliers on a day-to-day basis and the project Industrial Validation Plan
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Assess & validate the supply chain and suppliers’ capability to meet business requirements
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Undertake Industrial Validation activities such as Process FMEAs, Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) assessments, and Production Readiness Reviews in preparation for series production.
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Identify potential manufacturing & supply chain risks and put in place associated improvement and mitigation plans
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Handle & validate elements of manufacturing capability transfer from in-house to supplier.
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Collaborating and supporting a multi-functional team.
Supply Chain Validation Engineer skills and qualifications required:
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A Manufacturing engineering-biased professional with a solid understanding of manufacturing processes and techniques, with an appreciation for project delivery/project management.
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Experience of manufacturing or supplier quality in the Aerospace or Defence environments is desirable.
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Capable of supporting suppliers/customers to ensure that they develop robust manufacturing systems and control plans, to enable the capability to deliver on-quality, on-time and on-cost in series production.
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Ideally, the applicant will have New Product Introduction (NPI) and/or manufacturing capability transfer experience.
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Proficient in Industrial Validation tools such as Process FMEAs, Measurement System Analysis, Process Mapping, Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) assessments, and Production Readiness Reviews.
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Excellent problem-solving skills to develop and implement root cause analysis and improvement plans within the Supply Chain for manufacturing system deviations.
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Excellent communication skills, requiring close working with Design, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Quality organisations.
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