Manufacturing Engineer – Tooling
Assystem
Derby, United Kingdom
•3 hours ago
•No application
About
- Company Description
- Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.
- Every day, our 6,500 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy.
- We are a collective committed to the actors who are making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.
- Drawing on more than 55 years' experience in highly regulated sectors subject to strict security and safety requirements, we provide our customers with engineering and project management services, as well as digital services and solutions to optimize the performance of complex infrastructure projects throughout their life cycle. The Group is currently ranked second in the world for nuclear engineering.
- To ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all
- Job Description
- Assystem Energy & Infrastructure are recruiting for a dynamic, self-motivated Manufacturing Engineer to work at our customers site in Derby on a contract basis.
- The Manufacturing Engineer is to support Product tooling & fixtures supporting the manufacture and delivery of the Plants
Role details
- Job title: Manufacturing Engineer
- Contract length: 12 months
- Location: Derby
- Contract type: PAYE via Umbrella solution
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to
- Product Safety - Ensure that tooling & fixtures are capable of achieving and sustaining the product design intent, and that procedures and processes are followed so that our products and those of our suppliers conform to their specification. Rigorously raise, investigate and resolve safety related issues.
- Quality - Works with all functions to reduce risk and drive product Right First Time. Ensure compliance to all relevant company, legislative and technical policies and standards including RRMS, GS3001 and Export Control and Intellectual Property requirements
- Technical Authority - Ensure application of the tooling & fixture process controls within their area of accountability, with authorisation subject to appropriate delegation.
- ·Requirements - Identify and develop opportunities for new or improved tooling & fixtures to allow manufacturing processes, digital systems and technologies to meet current or future requirements. Including the creation of Statement of Requirement (SoRs) for manufacture of tools & fixtures for the external supply chain.
- Planning - Plan and manage activities including schedule, resources and costs, gaining buy-off and communicating current status to relevant stakeholders. Ensure issues and risks are resolved to meet project timescales.
- Develop Capability - Design, introduce, validate and continuously optimise tooling & fixtures associated with both product manufacture and delivery to customer. Apply Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) principles enabling the optimal work content to be achieved during manufacture and/or across methods of manufacture whilst continuing to meet requirements for safety, quality, cost, delivery rate and lead time. Capture, analyse and use data to demonstrate and improve the current and future capability of tooling & fixtures. .
- Qualifications
Key Experience and Qualifications
- Professionally Qualified Engineer (e.g. UK minimum HNC/Foundation Degree or other national equivalent)
- Recognised national or international engineering accreditation (e.g. UK IEng or CEng)
- General understanding of manufacturing processes relevant to their business
- General awareness of Manufacturing Systems and enabling software tools relevant to the business
- Understanding of Manufacturing Engineering processes relevant to their role
- Experience in NX and tooling/fixture design is highly desirable.
- Project management experience working in a manufacturing environment, dealing with multiple customers/suppliers simultaneously, with excellent Written and Oral communication skills
Key Technical Skills
- Authoring Tooling Design Specifications
- Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
- Proficient and Experienced in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) &
- Safety Awareness, both conventional and Nuclear safety
- Understanding and interpretation of customer requirements
- Additional Information
- Please be aware that many roles at Assystem are subject to both security and export control restrictions.
- These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.
- All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting check
- We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.
- ASSYSTEM Job: Engineering / Technical
- Type of contract ASSYSTEM: Contracting
- ASSYSTEM Sector: Defence



