Production Engineer
Westhill, Aberdeen  
Permanent position 

About Us:
James Fisher is a global engineering services company. From our origins as a ship owner and operator, we’ve evolved to provide the expertise and innovative technology our customers need in the harshest of environments across Energy, Defence and Maritime Transport.

The Defence Division provides underwater systems and life support capabilities, for the defence and commercial diving markets.

The Role:
To improve workplace efficiency and eliminate waste within the production environment. Develop strategies to improve efficiency and diagnose problems, train staff and provide effective recommendations.
To accurately manage Glovia structures and routings for all products to maximize production efficiently and financial accountability.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Challenge Current Methods and processes to improve on cost, quality and time taken.
• Able to determine all manufacturing processes required to manufacture a product
• Use of continuous improvement and root cause analysis techniques such as 5Y, FMEA & fish bone.
• Look to reduce time in set up and run time and feed improvements back into the ERP system.
• Implement improvements to manufacturing process – 5s, Lean manufacturing etc.
• Co-ordinate R&D / Development projects into production.
• Review Glovia structures and routings to create work orders in a timely manner to meet workshop requirements.
• Maintaining data entry applications to ensure system information is up to date.
• Coordination of w/o processing on major/new products to ensure efficient flow through the system from point of order to delivery and report to project manager where required.

Who are we looking for?
You will need to demonstrate a genuine interest in improving and developing the business workshop procedures.
Influence others by adapting your, identifying a basis for compromise in order to reach agreements between all parties.
Generating innovative solutions in work situation and trying different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities.
Continually strive to improve and meet standards of excellence.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Ideally qualified, with experience of manufacturing / production, in an engineering / production workshop environment.
• Experienced in RCCA (Root Cause & Corrective Action)
• Lean, 6SIGMA Green belt (minimum) accreditation and experience
• Trained in PFMEA.
• Knowledge in 5S methodology
• Possess a high level of competency with ERP/MRP systems
• Experience working with ISO 9001 Standards
• Must be able to read and interpret engineering drawings
• Good IT Skills, Experienced in MS Office
• Ability to analyse and interpret data

*This role will be based at our Westhill location in Aberdeen therefore you will need to live within a commutable distance to this location.

Due to the volume of applications that we receive for our vacancies, on occasion applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

James Fisher & Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and we strongly encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and as a Disability Confident employer we are committed to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

James Fisher and Sons plc, are proud to be partnered with the Career Transition Partnership, the official provider of Armed Forces resettlement for over 20 years.