Production Engineer

About us

For over 30 years, Surgical Innovations have proudly designed, developed and manufactured high quality, precision engineered instruments for minimally invasive surgery and are a leading UK manufacturer of medical devices in its respective field.

Our success is our people and we currently employ over 100 staff from our head office in Leeds. We place great value on our mutually respective relationships, a workplace which is collaborative and dynamic, and a culture which is inclusive and purposeful. The result; a platform for individual development, growth, and prosperity.

As we seek to identify, nurture, and retain talent, we offer competitive benefits packages, continuous training and development opportunities to ensure those joining us on our journey, grow too!

Do you want to be part of an organisation that is leading the evolution in delivering sustainable and innovate solutions which advance healthcare? If so, we want to hear from committed and talented people like you, who share our vision and values to come and join our team.

About the Position

Reporting to the Manufacturing Engineering Manager, this role involves working as part of a small engineering team, and will focus primarily on Production engineering, working in collaboration with the Quality Engineers within the team.

The Production Engineer’s purpose is to develop the processes to continually improve, delivering productivity and efficiency, whilst ensuring safety standards and medical devices compliance are maintained. The role is also responsible for developing new Manufacturing processes as part of the new product introduction process.

Production Engineers are responsible for working on multiple projects simultaneously within the business and often requires the individual to work as part of a cross functional team.

Responsibilities

Health and Safety
Ensuring relevant health and safety is followed and that all work complies with safety legislation and site policies
Reporting of hazards, unsafe conditions, and near misses .
Ensure all equipment and process introductions are compliant to legislation (CE Mark) and have a valid risk assessment
Ensure any chemicals purchased have a COSHH assessment before use.

Continuous Improvement Projects
Identify opportunities for improvement, with a focus on improving process robustness to prevent the recurrence of issues.
Define project scope, objectives and justification
Execute project within agreed budgets and time scales

Existing Processes
Ensure any process changes are correctly documented through the appropriate CCF and that all associated documents are updated (Process Flow, PFMEA, Work Instruction, Route Card etc)
Responsibility for implementation of CAPA, NCR & Customer Complaint actions
Analyse process performance and barriers to identify opportunities for Continuous improvement
Utilise structured problem solving to identify the route causes of issues and implement robust solutions

Process Validation
Agree Process validation plans with the Quality Engineer and execute the validation plans to demonstrate process capability

New Product / Process Introduction
Participate in Concept & design reviews to ensure design for manufacture opportunities are capitalised on
Design processes with a high degree of Poke Yoke
Execute project within agreed budgets and time scale

Quality
Ensure that CAPA, CCF and Customer complaint procedures are followed and that actions are implemented in a timely manner
Fully support the Quality Systems Team regarding all finished goods, in process and supplier complaints and non-conformity investigations, providing technical expertise to establish root cause and deliver suitable corrective actions.

Requirements

Essential
HND or Degree in relevant Engineering discipline
Experience working in a manufacturing environment
Experience in product & process validation
Organised & self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities
Excellent written & verbal communication skills with high level of IT knowledge

Desirable
Experience of precision manufacturing or injection moulding
Lean 6 sigma qualification
CAD experience
Experience in surgical products

What we offer

This role offers a competitive salary in the region of £35,000 (negotiable dependent on experience) and a range of benefits including a 9-day working fortnight (every second Friday off), pension, bonus scheme, life assurance, income protection, health cash plan, perkbox, and free parking.

If this sounds interesting and the right challenge for you, we look forward to receiving your application!