Enigma People Solutions is recruiting a New Product Introduction Engineer for a global leader in the manufacture of laser products based in Glasgow, Scotland (relocation assistance available).
Join a friendly professional company with an outstanding work environment and great staff facilities including an excellent on-site cafeteria within a modern building. Enjoy a great work-life balance with flexible core hours which provide the opportunity to start your weekend early. Receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes contributory pension scheme, subsidised private health care and free life assurance.
Our client develops laser systems that help people and are used in a wide variety of markets including renewable energy, microelectronics, fundamental research, life sciences and medicine. Consistent strong growth over the past ten years, even through times of global economic slowdown has lead to a healthy product development pipeline which is enabling existing and future growth generating exciting opportunities for personal and career growth in the years to come.
About the role
Reporting into Engineering, this role is for a New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineer to work as part of the design and development team on cutting-edge laser products. As NPI engineer you will work alongside the mechanical and optical development team to ensure design for manufacturing remains a key focus during the development cycle of laser systems. Through Prototype and Pilot production you will provide DFX feedback, aid the design team in resolving issues, supply documentation, tooling and training to allow the product to be built in a clean manufacturing environment. You will ensure compliance of the product to specification and test products through HALT/HASS to identify weaknesses and drive changes. With a focus on manufacturability, you will help contribute to the development of new processes and capabilities and assist with the adoption of automation and new technologies to ensure repeatability and reliability in the laser build process. You will have responsibility for achievement of both personal and team-based goals delivering project focused outputs. You will be able to adapt quickly to changing requirements and understand critical needs and prioritise tasks and workload.
Responsibilities will include:
• A hands-on approach to work is key, with direct engagement with the manufacturing team to understand and resolve issues on the line.
• Lab based work to test and define process and optimise designs, such as full system environmental testing, component improvement, and material selection and testing (e.g., adhesives, desiccant etc.) to identify weakness and drive improvements.
• Building prototype and pilot laser systems
• Defining, testing and implementing production tooling
• Ownership of the transfer of new laser products from design engineering into manufacturing ensuring build documentation, bill of materials, tooling and training are present and valid.
• Monitoring Prototype and Pilot production ensuring yields and cycle times are within expectation and identifying improvement opportunities where they are not.
• Influencing designs and design engineers to ensure Lean / six-sigma principles are considered.
• Influencing design to ensure design for manufacturing is incorporated.
• Leading design FMEA of modules to ensure right first-time designs.
• Interfacing with Operations team – all aspects including planning, quality, manufacturing etc. to ensure the smooth transition of products from development to production.
• Interfacing with subcontractors and suppliers.
• Liaising with field service to gather customer validation data.
• Helping to maintain the lab and standards of the lab space.
• Defining GUIs and automation routines to facilitate manufacturing flow.
• Creation of whole laser system and sub-system build documentation.
To be of interest you will be able to demonstrate the following:
Essential Skills
• Experience in a high-tech manufacturing environment.
• Degree in science, technology or engineering, or equivalent industrial experience.
• A passion for solving problems, continuous improvement with an enthusiasm to drive positive change.
• Willingness to take responsibility for improvement actions.
• Initiative to seek innovative solutions to problems.
• Excellent communication and people skills.
• Ability to learn quickly – it is expected you will be a hands-on person and will be expected to learn quickly the fundamentals of lasers and how to build and operate them
Preferred Additional Skills
• Knowledge of the New Product Introduction (NPI) process and elements of project planning.
• Experience of product transfer from design engineering into manufacturing.
• Experience of using PLM software (Agile or similar).
• Cleanroom experience.
• Knowledge of lasers, optics, electronics and opto-mechanics.
• Experience with optical fibre handling.
• Experience of LabVIEW, Python, C/C# or other object-oriented programming language.
• Experience with Solidworks or another CAD package.
• An understanding of LEAN and six sigma methodologies.
• Experience creating work instructions.
• Experience using structure problem solving tools