Manufacturing Engineer

Location – Malvern – Full time - On site

Role benefits – Competitive Salary + 25 days holiday + Bonus + Pension and more

About the role

Are you passionate about solving complex challenges and driving innovation in manufacturing? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, international environment where your ideas and expertise make a real impact? We’re a dynamic and ambitious company with a friendly, inclusive culture and we’re looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to join our team in Malvern, UK. In this role, you'll be at the heart of improving and evolving our precision manufacturing processes. If you take pride in enhancing production systems, increasing efficiency, and ensuring quality at every step, this is your opportunity to play a key part in our growth story.

What you will bring to the role:

• Management of multiple manufacturing related projects and investigations of varying length and complexity.
• Resolve engineering challenges to production targets using structured problem-solving tools like A3PS, 8D and DMAIC.
• Maintain and control manufacturing processes using lean tools including Standard Operating Procedures, Bills of Materials (BOMs), Control Plans, Value Stream Maps, Kanban, and Process Failure Mode Effect Analyses (PFMEAs).
• Drive, validate and implement changes to product design with a focus on quality and manufacturability, to make sure that both new and existing products can be made, assembled, and tested to the right specifications.
• Improve Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in your technology through targeted projects and communicate project progress to key stakeholders in production and the wider business.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across the business to improve safety, quality and delivery of our market leading products.
• Support other operational teams to ensure that we can get the parts we need to make our products to the standard our customers want.
• Liaise with suppliers and our supplier quality team to resolve quality or delivery issues, as well as support supplier validation and reallocation processes.
• Own and develop cell and line layout and workstation design to make our processes the best and easiest they can be.
• Support of M&A activity through process transfer.
• Resource management and budgeting.

About you:

• Degree in Engineering or Manufacturing (2:1 or above preferred), with 5+ years of experience in a similar role.
• Strong understanding of mechanical and electrical engineering principles, and enthusiasm for manufacturing processes.
• Hands-on approach to solving complex engineering/manufacturing problems.
• Ability to balance immediate production support with long-term process improvements.
• Proven experience as a LEAN practitioner with a full Six Sigma toolset.
• Ability to gather, interpret, and present data from multiple sources to drive continuous improvement.
• Effective at managing your own workload and supporting others.
• Comfortable working across multidisciplinary teams in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Experience in high-tech manufacturing or assembly, MES systems (e.g. Visual Factory), SAP/ERP, PLM/ECN, and CAD/PCB design.
• Knowledge of manufacturing transfer, modern manufacturing vision, and holding a UK driving licence are advantageous.

Why you should join us:

• Be a part of an ambitious, fast-growing, international company with a friendly and inclusive culture.
• Drive growth within a leading global organisation whose purpose is to work with our customers, to make the world a better place.
• Be a key member of our team in our amazing offices.
• Gym discounts, Volunteering days and much more.

About us - Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps. Together we are a powerful and highly complementary combination of market leading technologies. We are the toolmakers for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories. We are their partners in discovery.

Malvern Panalytical instruments analyze the chemical, physical and structural nature of materials, from proteins to polymers and semiconductors to minerals. Our leading technologies measure particle size, shape, concentration and zeta potential, biomolecular interactions and stability, elemental concentrations and crystallographic structure.

Micromeritics manufactures systems for the characterization of particles, powders, and porous materials for a wide range of end markets including catalysts, chemicals, building materials, clean-tech and battery. Our leading technologies measure surface area, porosity, density, adsorption and particle activity.

SciAps specializes in portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF), laser-based (LIBS) and near-infrared (NIR) analyzers to measure any element in any environment. SciAps is the Center of Excellence for our handheld instruments.

We have a global footprint with R&D and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, and Asia. We are more than 2,500 employees in a customer-focused organization with sales and service offices in 20 countries, all committed to delivering expert and responsive customer support.

We are part of Spectris. Spectris combines precision with purpose, delivering progress for a more sustainable world. Precision is at the heart of what we do – our leading, high-tech instruments and software equip our customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive.

Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics & SciAps Your Partners in Discovery. Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps, part of the Spectris Group, are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and achieve a fulfilling career. Changing the world isn’t something you can do on your own, or with a single way of thinking; it takes a wide collection of experiences, stories, knowledge, and expertise. We encourage applications from underrepresented individuals and people with diverse backgrounds. Although we always select the most qualified applicant for each role and make all decisions without regard to race, sex, age, or any other protected class, we are an inclusive, equal opportunity organization that prizes diversity. Your unique perspective is important to us.