Fibre Process Lead Engineer in Farnborough

Company Overview

TISICS is a small management-owned business with material and processing technology that is of potential future benefit primarily to the Space and Aerospace sectors. The company designs and manufactures net shape metal and continuous silicon carbide fibre reinforced composite components comprising titanium and aluminium alloys. Our advanced materials offer significant advantages both to the Aerospace sector in reducing the weight of platforms for environmental benefit and to the Space sector with rapid growth in communications, climate and planetary exploration applications. In order to address these exciting market developments and increased customer interest in our technology, we are growing and looking for motivated and inspiring people to join the team.

The role of Fibre Process Lead Engineer is to provide operational leadership within our Fibre Plant. The plant supplies ceramic fibre to help develop products for the Aerospace and Space markets based on the TISICS metal matrix composites. Products include but are not limited to structural components, pressure vessels, and liquid propellant tanks. We handle a variety of different material types.

• Fibre (Silicon Carbide, Alumina Ceramic, Carbon Coating, and Tungsten Core, plus a variety of chemicals and gases involved in the manufacturing process)
• Composites with the fibre and a variety of matrix materials (Titanium, Aluminium) and tooling, which is primarily steel based.

We use some novel manufacturing methods using diffusion bonding and also including dissimilar material joining. This role combines both a hands-on element in developing and improving the plant operating processes as well as providing operational leadership to the fibre plant team.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Process engineering leadership within the Fibre Plant Reporting to the Fibre Process Manager.
• Assessing industrial processes and taking measurements and data.
• Developing practices, routines and solutions to help improve productivity, throughput and quality.
• Designing and running process simulations, performing risk assessment testing to eliminate time and cost constraints.
• Preparing process documentation and operating instructions.
• Overseeing and assessing new and existing processes and workflows.
• Devising, implementing and testing new strategies to help optimise productivity.
• Analysing data to discover areas that need improvements and upgrades.
• Assessing compliance and adherence to safety and quality standards and reporting to higher management about findings and proposals.
• Exploring ways to improve the manufacturing process environmental sustainability.
• Overseeing operational quality control processes.
• Liaising with suppliers, customers and project teams.
• Establishing a production reliability compatible with external commercial fibre sales.
• Leading the fibre plant team of material science experts, facility build and maintenance engineers and operators.

Qualifications and Skills

• Qualified to degree level (BEng/BSc) in a relevant subject.
• More than 5 years industrial experience in process engineering, chemical engineering, or a related field.
• Experience preferred in process simulations and standard operating procedure assessments.
• Proven experience working with engineering software packages such as Solidworks.
• Experience in conducting research and laboratory testing.
• Understanding of inspection and testing processes gained through industrial experience.
• Demonstrated technical leadership.
• Experience of PLC control systems and their development.
• An understanding of chemical processes including chemical storage systems, flow control, pressurised systems and waste chemical management.
• A strong understanding of safe operating practices and associated process control and operating instruction development.

What we can offer:

• Competitive salary: negotiable, depending on specific experience and qualifications relevant to the role.
• Retirement Plan: Pension scheme to help secure your future.
• 20 days holiday + bank holidays.

Want to hear more about what it's like to work at TISICS? Reach out to our team on talent@tisics.co.uk.

The candidate shall be eligible to work in the UK and hold a Skilled Workers visa, if required. For all successful candidates, TISICS will undertake background security checks. As part of this, we will need to confirm your identity, employment history and address history to cover the past five years as well as your nationality, immigration status and criminal record.

For further information about this position please contact us and we will endeavour to get back to you as soon as possible.