Rewards and Benefits on Offer;

* Competitive salary

* Death in service benefit with 1 x annual salary to dependants

* 33 days hols including BH

* Free parking

* Immediate start.

Working Hours:

* 7.15am to 4pm Mon to Thurs,

* Friday 7.30am to 12pm

* Hoping to move toward 4-day week in 2026

MTrec's New Opportunity;

MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious engineering client, based in Sunderland with their plans for growth and expansion, by recruiting a permanent Manufacturing Engineer to join their team. You will be joining a fast-paced, dynamic company, with an excellent team-based culture and huge opportunities to progress your career. You will be joining a very secure and expanding business, where you will enjoy a varied working environment and great team culture.

If you have experience as a Manufacturing Engineer or similar, please apply now for an immediate response.

The Job You'll Do;

* Evaluate current production activities and make recommendations for improvements. This may involve conducting time and motion studies on new and existing processes

* Evaluate manufacturing processes by designing and conducting research programs; applying knowledge of product design, fabrication, assembly, tooling, and materials; conferring with equipment vendors; soliciting observations from operators.

* Seek quotes for prices of component parts, services or machines which achieve the objectives listed above.

* Improve manufacturing efficiency by analysing and planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout.

* Responsible for producing factory lay-out and floorplan reflecting the desired process flow paths, using AutoCAD or similar

* Responsible for maintaining work centres, cost centres and machine capacity available times on ERP

* Analyse factory output and operator efficiencies to improve output

* Maintain company standard times for future costing and current efficiency output

* Identify factory bottlenecks to increase throughput

* Analyse idle times and advise on improvements [Line balancing]

* Where appropriate, provide training and guidance to team members to accomplish production goals.

* With the Production Management Team, develop best practices to improve production capacity, quality and reliability.

* Trouble shoot production concerns and facilitate cross functional teams to lead and implement improvements required by determining root cause, developing solutions and finally leading implementation.

* Prepare product and process reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing information and trends.

About You;

* Minimum of 3 years working in a manufacturing/production/industrial engineering role.

* CAD and experience of Standardised Working is essential.

* Understanding of Lean Manufacturing principles ( desirable)

* Commercial awareness

* The ability to work well under pressure within an agreed timeline.

* Problem-solving skills & IT skills