Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer

Job Description

Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer – Livingston, Scotland

Position Duration: Permanent • Full Time (37 hours per week) • Onsite (Livingston, with some travel to Glenrothes).

Security Clearance: Baseline – Must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship.

Overview

Raytheon UK (an RTX company) is a leading defence and aerospace company based in the UK. This role offers you the opportunity to work on critical military products, advance your career, and engage in innovative manufacturing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement robust/repeatable manufacturing processes.
• Ownership and responsibility of process/equipment throughout the Product Value Stream.
• Conduct Design for Excellence (DfX) analysis and collaborate with Design teams.
• Identify, expedite, and/or escalates any quality or performance issues.
• Achieve On Time Delivery targets.
• Use manufacturing data and analysis techniques to proactively identify and address issues, driving systemic root cause/corrective action.
• Report and maintain Process/Equipment Engineering metrics, track performance & yields against team KPIs and individual goals & objectives.
• Drive continuous improvements through Best in Class and World Class Manufacturing principles.

Qualifications

• High-performance engineer and self-starter.
• Strong knowledge of electronics manufacturing processes across a wide range of technologies and production platforms (CCA, HLA, etc.).
• Experience in a high reliability electronic assembly environment (Defense / Medical / Aerospace). Commercial Electronics background also encouraged.
• Demonstrated contribution to specific improvements in production program effectiveness, efficiency and optimisation.
• Ability to lead/participate in process FMEA, Control Plan, Process flow development, review and risk mitigation processes.
• Experience with SPC, OEE, ESD, COSHH & risk assessment.
• Understanding of 6Sigma (or equivalent methodology) and Lean manufacturing principles.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).
• Familiarity with IPC A 610 guidelines (including recent revision updates).
• Minimum of HNC in an electronics-related subject (HND/Degree preferred). Relevant industry experience considered.

Desirable but not Essential

• Experience supporting processes such as Stencil design, Screen printing, Jet dispensing, SPI, SMT placement, Reflow oven profiling, AOI, AXI, MXI, PTH, Selective/Wave Solder, Wet processes, Underfill, rework processes.

What we Offer

• Competitive salary.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, with the option to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr).
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• Six times salary Life Assurance with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice options (Health Cashplan, Dental, Cycle to Work).
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including maternity, paternity and shared parental leave.
• 37hr working week (hours may vary per role/site).
• Remote, hybrid and site based working options depending on role and site.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, not hours.
• Up to 5 paid days of volunteering each year.

Additional Information

Successful hire will be a permanent UK resident and will complete a baseline BPSS security and background check.

Equal Employment Opportunity

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.