Production Engineer
Production Engineer
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Job Description
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford UK with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US APAC and Europe.
Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science molecular biology and applications informatics engineering electronics manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
Oxford Nanopores sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing by anyone anywhere!
The Details...
Reporting to the Associate Director of Production Engineering and with the guidance of senior engineers youll work with our R&D and Production teams to define develop implement and support the assembly and overall Production process. Youll facilitate the development of internal and external production processes and establish and maintain production processes and quality for new products as well as improvements to existing ones. Youll always be looking for ways to develop and implement measures that improve product quality and drive cost savings.
Other duties include:
- Provide manufacturing engineering support to Engineering Design and R&D project team and coordinate transfer of new products into manufacturing considering manufacturability and efficiency of processes
- Collate and interpret data to ensure the manufacturing processes are effectively maintained to achieve consistently high yields
- Identify production problems/deficiencies and be able to use a methodical system to solve these
- Create and maintain controlled documentation such as; process flows process and tooling specifications component specifications process routers bills of materials work and inspection instructions
- Optimise the manufacturing processes - improving efficiencies reducing wastage enhancing yield and reducing cost
What Were Looking For...
Well expect you to have a degree in mechanical engineering or a similar subject and youll be apprentice trained with significant relevant industrial experience. Youll have a backgroundof production engineering within a highly regulated industry such as medical oraerospace and have worked in manual cell manufacturing where leaninitiatives have been desirable would be experience with automating and semi-automating processes for medical products. Youll have experience in establishing and validating pilot production lines as well as in performing FMEAs verifications and validations for medical devices products and processes. Alongside your strong technical background youll be a strong communicator with excellent writing skillsenabling you to create specifications processes and manufacturing documentation. Youll also be proficient in Microsoft Applications including Project Excel and Visio.
This role will suit someone who enjoys working collaboratively with others from multi-disciplinary teams likes to take a hands-on approach and is a proactive problem solver. In addition youll be encouraged to be self-sufficient and involved from day one with a very supportive and capable team behind you. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a fast-paced working environment on exciting projects with the prospect to develop your skills and experience further.
We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus generous pension contributions private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. Based within beautiful landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks water features and a lake all of which make for a wonderful working environment.
If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind then consider joining our team and apply today!
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a persons gender marital status race religion colour age disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
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Employment Type
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