Engineering Intern

Location: Leicester, UK

As a Manufacturing Engineering Intern, your main responsibilities will involve:

Supporting a fast-paced manufacturing production line to maintain production throughput ensuring safety, quality and timing goals are met

Proactively identifying continuous improvements on the production line, through process monitoring and data analysis, and leading these projects to completion

Perform feasibility studies on new processes and develop existing processes with robust process controls across a portfolio of products and lifecycle phases, from initial product development planning, product launch, capacity increases and ongoing production support

Providing key input into product changes and modifications, to ensure they are designed for efficient manufacture and assembly.

Participating in cross functional teams to achieve manufacturing excellence, working with our external customers and suppliers when required

Providing Manufacturing Engineering input for process planning, change management requests, documentation changes and process validation

Develop, procure and maintain fixturing and tooling for manufacturing

Automation of processes to support faster throughput or quality improvements

To be successful in this role you will

Have strong oral and written communication skills

Have ability to solve complex technical problems

Having good interpersonal skills and be able to work independently and as part of a team

Have ability to use CAD (previous knowledge of Solidworks is an advantage) to design fixtures and analyse product designs.  Experience with drafting technical drawings and GT&D

Be curious and keen to understand different manufacturing processes, assembly techniques and have good attention to detail of components and assemblies

Be interested in driving process improvements

Be energetic and keen to succeed