REQ ID: 126951
JOB TITLE: Manufacturing Excellence Lead Engineer
SALARY: £42,000-£58,000
POSTING START DATE: 12/11/2024
POSTING END DATE: 26/11/2024

LOCATION: Halewood  

Working in Manufacturing at JLR, you'll be the hands-on expert who brings innovation to life. You'll collaborate with a team of expert technicians and problem-solvers and use cutting-edge tools, facilities, and processes engineered together to build era-defining vehicles that people across the world know and love. Your expertise will directly impact the shaping of modern luxury. Together, let’s create the exceptional. 

WHAT TO EXPECT  

This is an excellent opportunity for a Manufacturing Excellence Lead Engineer to join our Manufacturing Excellence team and contribute to JLR's Refocus 2.0 and Reimagine journey, as we transform our global Manufacturing footprint to deliver value-driven competitive results across all manufacturing technologies. 

Within this opportunity you will be a part of wider global team and lead team which is responsible for identifying opportunities to reduce cost and eliminate waste of time, money, materials, labour hours and machine time while optimising labour value, volume capacity and manufacturing strategies, across all Manufacturing technologies and JLR sites.  

Key accountabilities and responsibilities: 

• Help develop a Manufacturing Excellence plan for competitiveness across all manufacturing technologies in our worldwide operations footprint, with a focus on competitiveness objectives and key results. 

• Lead Manufacturing Excellence workshop models to identify process value streams, identify waste, and remove it through action planning. 

• Assist in training and coaching the operations teams with the necessary tool sets to make manufacturing competitiveness a natural talent, demonstrate the value of competitiveness, and guide them along the path to manufacturing excellence. 

WHAT YOU WILL NEED  

• Experience with Manufacturing/Engineering processes, tools, and techniques. 

• Knowledge and experience of the implementation of Lean Manufacturing tools, techniques and working practices.  

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills 

• Passion for continual improvement of process and technologies 

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs. 

Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome. If you’re unsure that you meet the full criteria of a role – but you're interested in where it could take you – we still encourage you to apply. We believe in people's ability to grow and develop within their role – it’s what makes living the exceptional with soul possible.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.