Production management 

• Coordinate production articles on the shop floor, ensuring timely progress through each stage of the manufacturing process. 

• Coordinate and support operators working on NPI articles, helping them understand priorities and resolve daytoday issues. 

• Monitor work-in-progress, anticipate bottlenecks and escalate issues promptly to keep delivery on track. 

• Support planning and scheduling activities by providing clear, accurate status updates from the line. 

Sustaining and continuous improvement 

• Capture and maintain lessons learned from day-to-day issues to prevent repeat problems and speed up product maturation. 

• Participate in structured problemsolving activities (for example with ME, Quality and Operations) to improve throughput, yield and cycle time. 

• Help implement process improvements on the shop floor, ensuring changes are practical, clearly communicated and consistently followed. 

• Collect and organise shop-floor data (such as defects, rework and downtime) to support ME and Quality in rootcause analysis. 

Design for manufacturability and ME support 

• Provide shop-floor feedback to Manufacturing and Design Engineering on buildability, tooling, ergonomics and process robustness. 

• Support trial builds and process proveouts, ensuring operators have the information, tools and support they need. 

• Assist in refining the sequence of operations for lowvolume prototype parts, checking that the sequence is workable in practice. 

• Create and maintain clear work instructions and visual aids, documenting safe, ergonomic and repeatable processes. 

• Support Manufacturing Engineers with basic tasks such as updating routings or work instructions, collecting process data and trialling minor process changes under guidance. 

Leadership and collaboration 

• Provide day-to-day coordination and guidance to operators on NPI work, supporting them in prioritising tasks and following standard work. 

• Foster collaboration across Operations, EHS, Planning and Quality to remove blockers and maintain Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC) performance. 

• Share best practices with colleagues and encourage a culture of safe, disciplined execution. 

• Reinforce good housekeeping and standard work, ensuring the area is always auditready. 

Compliance and documentation 

• Maintain a safe and compliant work area, consistently following and reinforcing regulatory and internal procedures. 

• Identify and escalate safety and quality concerns quickly to the appropriate teams (EHS, Quality, ME) and support corrective actions. 

• Contribute to identifying equipment and training needs for new product introductions, working with ME, EHS and Training. 

• Support the maintenance of safety documentation and checklists on the line, ensuring operators understand and follow them. 

Qualifications / Requirements 

• Minimum Level 3 qualification, or equivalent relevant experience, in an engineering, manufacturing, or technical discipline. 

• Experience as a skilled operator, technician or team member in a manufacturing environment (aerospace, composites or precision machining desirable). 

• Previous experience coordinating work or supporting colleagues on the shop floor is beneficial. 

• Demonstrated ability to follow and support manufacturing processes, solve practical shopfloor issues and contribute to improvements in throughput, quality and availability. 

• Comfortable using basic production data (for example counts, scrap, rework) to support decisions. 

• A selfstarter who is comfortable working with limited supervision, can spot issues early and takes ownership to drive them to resolution. 

• Enjoys working in a hands-on, shop-floor environment and leading by example. 

Desired Skills 

• Exposure to New Product Introduction (NPI) processes and/or production planning. 

• Familiarity with problemsolving methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, 8D or Red X, and basic APQP concepts. 

• Experience with composite processes (CFRP/RTM) and/or hightolerance machined parts. 

• Awareness of 3D printing or rapid prototyping tools and part production. 

• Experience working in highly regulated industries (aviation preferred but not essential). 

• Understanding of line balancing and operator efficiency, and how layout and work content affect flow.